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Allstate Insurance Corporation
Location: Northbrook, IL 60062 Document ID: A4314-0XBG Posted on: 2010-11-0411/04/2010 Job Type: RegularJob Schedule:Full-time
2010-12-04
Storage Service Engineer - (Job Number: 000AGQ)
Primary purpose is to support infrastructure projects and availability through gathering of requirements, design, testing and implementation of storage capabilities.
- Monitor and maintain hardware and software infrastructure components
- Responds to infrastructure incidents, which could include on-call support, escalations, and coordinating resolution/remediation.
- Drive root cause analysis on incidents
- Contribute to detailed project estimates and work plan
- Support process improvements
- Support Corporate strategy
- Build and sustain relationships/partnerships
- Provides disaster recovery support
- Mentor and coach peers/colleagues
- Focus on client/customer
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Qualification
- Basic understanding of SAN and NAS storage technologies and protocols.
- Familiar with storage concepts, such as fabric topologies, zoning, LUSE, CVS
- Basic understanding of SAN Administration including zoning, LUN security, and HBA configuration
- Basic understanding of UNIX - Solaris and/or basic understanding of MS Windows 2008
- Basic understanding of Sun/Solaris (UNIX) and/or MS Windows Server 2003/2008
- Effective personal and written communication skills
- Ability to effectively manage relationships
- Organizational skills with attention to task details, documentation and target dates
- Team orientated, willing and able to share knowledge and collaborate with others.
- MS Office - Word, Excel, Power Point, Visio
Especially interested if familiar with:
- 3Par System Reporter, External Storage Configuration, Logical Partitioning
- Qlogic (Sun/UNIX) and/or Emulex (Windows) HBA Configuration
- VERITAS Storage Foundation, VxVM, VxDMP, Sun Traffic Manager, ZFS, and/or other multipathing technologies
- Virtualization technologies (VMWare)
- SanScreen, SnapVault, SnapMirror, Protection Manager






