Position: Storage Engineer L3
Location: Mumbai (Khar Road)
Work Model: Work from Office
Package: 15 LPA
Experience Required: 8+ Years
Notice Period: Immediate Joiners
Role Overview
We are seeking a highly skilled Storage Engineer (L3) with extensive hands-on experience in data center storage implementation. The ideal candidate should possess strong technical expertise across leading enterprise storage solutions and be capable of handling complex deployment and integration tasks.
Note: This role is for implementation engineers only not for storage administrators.
Key Responsibilities
- Storage Provisioning: Creating and allocating storage volumes (LUNs, shares, etc.), zoning and masking (SAN), and setting up file systems (NFS, SMB, iSCSI).
- Storage Installation & Configuration: Initial setup of storage arrays (NetApp, Pure Storage, Dell EMC, etc.), RAID configuration, controller setup, and firmware/OS upgrades.
- Performance & Monitoring: Monitoring IOPS, throughput, latency, and performing bottleneck analysis, tuning, and capacity forecasting.
- Backup & Recovery: Snapshot management, integration with backup tools (Commvault, Veeam, Rubrik), replication (local/remote), and restore verification.
- Data Migration: Executing migrations between arrays or to the cloud with minimal downtime, ensuring validation and data integrity.
- Storage Security: Implementing access control, encryption, and compliance (GDPR, HIPAA, etc.).
- High Availability & Disaster Recovery: Configuring replication and failover systems, DR planning/testing, and geo-redundancy setup.
- Cloud & Virtualization Integration: Working with VMware, Hyper-V, Nutanix vSAN, AWS EBS, and Azure Disks.
- Troubleshooting & Incident Response: Diagnosing storage issues, handling hardware failures, and analyzing logs for root-cause resolution.
Required Skills & Experience
- Minimum 8 years of experience in storage implementation within a data center environment.
- Hands-on expertise with Dell EMC, HPE, Hitachi, IBM, and Pure Storage systems.
- Strong knowledge of storage provisioning, RAID, replication, migration, and disaster recovery.
- Ability to manage multiple implementation projects simultaneously with attention to detail.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with a proactive approach.
