Sr Storage Engineer
LenovoLittle rock, arkansas, united statesUpdate time: April 22,2021
Job Description
Position Description:
About Lenovo
Focused on a bold vision to deliver smarter technology for all, we are
developing world-changing technologies that create a more inclusive,
trustworthy and sustainable digital society. By designing, engineering and
building the world’s most complete portfolio of smart devices and
infrastructure, we are also leading an Intelligent Transformation – to create
better experiences and opportunities for millions of customers around the
world. Join us in defining our world of tomorrow and creating smarter
technology for all!
Who You’ll Work With
At Lenovo, we manufacture one of the world’s widest portfolios of connected
products, including PCs (ThinkPad, Yoga, Lenovo Legion), tablets, smartphones
and workstations as well as augmented and virtual reality (Mirage,
ThinkReality) and smart home/office solutions, software and services. Lenovo’s
data center solutions (ThinkSystem, ThinkAgile) are creating the capacity and
computing power for the connections that are changing business and society.
About Our Team
This will be a hands-on engineering role working at a customer site. This
role will work directly with the customer's data center staff responsible for
the Lenovo DM Storage Solution. The objectives will be to monitor and support
all problem troubleshooting aspects of this system and to make and support
preventative or corrective maintenance recommendations to the customer.
Candidate must be a self-starter, team player, and able to work independently
with minimal supervision. The successful candidate must be able to quickly
establish business and technical credibility with the Client team. Our
customer has dual vendor operation which will include both Lenovo and NetApp
solutions. Therefore, the candidate’s success will also be determined by
Lenovo’s ability to expand solution footprint based on outstanding DM support.
What You'll Do
• The primary function of this role will be to document and maintain DM
configuration and establish alerting and monitoring procedures.
• Create cases within Lenovo support structure on behalf of the customer.
These cases will include L1/L2 case for parts and/or SSR dispatch.
• Gather and analyze all requisite log, support and product information to
support Action Plans.
• Drive all action and resolutions plan on behalf of the customer and Lenovo.
• Set proper expectations with the customer and Lenovo based on severity and
business impact of the problem.
• Work with customer to establish Maintenance Window for upgrades, repair
actions or other maintenance.
• Establish procedures for workload monitoring and balancing for optimal
performance and stability.
• Diagnose, manage, and/or handle all aspects of hardware repair actions,
including firmware and driver updates, as well as hardware part replacements.
This responsibility will be conducted through the engineers own technical
capability and utilization of the Lenovo service structure to open cases to
receive CRU and FRU parts, and/or SSR support.
• Account management responsibilities will include quality reporting of
technical issues, cases, and repair actions to both Lenovo and the customer
teams.
• Serve as an advocate for Lenovo and our customer. The candidate will work
closely with the Lenovo Account and extended team (DEV, PE, & Product
Management) to ensure that the customer DM issues are handled expeditiously.
#### Position Requirements:
Basic Qualifications:
• 5+ years of experience supporting, troubleshooting, and maintaining NetApp
Storage solutions in a production environment
• Experience with deploying new ONTAP system
• Understanding of OFFTAP products
• NetApp/Lenovo DM Support / Tuning
• Use of SAS/FC/Network analyzers/UART
• ThinkSystem/x86 HW Sup. Troubleshooting
• Experience with Window Server, RHEL, and VMware
• Working knowledge of Open Systems storage system technologies (Block,
File(NFS/CIFS), and Object base storage architectures, storage
protocols/standards (iSCSI, SAS, SCSI, Fibre Channel, Infiniband, FCoE, RoCE,
iWarp, RDMA, NVMe) advanced functions (external virtualization, data
compression, mirroring, data dedup), RAID technologies, and Erasure Coding.
• Working knowledge of operating systems that may exist in an Open Systems
Environment (AIX, Solaris, SUSE, Debian, COS).
• This role requires excellent verbal and written communication skills for
direct interaction and technical account management with the customer's Data
Center Storage Team.
This role is located in Bentonville, AR and relocation assistance is offered.
Why Lenovo?
Lenovo is a US$50 billion Fortune Global 500 company, with 57,000 employees
and operating in 180 markets around the world. We are #1 PC company on the
planet, BCG's 50 most innovative companies, and one of Interbrand’s 100 BEST
global brands. Focused on a bold vision to deliver smarter technology for
all, we are developing world-changing technologies that create a more
inclusive, trustworthy and sustainable digital society. By designing,
engineering and building the world’s most complete portfolio of smart devices
and infrastructure, we are also leading an Intelligent Transformation – to
create better experiences and opportunities for millions of customers around
the world.
Learn more about why it’s great to work at Lenovo -
https://www.lenovobenefits.com/why-join-lenovo
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any
employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age,
religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis
of disability or any federal, state, or local protected class.
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