Senior Storage Administrator (Pure Storage) - IT

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To support our extraordinary teams who build great products and contribute to our growth, we’re looking to add a Senior Storage Administrator - IT located in Chennai / Coimbatore.

Reporting to Manager and the role involves,

What a typical day looks like:

• To perform full range of storage design, provisioning and support functions on Dell/EMC, NetApp, Pure storage, Cisco MDS directors, Brocade Switches which interface to Windows, VMware, and Linux servers. 
• To perform capacity planning, performance monitoring, problems identification, troubleshooting, failure recovery and proactive maintenance.
• Perform SAN changes and trouble-shoot issues on SAN. (Cisco / Brocade)
• To lead and execute in incident, problem, change and release management processes.
• To compile statistics on Availability, Performance, and Utilization for management reporting.
• Report on storage performance and usage
• Scripting experience - write code and automate repeatable processes, REST API, Ansible
• To drive improvements to meet & exceed the SLA.
• To participate and advise on technical and operational issues for new project introductions (NPI)
• To produce and maintain proper SOP documentation.
• To conduct training when required
• Integration with cloud storage technologies
• LEAN methodologies and automation experience
• Effective communication and collaboration skills
• Local and remote storage replication using Dell/EMC, NetApp and Pure Storage.

The experience we’re looking to add to our team:

• Any Bachelor/ Master degree in computer engineering or IT .

• At least 7 year working experience in supporting & managing high-end SAN storage for Enterprise grade Unix and Windows systems in a large Data Center.
• At least 5 years working experience in a large SAN with heterogeneous environment with mixed technologies, Dell/EMC, NetApp, Pure Storage, Brocade and Cisco
• Support experience with Hitachi, HPE or other storage vendors
• Backup experience using Veeam, Netbackup or other solutions
• Experience in VMware/Linux/Windows administration. 
• Cloud experience – deploying and administration on AWS or Azure.
• Automating repetitive tasks
• ITIL or equivalent qualifications
• Excel knowledge, i.e. Vlookup, pivot tables, etc
• Nagios Based Monitoring
• Veritas NetBackup supporting Solaris, RedHat Linux, IBM AIX, Windows and VMware platforms
• Oracle RMAN experience

What you’ll receive for the great work you provide:

• Health insurance
• PTO

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