Senior Engineer Implementations - Storage & VMWare

Looking for a job where things change rapidly but without chaos? Do you want to have the ability to work with new and bleeding edge technology on a project-based fashion without running into the death by process trap?

Stop looking and join Sentia’s Implementations organization!

So tell me, what is this all about?

• You will be designing and implementing complex, customer-specific environments
• You will transition environments towards your Operations colleagues by transferring knowledge about the respective environment
• Together with your project management colleagues you might take the technical lead during projects
• You will be participating in an on-call set-up, for that small set of service-down issues that pop-up once in a while
• You are considered as “the internal knowledge base” due to your expertise and contextual knowledge of the environments you built here and in your past experience
• You will be training the team on your expertise, you take pride in letting others grow
• You will be considered as an important stakeholder supporting our R&D engineers
• You will be supporting complex migrations from analysis to execution using your critical and experienced mindset
• You might be supporting your pre-sales colleagues as they run into new technology requests from our customers to help assess operational sustainability
• You are expected to regularly decompress and maybe even play some ping pong

What do we want from you?

• Advanced knowledge of the following: NetApp storage systems, its architecture and its associated suite of products, VMWare's ESXi server and its associated suite of products, Use of API's and Scripting tools. 
• Advanced knowledge on one or more of the following storage concepts: Protocols NFS, CIFS, iSCSI, Fibre-channel. Data protection or storage types: RAID, RAIN, HCU, CAS.
• Advanced knowledge on one of the following essential platform supporting technologies: Snapshotting, replication, storage efficiency, NDMP, logical storage constructions, networking, access management. 
• Advanced knowledge about IO distribution, RAID penalties, high availability, redundant storage networks.
• Troubleshooting expertise related to performance impact using available tools: Clustered Ontap – Oncommand Software / CLI / Grafana / ASUP, Vmware ESXi / Vcenter
• Knowledge of one of the following: Clustering technologies, Storage integration at the host level (Linux, Windows & VMware) including multi-pathing design and configuration for the respective storage protocols
• Knowledge of alternative storage vendors and solutions such as NimbleStorage, Dell, EMC, Solidfire
• You understand the OSI layer model and have a basic understanding of networking

You have at least 4 years of relevant experience in one of the above-mentioned concepts and technologies

Your personality

• You have a passion for technology and eager to learn
• You are a team player and can adapt to new situations
• You have a critical and analytical mindset and are a walking “lessons learned”
• You are a go-getter and are not afraid to pull in additional people when needed
• You are concise and result-driven (read: get things done)
• Operating under pressure give you a “been there, seen that” feeling which reflects itself in tranquility
• You are flexible; if needed you jump in to help the team
• You believe creativity, motivation, integrity, and teamwork are important values

We offer

• A no-nonsense, open culture where we promote new ideas and value your contribution
• A tailored career path so you can continue to grow your competences and knowledge
• Multiple teambuilding events during the year and Happy Friday @ the office