Storage Engineer

Virtej offers you a core of the three T’s, i.e., tools, talent, and technology, to fuel your growth. Our commitment to innovation and scalability allows us to provide solutions tailored to your business needs. Whether it’s a dynamic IT Consultation, innovative product development, or streamlining your business operations by helping you with recruitment, staff augmentation, and outsourcing services, our services help you save cost, time, and energy.

The Role

Responsibilities & Duties:

Design and Implementation:

Design, architect, and implement robust and scalable storage solutions (SAN, NAS, Object Storage, DAS, cloud storage) to meet current and future business needs.

Configure and deploy storage hardware (e.g., Huawei, Dell EMC, Pure Storage, HP) and software.

Integrate new storage systems with existing IT infrastructure.

Management and Maintenance:

Monitor storage infrastructure performance, capacity, and availability to ensure optimal operation.

Perform routine maintenance tasks, including firmware updates, patch management, system health checks, and hardware replacements.

Execute provisioning tasks such as LUN creation and mapping.

Troubleshoot and resolve complex storage-related issues, working with vendors as needed.

Data Protection and Disaster Recovery:

Implement and manage data backup and recovery operations, ensuring data integrity and business continuity.

Develop and implement disaster recovery (DR) plans and strategies for storage systems, including data replication and mirroring.

Conduct regular DR testing.

Performance Optimization and Capacity Planning:

Conduct performance tuning and optimization of storage systems based on workload and application needs.

Perform regular capacity planning to anticipate future storage requirements and proactively address them.

Documentation and Compliance:

Develop and maintain detailed documentation of storage configurations, procedures, and architectural diagrams.

Ensure compliance with data storage policies, regulations, and security best practices (e.g., FISMA, STIG).

Automation and Scripting:

Develop and implement scripts (e.g., PowerShell, Python, Bash) to automate

storage management tasks and enforce configuration standards.

Collaboration and Support:

Collaborate effectively with other IT teams (network, server, database,application teams) to ensure seamless integration and support.

Provide technical support and expertise to end-users and project teams for storage-related queries and problems.

Participate in on-call rotations for incident response outside of regular business hours.

Research and Evaluation:

Research and evaluate new storage technologies and trends to propose innovative solutions and improvements.

Stay up-to-date with industry best practices and emerging technologies.

Ideal Profile

You possess a Degree/Diploma in Computer Science, Engineering or related field.

You have at least 2 years experience, ideally within a Network Engineer / Systems Engineer or System Administrator role.

You have working knowledge of Storage Area Network (SAN), Network-Attached Storage (NAS), Dell EMC, Pure Storage, HP Storage, Fibre Channel, iSCSI and NFS

You pay strong attention to detail and deliver work that is of a high standard

You are highly goal driven and work well in fast paced environments

You are a strong team player who can manage multiple stakeholders

What's on Offer?

Work within a company with a solid track record of success

Join a well known brand within IT Infrastructure / Blockchain / Cloud Computing

Attractive salary & benefits

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