Storage Engineer

Job Title: EMC Dell Storage Engineer Location: 100% Remote Employment: W2 Job Description: Required Qualifications - 5+ years of dedicated enterprise storage engineering experience, with at least 3+ years specifically focused on Dell EMC platforms. Dell EMC NAS Expertise: Deep technical knowledge of PowerScale/Isilon (OneFS) architecture. Experience with SmartPools, SmartQuotas, SyncIQ, InsightIQ, and DataIQ. Object Storage Expertise: Proven experience deploying and managing Dell EMC ECS (Elastic Cloud Storage). Strong understanding of object-based architectures, buckets, namespaces, and geo-replication. Protocol Proficiency: Advanced understanding of file and object protocols, including NFS (v3/v4), SMB/CIFS, and S3 API. Networking & Systems: Strong grasp of storage networking concepts (TCP/IP, DNS, VLANs, LACP) and directory services integration (Active Directory, LDAP, Kerberos). Analytical Skills: Excellent problem-solving skills with the ability to analyze complex system logs and performance metrics. Preferred Qualifications - Experience with other Dell EMC storage arrays (PowerMax, VPLEX) or SAN switches (Brocade, Cisco MDS). Familiarity with hybrid-cloud storage tiering (e.g., CloudPools tiering to AWS/Azure/GCP). Experience with infrastructure-as-code and configuration management tools (Ansible, Terraform). Scripting proficiency in Python, PowerShell, or Bash.