Performance Storage Engineer (6-10 yrs)

Our technology services client is seeking multiple Performance Storage Operations Engineer to join their team on a contract basis. These positions offer a strong potential for conversion to full-time employment upon completion of the initial contract period.

Role : Performance Storage Operations Engineer.

Key Skills : Storage, Performance Monitoring, Virtual Storage, USP, Network.

Experience : 610 Years.

Location : Pune Locals Only.

Notice Period : Immediate15 Days.

Interview Mode : Face to Face.

Job Description :

- Perform Storage administration tasks like capacity planning, reporting, forecasting, debugging.

- Monitoring the client storage estate, use automation tools to automate repetitive tasks are also part of your responsibilities.

- Proactively monitor storage infrastructure health and performance using monitoring tools and diagnostic utilities.

- Troubleshoot and resolve storage related issues, collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure timely resolution.

- Monitor and optimize storage performance to meet service level agreements (SLAs) and ensure maximum efficiency.

- Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks through capacity planning, tuning, and optimization techniques.

- Maintain comprehensive documentation of storage configurations, procedures, and best practices.

- Share knowledge and expertise with team members through training sessions, technical presentations, and documentation reviews.

- Collaborate with vendors and third-party service providers to evaluate new technologies, troubleshoot issues, and procure hardware and software components as needed.

- Manage vendor relationships and contracts to ensure quality of service and cost-effectiveness.

- Responsible for supporting critical incidents related to storage infrastructure and create SOPs.

- Perform Root Cause Analysis on storage issues.

- Provide recommendations to improve the storage and related infrastructure, address/lead critical issues and analysis.

Preferred Skill Set :

- Storage VSP / USP / USP-VM.

- Performance Monitoring.

- Brocade / Cisco SAN Switches.

- UCP / HICS / HTSM.

- Object Storage / HCP.

- Vmware (VCenter, NDM, UVM).

- Backup (CommVault and Veeam).

- Replication (Shadow Image, TrueCopy, HUR).

- Network.

- Linux.

Qualifications :

- Bachelor& degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.

- 6-10+ years of experience in storage engineering roles, with a focus on designing, implementing, and managing storage infrastructure.

- In-depth knowledge on the Storage arrays, Experience with VSP, UCP would be preferred.

- Demonstrated knowledge of managing Unified storage systems and solutions.

- Hands on experience in configuring and managing the RAID Groups, Storage pools and Storage tiering.

- Knowledge on tools like Remote Ops, HICS, HTSM, RaidCom, CCI would be desirable.

- In-depth knowledge on Configuring and Managing replication (Shadow image, True Copy, HUR), GAD would be an added advantage.

- Knowledge on Virtualization & Migration techniques (Vmware Vcenter, NDM and UVM).

- Deep understanding of enterprise-level storage solutions and technologies.

- Prior experience in diagnosing and resolving complex configuration and bottleneck issues.

- Expertise with Brocade/Cisco series FC switches, adding new switch to an existing fabric (ISL & ICL), merging switch fabrics, Trunking, Switch Migrations &Code upgrades.

- Experience in verification/validation and planning for required patches / microcode upgrade.

- Working experience with international organizations or clients.