Bilingual Storage Migration Architect

Client is a global tech service company hiring an experienced Bilingual Storage Migration Architect! Great mid-career, senior job opportunity/ Full-time permanent job!

[Client] A Global Indian ICT Service Company based in Tokyo　

[Nature of Job] Client-facing data storage migration /solution role for end client.

[Company Size] Mid Size (~500 employees), more than 20 years in business in Japan

[Employent Type] Permanent/ Full Time　

[Salary Range] 8 - 12 million JPY yearly (annual salary package, bonus/ incentive inclusive). Depending on experience and skill. 

[Work Location] Onsite or hybrid work in central Tokyo area. Walk-in distance from the nearest station.

[Work Hours] 8 hours per day (9AM - 6PM with 1 hour break, it may shift slightly)　

[Team Structure] Local /international client and business team

[Eligibility] Relevant work experience, bilingual (business level in Japanese, and business level English). Applicants need to be eligible to work full time as an engineer in Japan at the time of application. 

[Key Features] Mid-career, full-time, engineer job, high salary, growth industry

[Special Benefits] Social insurance, paid holidays, special leave, life support service. 65 years old retirement age, continuous contract employment option. Annual appraisal, health check

[How to Apply] From the site, or contact us (aahr@asoacehd.co.jp) with the reference number L8V7VW9R

[Job Description] *information is subject to change, non-exhaustive


General Job Description and Experience Needed:

Position: Bilingual Storage Migration Architect

Key Skills:

1. Storage Migrations

1. File Migrations

1. Pure storage solutions

As a Solution Architect, you will utilize your strong consulting and technical competencies in Block, File, and Object data transition to Pure storage solutions, to provide the highest level of transition architecting, and planning capability, and technical consultation to customers, and partners.

You will work in cross-functional teams including Product and Services Sales, Product Marketing, Business Development Managers, Product Engineering, Services Engineering to scope and help to position Professional Services Solutions for homogeneous and heterogeneous product solutions to customers/partners. You will become intimately acquainted with the customer's/partners business requirements, technical needs, systems, environment and service history, enabling you to present targeted solutions to our customer base.

You will design and plan the implementation of service solutions for our customers and will be expected to be a technical lead of the hands-on team delivering these services across the world. The role covers customer-facing pre-sales and delivery functions, and you will be comfortable with performing either role as demand dictates.

You possess a thorough understanding of modern datacenter and hybrid cloud IT architecture, designing solutions, networking and implementation of these solutions. You must have significant experience across enterprise storage platforms, different data migration technologies for SAN, NAS, Object, CAS, know most enterprise class operating systems, and be comfortable with SAN fabrics and NAS networking solutions. You will also be experienced in delivering large-scale and complex projects utilizing all the mentioned offerings and will also be skilled in scripting to enable automation of these processes where appropriate.

Responsibilities:

• Help customers to determine the best way to achieve their business objectives on projects that involve data migrations.

• Lead the data migration conversations, provide architecture and solutions to address the data migration needs.

• Translate customer business requirements to migration solutions that will support achieving them

• Be an expert in Pure migration methodology. Explain how methodology helps to mitigate data migration risks at the customer environment.

• Conduct detailed technical discovery of a customer environment.

• Perform customer environment and data analysis, identify areas of focus for the delivery team

• Create a comprehensive end-to-end data migration plan that will support achieving customer-desired outcomes

• Be a Pure storage product expert consulting customers on the best practice implementation techniques.

• Advise and consult on Pure solution implementation strategies that will help to address customer needs around areas like active clustering, DR replication, disaster recovery, monitoring and others.

• Have expertise in performing all data migration tasks, able to lead and coach on them as necessary.

• Lead a team of migration engineers through a migration execution phase

• Be an SME in at least 4 data migration areas (Block data migration, NFS, SMB/CIFS, Object, Compute, Application based migration, Host-based migration)

• Provide support for the technical issues related to the migration architecture implementation.

• Develop scripts for both integration of Pure storage into a customer's operational environment and the automation of replication, clustering, cloud and data migrations.

WHAT YOU NEED TO BRING TO THIS ROLE

• Excellent business-focused verbal and written communication skills

• Ability to tailor messaging to the specific audience sales, management, technical etc.

• Ability to explain complex technical issues in a simple easy to understand way

• Be a technical expert around data migration techniques

• Storage solutions deployment experience in the enterprise environment

• Flash Array experience / Replication technologies (Active Cluster or similar)

• Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure and other cloud-based offerings.

• Data Center Migrations/Consolidations/Toolsets

• Networking concepts and high-level designs

• Cirrus Data Solutions Appliance (or Appliance based solutions for migrating block data)

• Virtualization Tools - Cisco/Microsoft/VMWare (Cloud solutions)

• Proven experience of scripting languages such as Perl, Shell, Powershell, Visual Basic, Python.

• Networking infrastructure (Nexus / ACI / Broadcom / Brocade)

• Security/Firewalls

• Other technical platforms or infrastructure migration tools such as Logical Volume Manager (LVM), Datadobi, Komprise.

• Multi-vendor server and storage platforms and performance tuning experience.

• Operational knowledge of Windows, AIX, Unix, HP-US, Solaris, Linux Operating systems

• Knowledge of Hyper-V and VMWare ESXi

• Preparation and delivery of technical and architecture solution

• Contribute significant portions for data migration solutions to RFPs, RFQs and RFIs

• Superior knowledge of current and emerging storage architectures (FC, iSCSI, CIFS/SMB, NFS, S3, OSD, SAN)

• Knowledge of Local Area Networking, Ethernet, TCP/IP and general networking

• Excellent English verbal and written communication skills, any additional languages are a definite benefit

• Team leadership skills

• Bi-lingual (multi-lingual a huge+)

• BS in CS, EE or other technical degree and/or equivalent experience.

Education:

• 8 to 10 years of experience

• A Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering; or a related field is required; a Graduate Degree is preferred.

• Experience that demonstrates a significant level of expertise in designing and delivering complex data migration solutions across heterogeneous storage platforms.

Will also look for Qualified candidates that have:

• Specialized knowledge in breadth and/or depth in data migration tool sets (specifically the Cirrus Data Appliance) and disciplines

• Understanding of enterprise applications like Oracle, SAP, SQL

• Experience with deploying storage solutions in containerized and public cloud environments.

• Strong aptitude for learning new technologies and understanding how to utilize them in a customer-facing environment.

• Ability to follow standard engineering principles and practices.

• Creative approach to problem solving.

• Travel to the prospective customer's domestic sites and other global sites as necessary.