Role & responsibilities

Role Overview

- Deliver L3 engineering across Brocade SAN fabrics, IBM storage, and Hitachi VSP arrays
- Lead SAN fabric design, director onboarding, and multifabric architecture
- Perform deepdive troubleshooting of fabric issues and performance anomalies
- Provide endtoend provisioning and replication engineering across platforms
- Support DR readiness, fabric scalability, and global datacenter operations
- Drive stability, optimization, and lifecycle engineering of SAN infrastructure
- Demonstrate architecturelevel understanding of ASICs, directors, and cache systems

Required Skills & Experience

- Solid Brocade experience, including Directors, FOS 9.x, trunking, and virtual fabrics
- Expertise in Hitachi VSP Gseries hardware, architecture, data flow, and provisioning
- Handson IBM SVC/Flash storage engineering and monitoring experience
- Ability to troubleshoot L3 issues like slow drain devices, congestion, and buffer credit issues, etc..
- Proficiency with SANnav, Ops Center, and IBM Storage Insights
- Strong fiber channel protocol and SAN fabric architecture knowledge
- Experience delivering complex SAN changes, upgrades, and migrations
- Ability to collaborate across OS, virtualization, DB,



and network teams
- Strong documentation, RCA, and engineering governance skills

Key Responsibilities

- Design, expand, and maintain SAN fabrics and directorclass switches
- Configure ISLs, trunking, logical switches, and fabric segmentation
- Perform zoning creation, cleanup, and compliance checks
- Troubleshoot slow drain devices, congestion, and performance issues
- Analyze logs, port health, MAPS alerts, and ASIC behavior
- Execute complex L3 SAN changes, firmware upgrades, and patching
- Provision storage on Hitachi arrays, manage pools, and configure replication
- Manage IBM SVC/Flash provisioning, performance tuning, and capacity
- Support DR tests, replication validation, and failover design
- Maintain SOPs, runbooks, and engineering documents
- Drive RCA, preventive actions, and service improvement initiatives
- Coordinate with crossdomain teams during incident and performance investigations
- Ensure standardization, compliance, and best practices in SAN environments
- Contribute to architecture reviews and capacity planning
- Provide SME support for global operations and escalations

📌 StorageSAN Engineer- Hitachi / IBM / Brocade (Hyderabad)
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