Storage Consultant_EMC_NetApp

Position : Storage Consultant_EMC_NetApp

Location : Melbourne, FL / Frisco, TX / Morrisville, NC - Onsite

Duration : 1 Years

• Experience in handling DELL EMC, Synology, Tintri, Netapp and backup products & its features as for the latest release
• Should be able to understand and explain the backup internal architecture and working of various inbuilt components
• Should have hands on knowledge and experience in Implementing, upgrading, migrating and configuring backup servers across heterogeneous platforms
• Should have worked on multiple vendor products and hyperscale appliances for backup

Should have configured the Monitoring tools for alerting and reporting backup, hardware, operational reports highlighting issues and the status of the environment (ops manager, BMC)

Experienced to provide analysis and implementation support for data protection solutions initial implementations.

Experienced on customization and integration with the intent of optimizing the operational environment as well as day to day and long-term management.

Experienced in handling and managing multiple backup agent backups (Oracle RMAN, NDMP, SQL, Exchange, Virtual servers etc.)

Experienced, knowledge or hands on handling heterogeneous environment (Solaris, HPUX, AIX, Microsoft Windows, and Linux platforms) as it relates to backup and recovery

Experience in integration with Hyper-V, VMWARE virtual environments

Knowledge of Backup related tools, storage appliances (EMC,NetApp,etc), storage library (quantum, IBM, HP) media (LTO, ultrium, DLT)

Should be able to see logs and error messages, Analyze, resolve, guide and take preventive action for the escalated issues related to product and devices hardware problems

Should have expert level experience in handling Data migrations, backup catalog import / export, recovery, DR (Disaster Recovery) and Ransomware protection

Provide storage infrastructure system management and proactively address potential issues

Provision and configure storage volumes, disk pools, raid groups, over various storage systems (EMC, Hitachi, NetApp, Dell, Pure)

Design, implement, and optimize storage solutions for high availability and performance.

Configure, manage and troubleshoot the SAN fabric like Brocade or Cisco switches

Implement zoning, masking, and host connectivity changes as per best practices

Configure, manage the block storage (iSCSI, FC, NVMe-oF) and file storage (SMB, NFS, S3) and decommissioning

Optimize storage pools, deduplication, compression, and QoS settings

Managing capacity planning, performance monitoring and tuning, security management etc

Perform capacity forecasting and ensure efficient utilization of storage resources.

Manage snapshot-based backups, SafeMode snapshots, and immutable storage for ransomware protection

Storage Automation & Scripting (Optional / Preferred)

Able to integrate monitoring tools like CloudIQ, ActiveIQ, etc

Sound knowledge on Dell equallogic

Manage and optimize storage provisioning via REST API / SNMP integrations.

Maintain detailed documentation & compliance with storage configurations and changes.

Ensure compliance with IT security policies and industry best practices.

Participate in audits and provide necessary storage-related information.

Work on storage backup and disaster recovery (DR) strategies

Synology :

Tintri :

NetApp :

Pure Storage :

Soft Skills :

Other Skills :

Experience with storage build, installation, migration and upgrades