Storage Engineer

Job Title: Storage Engineer L1
Location: Mumbai (Khar)
Relevant Experience Range: 2+ Years
Notice Period: Immediate Joiners to 30 Days
Phone Number: [phone removed]
Email: [email removed]

Job Description:

• Strong hands-on experience with SAN, NAS, and enterprise storage environments.
• Experience with storage provisioning, including LUNs, volumes, shares, and storage pools.
• Hands-on experience with thin and thick provisioning.
• Strong knowledge of SAN zoning, LUN masking, and storage connectivity.
• Experience with NFS, SMB, and iSCSI file/storage protocols.
• Experience with enterprise storage platforms such as NetApp, Pure Storage, Dell EMC, HPE, or similar.
• Strong knowledge of RAID and storage controller configuration.
• Experience with storage firmware and OS upgrades.
• Knowledge of storage monitoring, IOPS, throughput, latency, and capacity management.
• Experience with backup and recovery integration using tools such as Commvault, Veeam, Rubrik, or similar.
• Experience with snapshots, replication, restore testing, and recovery validation.
• Experience in data migration between storage arrays and/or cloud platforms.
• Knowledge of storage security, access controls, permissions, and encryption.
• Experience with High Availability and Disaster Recovery solutions.
• Knowledge of storage integration with VMware, Hyper-V, Nutanix, or HCI environments.
• Knowledge of cloud storage such as AWS EBS, Azure Disks, S3, or Azure Blob.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
• Good communication and coordination skills.
• Ability to coordinate with OEMs and vendors for hardware/software troubleshooting.
• Knowledge of information security policies, compliance, and audit requirements.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provision and allocate storage resources including LUNs, volumes, shares, and storage pools.
• Configure thin/thick provisioning, SAN zoning, and LUN masking.
• Configure NFS, SMB, and iSCSI storage connectivity.
• Perform installation and initial configuration of enterprise storage arrays.
• Configure RAID, storage controllers, and storage pools.
• Perform storage firmware and OS upgrades.
• Monitor storage performance including IOPS, throughput, latency, and utilization.
• Identify storage bottlenecks and perform performance tuning.
• Monitor storage health, alerts, thresholds, and capacity utilization.
• Prepare capacity forecasts and storage utilization reports.
• Manage snapshots and storage replication.
• Integrate storage systems with backup and recovery solutions such as Commvault, Veeam, or Rubrik.
• Perform scheduled restore testing and verify backup/recovery readiness.
• Configure and manage local and remote replication.
• Perform data and LUN/volume migrations between storage arrays or to cloud platforms.
• Plan migrations to minimize downtime and validate data integrity after migration.
• Manage storage access controls, permissions, and security configurations.
• Support encryption of data at rest and in transit.
• Configure and maintain High Availability and Disaster Recovery solutions.
• Participate in DR planning, failover configuration, and DR testing.
• Manage clustered storage and geo-redundant storage environments.
• Support tiered and archival storage based on data lifecycle requirements.
• Configure and manage integration with object storage platforms such as S3 and Azure Blob.
• Support storage integration with VMware, Hyper-V, Nutanix, and HCI environments.
• Provision and manage cloud storage resources such as AWS EBS and Azure Disks.
• Troubleshoot storage hardware, disk failures, controller issues, and connectivity problems.
• Analyze storage logs and escalate complex issues to OEM/vendor support.
• Coordinate with OEMs for hardware replacement, troubleshooting, and resolution.
• Maintain updated documentation for storage configurations, installations, migrations, and changes.
• Ensure compliance with data protection, information security, and audit requirements.
• Support closure of storage-related audit findings.

Support Model:

• Enterprise Storage, SAN, NAS, and Backup Administration Environment.
• Support enterprise storage arrays, storage connectivity, and storage provisioning.
• Ensure storage availability, performance, capacity, and data protection.
• Support backup, snapshots, replication, recovery, and DR readiness.
• Perform storage upgrades, migrations, and lifecycle management.
• Support VMware, Hyper-V, Nutanix, and cloud storage environments.
• Coordinate with IT, application, infrastructure, backup, and OEM teams for storage-related issues.
• Maintain storage security, compliance, documentation, and operational readiness.