Storage Engineer

at  OPENSOURCE TECHNOLOGIES PTE LTD

The Storage Engineer must be a certified Storage (SAN) and Backup Administrator in administration and troubleshooting, in a 24x7 enterprise setting (inclusive of manual discovery or post actions from automatic alerts). The Engineer will be expected to cover level 2 and level 3 storage related problems and must be an experienced administrator in the following technologies:

• IBM V3700 and V7000
• EMC unity or EMC VNX
• NETAPP storage
• HP Nimble or any Dell storages
• Hitachi storage
• EMC Isilon or any NAS product
• Cisco or Brocade san switches
• NETBACKUP or Veeam
• IBM tape libraries

REQUIREMENTS:

• Recognized Diploma/Degree in Information Technology/Information Systems/Computer Science, Business IT or other equivalent university degree.
• At least 5 years’ experience in Enterprise Backup Solutions and Storage Area Network.
• Experience in power cycling the storage devices and upgrading the san switches.
• Working experience on storage replication is good to have.
• Experience data centre shutdown activities.
• Experience in DR exercises.
• Good understanding of a services business in a high-tech environment from a supplier, integrator or operator’s perspective.
• Demonstrated leadership ability and achievement oriented.
• Must be able to work independently with minimal supervision.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, combined with ability to provide quick resolution to problems.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills .
• Customer service oriented and an effective team player.
• Preferable with government sector experience.

• Provide Installation, administration and maintenance support for Storage Area Network and Enterprise Backup.
• Health check and monitoring of the storage devices.
• Integrate the storage solution’s hardware and software into the customer’s operating environment and ensure full interoperability.
• Regularly update the firmware.
• Ensure comprehensive documentation of the storage solution is in place.
• Prepare test plan in consultation with the customer to ensure the solution can function fully. Enterprise Backup.
• Administration and management of Symantec backup environment.
• Backup job configuration and scheduling.
• Backup server performance tuning.
• Troubleshoot any backup related.
• Capacity planning for tape libraries and backup servers.
• Perform Disaster Recovery (DR) for all the critical systems and ensure successful rebuilt of Production or DR servers after each DR should the need arise.
• Manage and monitor multiple storage subsystem.
• Manage disk partitioning.
• LUN assignments (create, modify or delete LUN of various sizes).
• Creation and management of Zones.
• Manage the storage capacity and utilization.
• Conduct capacity planning and performance tuning.
• Define and configure security within the storage subsystem.
• Maintaining or troubleshooting the zones and switch related issues.