Storage Solutions Specialist - BGC

Position:                   Storage Solutions Specialist

Work Location:       BGC, Taguig

Required Skills & Experience:

• At least 5-yrs Systems, Storage, and cloud experiences(Cloud Engineering) in HPE, IBM, Dell EMC, Hitachi Vantara, NetApp, Cisco UCS, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform.
• Vendor certified on technologies as EMC, IBM, HP, Netapp, Cisco, Juniper and similar brands
• Hand-on experience with various OS (Microsoft Windows, AIX, Solaris, Redhat) and virtualised platforms (VMware ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V, KVM, AIX LPAR, Solaris LDOM and Container)
• Strong knowledge of backup and archival solution such as Veritas, Dell EMC Networker/Avamar/PowerProtect, EMC Data Domain, Veeam, Acronis, Arcserve, etc.  HPE, IBM, Dell EMC, Hitachi Vantara, NetApp, Cisco UCS, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform.
• Good knowledge in virtualization and cloud (IaaS) technology
• Customer service oriented, good team player, technically inclined
• Must be effective in working both independently and in a team setting.

Our clients take the certification level of our technical personnel seriously, therefore we will gives higher preference to applicants who are vendor certified on technologies as EMC, IBM, HP, Netapp, Cisco, Juniper and similar brands.

Desired Skills & Certifications (preferred):

• MCSE/MCITP
• Server (Dell EMC, IBM, HPE, Cisco UCS)
• Storage (Dell EMC, Hitachi Vantara)
• Backup (Veritas NetBackup, Veritas Backup Exec, EMC Networker, Veeam)
• AWS Solution Architect Associate, Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert,
• Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect
• Vmware certification
• Working knowledge of Active Directory
• Working knowledge of Oracle DB, MySQL, etc.
• Familiar with different product licensing schemes

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide expert technical pre-sales support for opportunities involving servers, storage, backup, and cloud solution.
• Early engagement with customer in selling servers, storage, backup, and cloud solution.
• Understand and gather customer requirements and offer complete & cost-effective solution.
• Prepare solution writeup, bill of material and engage Service Delivery team for professional effort.
• Ensure the completeness of technical terms and conditions.
• Conduct/Lead in technical presentation and clarification
• Identify project risk (technical & execution) and provide mitigation measures.
• Integrate servers, storage, backup, and cloud centric solution with support from other competency presales solutions consultant.
• Upon contract award, conduct transition/ handover and briefing to project implementation team on the overall solution & design.
• Keep abreast of product technology and certifications.
• Keep updated of the latest technology and develop technical capability slides.
• Attain selected product/technology certifications to maintain our premium partnership status with product principals.
• Conduct in-house technology sharing to fellow peers.