IBM Storage Consultant 

Pakistan, Sindh, Karachi 

219134646

• The Expert Labs consultant assume overall technical responsibility for the success of solution construction, implementation and system integration in a technology, industry or business specialty
• You deliver new and complex high-quality solutions to clients in response to varying business requirements
• You have deep skill and strong hands-on skills in ONE or MORE of the following subject matter areas: Enterprise Storage, IBM DS8000, IBM Flash System Products, SAN Networking and Tape products, Spectrum Protect, Spectrum Scale
• Exposure to Containers and Kubernetes technology
• Should be ready to travel (once or twice a month)
Your Role and Responsibilities

• Has deep technical skills and experience in solutions that support the key focus areas for the team.
• Provide technical expertise for the Client engagements and responsible for designing and deploying the solution.
• Collaborate with the technical consultants across other geos to create new assets
• Conduct technology Sessions / workshops on Focus Areas
• Work on PoCs for clients and other IBM Teams

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Minimum of 7+ years of functional experience in the Storage and Backup Domain
• Extensive understanding of Storage concepts including Storage Architecture, Fiber Channel
• Hands-On experience in managing multi-vendor Enterprise Class Storage Systems (Block, NAS, SAN Switches) such as IBM DS8000 Series / EMC VMAX / HDS VSP / IBM SAN Volume Controller / IBM A9000 / Spectrum Scale
• Experience with Hybrid Storage Solutions
• Must have experience in Storage Automation and understanding of scripting day to day tasks
• Experience in Disaster Recovery Planning and Deployment including Storage Replication, Point in time Copy
• Good Communication Skills both written and Verbal
• Experience in Storage Performance Troubleshooting
• Must be an innovative thinker who can take any business problem and quickly come up with a way to sketch out architecture block diagrams using IBM and open source technologies

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Proven soft skills, analytical skills, team player, excel skills and end user support
• Ambitious individual who can work under their own direction towards agreed targets/goals and with creative approach to work
• Intuitive individual with an ability to manage change and proven time management
• Experience on Backup Solutions
• Well versed with IBM or other vendors SRM Solutions
• Certified on Brocade/Cisco SAN
• Certified on IBM / Other Vendor Storage Systems
• Industry experience in Banking /Telecom/ Manufacturing