Systems Storage IT Engineer
Location:

Bangalore (Hybrid - at least 1 or 2 days in a week)
Experience:

5+ Years

About the Role

We are looking for an experienced

Systems Storage IT Engineer

to support, operate, and scale global enterprise storage platforms.
This contractor role focuses on the day-to-day operation, maintenance, performance, availability, and reliability of production storage environments. You will work closely with infrastructure, engineering, and application teams to deliver reliable and scalable storage services.

Key Responsibilities

Monitor, operate, administer, and maintain

NAS, SAN, and Object Storage

platforms, ensuring high availability and optimal performance.
Troubleshoot and resolve storage-related incidents and escalate complex issues to appropriate engineering or vendor teams.
Support

NetApp, Pure FlashBlade, DDN, Lustre, Ceph , and related enterprise storage technologies.
Develop and maintain

automation scripts and operational tools

to improve efficiency and reduce manual effort.
Perform storage

capacity analysis, forecasting, and planning

to support infrastructure and business growth.
Collaborate with infrastructure and engineering teams on storage deployments, configurations, upgrades, migrations, and integrations.
Support application onboarding, testing, validation, and production-readiness activities.
Participate in incident response, operational support, and on-call/holiday rotations as required.
Create and maintain technical documentation, operational runbooks, SOPs, and storage best practices.
Continuously identify opportunities to improve platform reliability, scalability, automation,



and operational efficiency.

Required Skills & Qualifications

5+ years of experience

in Storage Administration, Infrastructure Operations, Systems Engineering, or Platform Support.
Strong hands-on experience managing enterprise

NAS, SAN, and/or Object Storage

environments.
Production experience with one or more of:
NetApp
Pure Storage FlashBlade
DDN
Lustre
Ceph
Experience supporting

highly available and scalable infrastructure

in 24x7 production environments.
Strong knowledge of storage troubleshooting, performance monitoring, incident management, and capacity planning.
Experience with

automation and scripting

relevant to infrastructure/storage operations.
Familiarity with

Docker and Kubernetes .
Familiarity with

CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, logging, and version control tools , including Git and/or Perforce.
Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving capabilities.
Valuable communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively with global infrastructure and engineering teams.
Bachelor's degree in

Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology , or a related discipline.

Nice to Have

Understanding of

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)

concepts, including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, observability, and reliability engineering.
Experience supporting

large-scale distributed systems .
Exposure to infrastructure automation and Infrastructure-as-Code practices.
Experience working with geographically distributed/global infrastructure teams.
Ability to work independently, take ownership of operational issues, and deliver effectively in a contractor engagement.

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