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As a market leader, the talent and passion of our people is critical to our success. Together, we share a common set of values rooted in integrity, excellence and strong team ethic. Morgan Stanley can provide a superior foundation for building a professional career - a place for people to learn, to achieve and grow. A philosophy that balances personal lifestyles, perspectives and needs is an important part of our culture.

Technology

Technology works as a strategic partner with Morgan Stanley business units and the world's leading technology companies to redefine how we do business in ever more global, complex, and dynamic financial markets. Morgan Stanley's sizeable investment in technology results in quantitative trading systems, cutting-edge modeling and simulation software, comprehensive risk and security systems, and robust client-relationship capabilities, plus the worldwide infrastructure that forms the backbone of these systems and tools. Our insights, our applications and infrastructure give a competitive edge to clients' businesses and to our own.

The team is seeking a Senior IBM Spectrum Scale (GPFS) Solutions Architect with a minimum of 5 years working experience with the product. This individual must demonstrate the ability to architect and implement cost-effective GPFS solutions leveraging the products capability to solve a wide range of application and database requirements that require large scale, high-performance access to a distributed file system environment. This candidate must possess a deep understanding of the entire GPFS architecture including but not limited to the GPFS Kernel and User space components, Spectrum Scale RAID (GNR), Clustering, AFM, Caching capabilities (LROC, HAWC, etc.), Transparent Cloud Tiering, Performance Tuning (client side/server side/networks), CES, deploying GPFS on IBM ESS, 3rd party HW and shared-nothing models, etc. Advanced understanding of TCP/IP and large-scale enterprise networks is preferred but not required. As part for the integrated GPFS solution, this candidate will also design storage tools on configuration management, storage allocations, problem management and preventive maintenance (alert and capacity management). Generally, the candidate needs to understand storage virtualization, workload automation, storage provisioning, distributed and scale out file systems, software defined storage solutions, emerging technologies in the storage discipline and SAN/NAS Fabric management. Ability to work as part of a global team is a requirement. In addition, the candidate must be able to listen to customer requirements and be able to advise, discuss and articulate technical solutions effectively.

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Qualifications:

Skills Required:

• Strong Perl and UNIX shell, Python, JAVA and/or C++ programming skills.
• System Administration experience within UNIX and/or Windows Server environment is preferred but not required. Experience with software development lifecycle with large software development projects is a must.
• Good organizational and English communication skills, prioritization of multiple projects and objective.
• Deep knowledge of storage technologies and disciplines namely, Fibre Channel, ISCSI, SCSI, NFS, CIFS, POSIX, Object Storage, SAS, SATA, FLASH (NVME, SSD, etc.), RAID, Erasure Coding, Distributed/Scale-out Storage, File systems, High-availability methods, working knowledge of databases etc. are strongly preferred.
• Understanding networking protocols and connectivity preferred.
• Understanding Server and Client OS and interaction, virtualization, performance, and capacity management strongly preferred.
• Knowledge in the following vendor products is preferred but not required
• Brocade SAN switches/FOS, NetApp 7mode and cDOT, NetApp Engenio, HDS Storage Arrays/HCP, IBM Spectrum Scale, IBM Spectrum Scale RAID, Veritas Storage Foundation Suite.
• Expert or Intermediate knowledge of Red Hat (RHEL) 6/7/8 or other Linux distribution.
• Familiarity with C, UNIX system calls, and low-level O/S and network protocols.
• Excellent troubleshooting and fault-finding skills. Ability to write robust, maintainable code in Shell, Python and/or Perl.
• Effective troubleshooting skills across hardware, O/S, network and storage.

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