Job Description
Title: Storage Engineer
Location: Salt Lake City, UT or NJ/NY Area
Work Model: 100% Onsite (5 days/week in office)
Duration: Long Term Contract
Focus Area: Product Engineering, Testing & Certification (Primary focus on engineering over operational support)
Role Overview
We are seeking an experienced Storage Engineer to focus on product evaluation, testing, engineering, and code certification. The ideal candidate will have strong experience in enterprise-level block storage, data protection solutions, and fabric switches, alongside an engineering mindset focused on DevOps practices, SRE principles, and multi-OS performance profiling.
Key Responsibilities
Basic Qualifications (Required)
Location: Salt Lake City, UT or NJ/NY Area
Work Model: 100% Onsite (5 days/week in office)
Duration: Long Term Contract
Focus Area: Product Engineering, Testing & Certification (Primary focus on engineering over operational support)
Role Overview
We are seeking an experienced Storage Engineer to focus on product evaluation, testing, engineering, and code certification. The ideal candidate will have strong experience in enterprise-level block storage, data protection solutions, and fabric switches, alongside an engineering mindset focused on DevOps practices, SRE principles, and multi-OS performance profiling.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead product evaluation, testing, engineering, and code certification for enterprise storage and backup infrastructure.
- Follow and deliver Product Development Life Cycle (PDLC) documentation as part of the formal evaluation and certification process.
- Tune and profile I/O and network stacks across Linux/UNIX and Windows environments.
- Design and implement SRE principles (SLI/SLO, synthetic probers, user journeys) to ensure reliable service delivery using resilient architecture.
- Collaborate using DevOps methodologies and version control systems.
Basic Qualifications (Required)
- Enterprise Storage Experience: Current or recent experience working in an enterprise-level storage environment.
- Core Product Expertise:
- Hands-on experience with Pure Storage FlashArray block storage products.
- Experience with Rubrik r6000 series data protection products.
- Experience with Brocade G-series fabric switch products.
- Systems & Tuning: Competency in Windows and Linux/UNIX-like operating systems, including I/O/network stack tuning and performance profiling.
- Documentation & Process: Proven capability to produce formal PDLC-type documentation.
- DevOps & SRE:
- Familiarity with version control systems (GitLab, SVN).
- Familiarity with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles (user journeys, SLIs/SLOs, synthetic probers).
- Core Competencies: Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills with an ability to adapt quickly to new technologies.
- Engineering Focus: Background heavily weighted toward Product Engineering, Product Testing, and Code Certification rather than day-to-day operational support.
- Hybrid Cloud: Experience engineering and operating hybrid cloud delivery models with emphasis on data coherency between on-premise and off-premise systems.
- Scripting: Proficiency in PowerShell, Python, Bash, or other scripting languages with a focus on testing and sound SDLC practices.
- Hyperscalers & Virtualization: Familiarity with AWS, GCP, Azure, and ESXi hypervisors.
- Storage Systems: Dell/Hitachi block storage; NetApp/Dell Unity file storage.
- Backup Solutions: EMC NetWorker, Data Domain.
- Observability: Elasticsearch and Kibana (ELK stack).
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Salt Lake City, IL |
| Industry | Computer/IT Services |
| Salary | $45–$50 Per Hour |
| Company Size | 500 to 999 employees |
| Website | https://www.apolisrises.com/ |
Benefits
Paid Sick Days, Employee Referral Program, Employee Events, Retirement / Pension Plans
About Company
Since 1996, RJT has provided successful SAP, Oracle, and IT consulting solutions and staffing services to clients around the world. The new Apolis brings you the same personalized service fortified with a greater array of IT solutions, global expertise, and cost-management strategies.
We are a global IT consultancy that seamlessly integrates experts and leading-edge solutions into your organization so you can focus on what really matters.
Skills
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)unmatched
- Analysis Skillsunmatched
- Bash Scriptingunmatched
- Certification Evaluationunmatched
- Cisco Unityunmatched
- Data Migrationunmatched
- Data Storageunmatched
- Dell Computersunmatched
- DevOpsunmatched
- Documentationunmatched
- EMC NetWorker (fka Legato NetWorker)unmatched
- Elasticsearchunmatched
- GCP (Good Clinical Practices)unmatched
- Hybrid Cloudunmatched
- Hypervisorsunmatched
- Identify Issuesunmatched
- Information/Data Security (InfoSec)unmatched
- Input/Outputunmatched
- Linux Operating Systemunmatched
- Microsoft Windows Azureunmatched
- Microsoft Windows Operating Systemunmatched
- NetApp Storage Systemsunmatched
- Operating Systemsunmatched
- Operational Supportunmatched
- Performance Tuning/Optimizationunmatched
- Problem Solving Skillsunmatched
- Process Capabilityunmatched
- Product Developmentunmatched
- Product Engineeringunmatched
- Product Lifecycleunmatched
- Product Testingunmatched
- Python Programming/Scripting Languageunmatched
- Reliability Engineeringunmatched
- Scripting (Scripting Languages)unmatched
- Service Deliveryunmatched
- Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)unmatched
- Software Engineeringunmatched
- Source Code/Configuration Management (SCM)unmatched
- Storage Softwareunmatched
- Subversionunmatched
- Switched Fabricunmatched
- Unix Operating Systemsunmatched
- VMWare ESX/ESXiunmatched
- Virtualizationunmatched
- Windows PowerShellunmatched
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