I don't normally post job listings, but this one is to help out a friend.

A contracting company in the Sterling/Chantilly Northern Virginia area is seeking to fill (2) positions: Senior Unix /Storage Engineer and a Storage Engineer.
Sr UNIX / Storage Engineer:
Proficient with Sun Solaris, as well as Sun Enterprise hardware
(Specifically: V120, V240, V280, V480, V490, F3800, F4800, F6800, V20z, V40z, X4100, V880, E15k, and E25k) and SUN/Hitachi/3rd Party Storage Area Network devices.

The engineer is responsible for meeting with the client technical staff to document "as is" infrastructures, analyze collected data, collaborate with team members and implement an optimized, resource efficient, accredit able solutions. He ensures that the team's implementation, quality, schedule and project/task objectives are met on time while sharing best practices with peers and management.

Backup Engineer:
Provide day to day O&M to Sun branded Storagetek libraries such as L8500 & L700 models in a mixed Linux/Unix/Windows environment.

The engineer supports all aspects of daily backup and restore activities dealing with tape backups / rotation, media planning and applies patches, firmware upgrades, testing of back ups, disaster recovery plans, and create accurate documentation.: Administer the SAN with a combination of Hitachi, 3Par, CISCO MDS and Brocade with a variety of hosts running Solaris, Windows, Linux, and OS/X. Create zones, provision storage LUNS, and be able to provide storage utilization reports. All requires experience working on Sun Solaris Enterprise class machines.

The company is flexible on the Storage or SAN requirement for both positions, so if you are a candidate who may be a 'close' fit, but not a 'perfect' fit, please contact regardless.

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