Senior Storage Engineer

Responsibilities:
 

• Administrates the IT storage infrastructure including provisioning of LUNs and Volumes to servers and Virtualized infrastructure etc;
• Administrates the Storage Area Network including managing and maintenance of the SAN fabric from host connectivity to the storage ;
• Design and build highly scalable storage systems solution;
• Installation, setup and maintenance of backup environment, backup software and support backup and restore operations ;
• Track storage utilization;
• Support with monitoring and reporting of system health/ performance of all nodes of the SAN fabric ;
• Monitor storage performance / quality and implements performance tuning to resolve performance issues;
• Create and maintain documentation as it pertains to the storage infrastructure procedures and configuration;
• Tape library configuration and tape management ;
• Report on necessary recommendations for additional storage resources or hardware and any improvements that increases performance and reliability;
• Work as part of a team and provide 24x7 support with on-call rotation ;
• Responsible for the configuration and data backup operation of the centralized backup system for all backups;
• Responsible for the investigation and fix any backup issues;
• Work with vendors to perform incident troubleshooting and root cause analyze;
• Clean up the storage media containing customer’s data before disposing or reuse of the storage media;
• Verify compliance of the operating conditions with company policy;
• Correct, repair or replace the damaged external storage media.

Requirements:

• Working knowledge with multiple storage solutions (NetApp, Oracle, EMC);
• Working knowledge with provisioning, maintenance, troubleshooting of enterprise storage systems;
• Working knowledge with Fiber Channel switches and routers;
• Working knowledge with Data Replication, Data Protection and Virtualization Technology;
• Ability to plan, document, and effectively implement projects and systems;
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills ;
• Good team player with a can-do attitude ;
• Good trouble shooting and problem solving skills;
• Fluency in English and the local language (written and verbal) ;
• French language will be considered as an advantage;
• Advanced skills in Microsoft Office, Excel, MSWord and Power Point.