Associate Storage Engineer - SAN/NAS

Storage Engineer Summary : The Storage Engineer is responsible for supporting the Company's existing storage environment, managing day to day storage related activities, following best practices and providing improvements in process. Job Duties : Primary Duties : - Responsible for all required Storage systems installations/upgrades, configurations and patches. - SAN Zoning, troubleshooting and port configurations. - Storage provisioning, SAN reclaims, break-fix issues and Migrations. - Replication setup and DR exercises. - Responsible for Storage Change Requests, service requests, tickets and deploy the changes during less impact timings. - Maintain the Isilon, XtremIO X2 Storage arrays with X-Bricks, and Storage controllers. - 24x7 On-call rotation for Storage support (Critical issues and Major alerts). - Storage Area Networking (SAN) team responsible for all required Storage systems installations/upgrades, configurations and patches. - SAN Zoning, troubleshooting and port configurations on Brocade SAN switches (DCX 8510). - Storage configurations, Storage provisioning, SAN reclaims, Migrations for all Linux servers, Windows, - VMware ESXi Hosts in the environment. - SAN (XtremIO, X2 and UNITY storage arrays) reclaims for Capacity management and cost savings project. - Configure and set up SYNCIQ Isilon replication set up for Isilon storage arrays. - Perform the SAN storage DR failover and failback for application servers and file shares. - X2 Native SAN replication setup and configure the protection sessions and consistency groups. - Unity Native replication set up and configuration. - Storage capacity management for Unity storage arrays. - Responsible for Storage team Change Requests and deploy the changes during less impact timings. - Responsible for researching/implementing new technologies (SAN and NAS storage environment) - Maintain NAS storage arrays which are Isilon clusters and schedule the drive replacements with Vendor. - Responsible for day to day incidents for storage requests, reclaims raised by server teams, Database teams. - Work with server and database teams to identify and validate the potential ASM LUNS that are unused and over provisioned to validate and reclaim them. - Troubleshoot Performance issues by validating reporting, IOPS, Read/write response times and overall storage arrays performance analysis. - Work with application support for requirements analysis and gathering the data for Storage set up and build the file shares. Requirements : Education and Experience : - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field from a 4 year college or university - Minimum of three (3) years dedicated experience in building scalable, supportable, and stable storage environments. - Experience with Storage Area Networking (SAN) environment, NAS, SAN Fabric switches, Storage Provisioning and Reclaims. - Thorough understanding of storage replication, snapshots, and mirroring. - Experience on XtremIO, Isilon storage arrays and Brocade SAN switches. - Familiarity with storage connectivity to Linux and Microsoft platforms a must. (ref:hirist.tech)

Location: India, IN

Posted Date: 4/26/2024