Job Summary

Storage Engineer / Administrator (L2) with 6+ years of experience in enterprise storage administration and operations across SAN, NAS, block, file, and cloud storage environments. Responsible for storage usage monitoring, provisioning and management, device patching, performance management, capacity reporting, troubleshooting, and remediation of storage incidents/tickets within agreed SLAs.

Key Responsibilities

Monitor storage usage, availability, utilization, performance, and capacity. Perform storage provisioning, LUN creation, volume management, allocation, expansion, and reclamation. Administer and manage enterprise SAN, NAS, block, and file storage environments. Perform storage device patching, firmware/software upgrades, and post-change validation. Monitor and manage storage performance, latency, IOPS, throughput, and utilization. Prepare storage capacity and utilization reports and identify capacity risks. Troubleshoot storage connectivity, performance, capacity, multipathing, and SAN fabric issues. Perform remediation of storage incidents and service requests within agreed SLAs. Support Fibre Channel, iSCSI, NFS, SMB/CIFS, and associated storage protocols. Manage snapshots, replication, storage protection, and recovery activities. Perform SAN zoning and support host-to-storage connectivity. Support storage integration with VMware, Windows, Linux, databases, and backup platforms. Support Incident, Problem, Change, and Major Incident Management activities. Coordinate with Server, Backup, VMware, Database, Cloud, Network, and OEM/vendor teams. Maintain SOPs, operational runbooks, configuration documents, and knowledge articles.

Skill Requirement : Strong hands-on experience in Enterprise Storage Administration. Experience in Storage Usage Monitoring, Provisioning, and Capacity Management. Experience with storage device patching, firmware upgrades, and lifecycle maintenance. Strong knowledge of Storage Performance Management and Capacity Reporting.



Experience troubleshooting and remediating storage incidents within defined SLA timelines. Hands-on knowledge of SAN, NAS, Fibre Channel, iSCSI, NFS, and SMB/CIFS. Experience with storage technologies such as Dell EMC, NetApp, Pure Storage, Hitachi Vantara, HPE, IBM, or equivalent. Knowledge of Brocade and/or Cisco MDS, SAN fabric, and zoning. Experience with LUNs, volumes, storage pools, snapshots, replication, and storage reclamation. Understanding of High Availability, Backup/Recovery, and Disaster Recovery concepts. Experience supporting VMware, Linux, and Windows server environments. Familiarity with storage monitoring, capacity, and performance-management tools. Knowledge of ServiceNow/ITSM and Incident, Problem, and Change Management. Good troubleshooting, communication, documentation, and vendor-coordination skills.

Other Requirement : Strong hands-on experience in Enterprise Storage Administration. Experience in Storage Usage Monitoring, Provisioning, and Capacity Management. Experience with storage device patching, firmware upgrades, and lifecycle maintenance. Strong knowledge of Storage Performance Management and Capacity Reporting. Experience troubleshooting and remediating storage incidents within defined SLA timelines. Hands-on knowledge of SAN, NAS, Fibre Channel, iSCSI, NFS, and SMB/CIFS. Experience with storage technologies such as Dell EMC, NetApp, Pure Storage, Hitachi Vantara, HPE, IBM, or equivalent. Knowledge of Brocade and/or Cisco MDS, SAN fabric, and zoning. Experience with LUNs, volumes, storage pools, snapshots, replication, and storage reclamation. Understanding of High Availability, Backup/Recovery, and Disaster Recovery concepts. Experience supporting VMware, Linux, and Windows server environments. Familiarity with storage monitoring, capacity, and performance-management tools. Knowledge of ServiceNow/ITSM and Incident, Problem, and Change Management. Good troubleshooting, communication, documentation, and vendor-coordination skills.

Skill Requirements

NA

Must Have Skill

VMware Aria Operations,VMware SRM,VMware vSAN,Vmware vSphere & vCenter

Positive to Have Skill

Other Requirements

NA

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