26 Oct
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Parseq
|
Bengaluru
Role: FMS Engineer – Storage & Linux Openings: 2
Experience:
2+ years
Location:
Bangalore, Gurugram
Education:
Minimum 15 years of full time education Job Summary We are seeking a certified and experienced Windows, Linux & Storage Administrator to manage, maintain, configure, and enhance our IT infrastructure. The ideal candidate will have strong technical expertise across Windows and Linux operating systems, enterprise storage, backup, and virtualization environments, with responsibility for ensuring system availability, performance, security, and data protection across diverse platforms. Certification in Windows/Linux and/or relevant storage technologies is preferred
Key Responsibilities
• Install, configure, administer, monitor, and troubleshoot HPE enterprise storage platforms, including HPE 3PAR, HPE Primera, and HPE Alletra.
• Perform day-to-day administration of storage arrays, including storage pools, disk groups, RAID levels, volumes, LUNs, host groups, initiators, and storage policies.
• Perform storage provisioning and de-provisioning for physical and virtual servers based on application and business requirements.
• Configure and manage SAN storage connectivity, including Fibre Channel (FC), SAN switches, zoning, host connectivity, and multipathing/MPIO.
• Configure and manage LUN masking, host mapping, VLUNs, initiator/target relationships, and access permissions.
• Manage RAID configurations, disk failures, spare disks, disk replacement, rebuild activities, and storage hardware health.
• Monitor storage infrastructure for capacity, IOPS, latency, throughput, disk utilization, controller health, cache utilization, and overall performance.
• Perform storage performance analysis and tuning to identify and resolve I/O bottlenecks, latency issues, and performance degradation.
• Manage snapshots, clones, remote copy/replication, and synchronous/asynchronous replication and other data-protection capabilities on HPE storage platforms.
• Support backup and recovery operations, including coordination with backup teams, storage-based backups, restores, replication, and recovery activities.
• Perform capacity planning and forecasting, monitor storage growth, identify capacity risks, and recommend expansion or optimization.
• Manage storage firmware, controller updates, disk firmware, patches, and lifecycle activities per vendor recommendations and change-management procedures.
• Troubleshoot and resolve storage, SAN, host connectivity, multipathing, disk, controller, and performance-related incidents.
• Analyze storage alerts and logs, and proactively identify hardware failures, degraded components, capacity issues, and performance anomalies.
• Coordinate with HPE/OEM support teams and vendors for hardware failures, replacement of faulty components, firmware issues, and critical technical escalations.
• Maintain accurate storage configuration documentation, SAN diagrams, LUN allocation records, capacity reports, asset information, and operational SOPs.
• Ensure storage configurations follow security, availability, redundancy, and businesscontinuity requirements.
• Participate in storage migration, data migration, technology refresh, storage expansion, and infrastructure upgrade projects.
• Support virtualization environments such as VMware, Hyper-V, and KVM from a storage perspective, including datastore/LUN provisioning and troubleshooting.
• Work closely with Windows, Linux, VMware, Network, Database, Backup, Application, and Security teams to resolve end-to-end infrastructure issues.
• Participate in incident, problem, change, and service-request management, including RCA for recurring or critical storage incidents.
• Ensure appropriate high availability, redundancy, replication, and disaster-recovery configurations are maintained and periodically validated.
• Conduct and support DR drills, failover/failback activities, storage replication testing,
and recovery validation as required.
• Ensure compliance with defined storage operational standards, security policies, and backup/retention requirements. Required Skills and Qualifications
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 3–7 years of experience as a Windows, Linux, Storage, or Infrastructure Administrator.
• Certification in Microsoft (e.g., MCSA, MCSE) and/or Linux (e.g., RHCSA, RHCE, LFCS) is preferred.
• Hands-on experience with HPE 3PAR / Primera / Alletra storage.
• Knowledge of HPE Smart Array controllers.
• Strong knowledge of SAN/NAS, Fibre Channel, LUNs, RAID, storage pools, snapshots, replication, and multipathing.
• Strong knowledge of system internals, boot processes, file systems, and storage management.
• Experience with LVM, NFS, filesystem management, permissions, and Linux troubleshooting.
• Understanding of IT security practices and tools (antivirus, firewalls, patching). Preferred Qualifications
• Experience working in 24x7 production / data-center environments.
• OEM/vendor certification in HPE Storage or equivalent is an advantage. Soft Skills
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Effective communication and collaboration across teams.
• Self-motivated, with a proactive approach to system improvements.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks and prioritize effectively.
• Ability to handle critical infrastructure incidents and coordinate with multiple technical teams. Additional Technical Expertise — NVIDIA GPU Virtualization
• Hands-on experience with NVIDIA GPU virtualization technologies (vGPU) on both Windows and Linux platforms.
• Install and configure NVIDIA drivers and licensing for virtual GPU use.
• Manage GPU resources for virtual desktops (VDI) and high-performance workloads in VMware, Hyper-V, or KVM environments.
• Optimize performance and troubleshoot GPU passthrough or shared configurations in enterprise virtual environments.
• Ensure compliance with NVIDIA licensing and compatibility matrices.
📌 FMS Engineer – Storage (Bengaluru)
🏢 Parseq
📍 Bengaluru