Sr. Storage Engineer

Role: Sr. Storage Engineer

Client: Gordon and Rees LLP

6- Months Contract to Hire

Location: Walnut Creek, CA 2-3 days onsite (LOCAL ONLY)

Rate: $75-85/hr C2C Conversion Salary: $130,000-150,000

Visas Accepted: H4EAD, GCEAD, USC, GC only!

Must Have (these should be on the resume, otherwise will be tagged as NQ)

Atleast 10 years of experience

Strong experience in Nimble Storage (Now HPE Nimble Storage) and Cohesity

Storage Systems: Experience with SAN (Storage Area Networks), NAS (Network Attached Storage), and DAS (Direct Attached Storage).

Storage Protocols: Knowledge of Fiber Channel (FC), iSCSI, NFS, CIFS/SMB, and Object Storage (S3).

Storage Hardware & Vendors: Hands-on experience with technologies from vendors like NetApp, Dell EMC, Cohesity, HPE, etc.

Cloud Storage: Understanding of AWS S3, Azure Blob Storage, Google Cloud Storage, and hybrid cloud storage integration. * A plus*

Storage Virtualization: Experience with VMware vSAN, IBM SVC, or other virtualization solutions. *A MUST*

Storage Performance Tuning: Understanding of RAID levels, SSD/HDD performance differences, IOPS, latency, and throughput optimization.

Capacity Planning & Monitoring: Familiarity with tools like Splunk, or vendor-specific monitoring solutions.

Data Security: Knowledge of encryption (at rest/in transit), access control, and storage security best practices.

Regulatory Compliance: Familiarity with HIPAA, GDPR, PCI-DSS, and other data protection standards.

Troubleshooting: Ability to diagnose storage performance issues and system failures.

Collaboration: Experience working with DevOps, Networking, and Security teams to design and implement storage solutions.

Project Management: Participation in storage migrations, upgrades, or disaster recovery planning