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Sr. Architect, Storage Management


Mimosa is a fast-paced organization that has built a world-class core of engineers and brought to market a highly successful software product that has distinguished the company as one of the fastest growing start-ups in the valley. The candidate will need to be a high-energy hands-on architect with very deep and current technical skills who will get a unique opportunity to work on Mimosa's next-generation storage management architecture and gain experience in cutting-edge Microsoft technologies. Mimosa is an elite Managed ISV partner with Microsoft and obtains early access to unannounced Microsoft technologies through TAP, Ascend, Touchdown and other technical partnerships, often more than a year before these products become public knowledge.

Job Description
This individual will architect multi-tier enterprise class storage management systems and associated applications. This individual will be responsible for the architecture and design of these enterprise level storage management application products with comprehensive coverage of all the administration, deployment and configuration aspects, as well as the multi-node server side infrastructure and multi-volume storage infrastructure and all the associated storage management applications. This individual will also be responsible for ensuring high standards in the design and implementation leading to the timely delivery of quality releases that meet or exceed the company expectations.

Responsibilities

• Drive the architecture, design and evolution of the storage management systems and applications of the Mimosa products in conjunction with a sound understanding of the overall product architecture and by working closely with other architects
• Work closely with other engineering teams, product management and customers to continuously evolve and improve the enterprise class storage management systems and applications for continuous data protection, application shadowing, optimized data replication over LAN and WAN, data and service recovery, disaster recovery, data management, backup/restore and other storage management aspects of the enterprise information management products that Mimosa delivers
• Maintain efficient and effective communication and collaboration with other architects, engineering teams and SQA to address dependencies between various sub-systems and to ensure end to end coverage and quality in the implementations and product releases
• Ensure application usability and effectiveness from customer perspective meets or exceeds customer and end-user expectations
• Help the development teams resolve design and implementation issues on internally raised product issues as well as for escalated customer cases on a regular basis for the storage management applications and infrastructure

Professional Background - Required

• Significant past experience architecting, designing and delivering enterprise level storage management solutions
• Established track record driving the architecture, design and evolution of multiple versions of multiple products
• Experience providing technical leadership and guidance for a team of 10+ developers
• Some startup background or from a company with aggressive “small company” culture
• Involved with architecting, designing and delivering mission critical and scalable storage management applications
• Experience with collaborative onshore /offshore or distributed non-stop software development teams
• Significant experience with architecting solutions leveraging SAN, NAS, DAS storage and related storage management technologies
• Experience with backup applications, CDP solutions and DR solutions
• Knowledge of native storage replication and volume snapshot technologies and experience with vendor specific implementations
• Knowledge of HSM and tiered storage architectures and experience with vendor specific implementations
• Experience with distributed systems, multi-threading, inter-process communication, network programming and synchronization techniques on the Microsoft Windows platform
• Experience with Microsoft enterprise platforms and applications and experience with Microsoft development environment
• Strong understanding of robustness, usability, scalability and performance
• Windows Programming (C++, COM, .NET, C#, XML, ADO , SQL) experience
• Experience with Microsoft Active Directory, Exchange, Exchange ESE and VSS APIs highly desirable

About Mimosa Systems, Inc.
Mimosa System, Inc. provides comprehensive data management solutions that unify archiving, compliance, data protection, and disaster recovery for email, documents and other semi-structured and unstructured data. Mimosa's first solution, NearPoint TM is for Microsoft Exchange. Mimosa is based in Santa Clara , California and its executive team consists of industry leaders from Cheyenne/CA, Brocade, iXOS, KVS, Veritas, and Zantaz. Mimosa is a Venture Capital financed company that has raised $21.5 Million in financing from Clearstone Venture Partners, August Capital, JAFCO Ventures, Lighthouse Capital and DotEdu Ventures. Mimosa has a close partnership with Microsoft and August Capital is represented by Dave Marquardt who is also on the board of Microsoft Corporation.

To Apply
Interested candidates send resume to jobs@mimosasystems.com