Location : Chennai,Pune,Mumbai
HP Storage Administration
- Expertlevel administration of HPE 3PAR / Primera / Alletra storage platforms
- Storage provisioning, LUN masking, zoning coordination, and performance tuning
- Capacity planning, growth forecasting, and storage optimization
- Troubleshooting complex storage performance, latency, and availability issues
- Firmware upgrades, health monitoring, and lifecycle management
- Disaster recovery planning and support from storage perspective
- Vendor coordination with HPE support for critical incidents and RCA
Secondary / Cluster Skills (Required)
Brocade SAN Switch
- Fabric administration, zoning (single/dual fabric), and troubleshooting
- ISL management, best practices, and firmware upgrades
- Performance monitoring and remediation of SAN issues
Linux Administration
- Understanding of Linux filesystems, multipathing, and volume management
- Storage connectivity troubleshooting (FC/iSCSI)
- OSlevel performance and disk I/O analysis
Backup – NetBackup
- Integration of HP Storage with Veritas NetBackup
- Backup/restore troubleshooting for enterprise workloads
- Coordination with backup teams during restore and DR scenarios
NetApp Storage (Working Knowledge)
- Administration exposure to NetApp ONTAP environments
- Provisioning, snapshots, replication (SnapMirror – awareness level)
- Crossplatform storage troubleshooting scenarios
Key Responsibilities
- Act as L3 escalation point for HP Storagerelated incidents and problems
- Own Major Incident resolution, Root Cause Analysis (RCA), and preventive actions
- Lead planned activities: upgrades, migrations, consolidations, expansions
- Ensure SLA compliance for storage availability and performance
- Mentor and guide L2/L1 administrators
- Participate in oncall rotation / shift support as required
- Maintain documentation, SOPs, and knowledge articles
- Proactively identify risks and improvement opportunities in storage operations
Tools & Technologies Knowledge
Storage & SAN Tools
- HPE SSMC, CLI tools
- Brocade Network Advisor / SANnav
- Performance and health monitoring tools
ITSM & Monitoring
- ServiceNow (Incident, Problem, Change Management)
- Monitoring tools such as Nagios, Grafana, OEM storage monitoring
Operating Systems & Utilities
- Linux tools for disk, multipath, and performance analysis
- Basic scripting exposure (Shell/Python – desirable)
Soft Skills & Behavioral Expectations
- Strong problemsolving and analytical skills
- Ability to lead technical discussions during outages and bridge calls
- Clear and concise communication with stakeholders (technical & nontechnical)
- Ownership mindset with accountability for outcomes
- Ability to mentor junior resources and raise team capability
- Comfortable working in highpressure, 24×7 production environments
- Strong documentation and operational discipline
Certifications (Preferred)
- HPE Storage Certification (3PAR / Primera / Alletra)
- Brocade SAN Certification
- ITIL Foundation
- NetBackup or Linux certifications (goodtohave)
