Hitachi Storage Admin

5-7 Years

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Job Description

L3 SAN Engineer Hitachi / IBM / Brocade

Role Overview

Deliver L3 engineering across Brocade SAN fabrics, IBM storage, and Hitachi VSP arrays
Lead SAN fabric design, director onboarding, and multifabric architecture
Perform deepdive troubleshooting of fabric issues and performance anomalies
Provide endtoend provisioning and replication engineering across platforms
Support DR readiness, fabric scalability, and global datacenter operations
Drive stability, optimization, and lifecycle engineering of SAN infrastructure
Demonstrate architecturelevel understanding of ASICs, directors, and cache systems

Required Skills & Experience

Strong Brocade experience, including Directors, FOS 9.x, trunking, and virtual fabrics
Expertise in Hitachi VSP Gseries hardware, architecture, data flow, and provisioning
Handson IBM SVC/Flash storage engineering and monitoring experience
Ability to troubleshoot L3 issues like slow drain devices, congestion, and buffer credit issues, etc..
Proficiency with SANnav, Ops Center, and IBM Storage Insights
Strong fiber channel protocol and SAN fabric architecture knowledge
Experience delivering complex SAN changes, upgrades, and migrations
Ability to collaborate across OS, virtualization, DB, and network teams
Strong documentation, RCA, and engineering governance skills

Key Responsibilities

Design, expand, and maintain SAN fabrics and directorclass switches
Configure ISLs, trunking, logical switches, and fabric segmentation
Perform zoning creation, cleanup, and compliance checks
Troubleshoot slow drain devices, congestion, and performance issues
Analyze logs, port health, MAPS alerts, and ASIC behavior
Execute complex L3 SAN changes, firmware upgrades, and patching
Provision storage on Hitachi arrays, manage pools, and configure replication
Manage IBM SVC/Flash provisioning, performance tuning, and capacity
Support DR tests, replication validation, and failover design
Maintain SOPs, runbooks, and engineering documents
Drive RCA, preventive actions, and service improvement initiatives
Coordinate with crossdomain teams during incident and performance investigations
Ensure standardization, compliance, and best practices in SAN environments
Contribute to architecture reviews and capacity planning
Provide SME support for global operations and escalations