SAN Storage Admin

Location: Boston , M
Must have 5+ years of experience in managing enterprise-level HPE MSA Storage Infrastructure, SAN, and
Backup environments.

Certifications in Storage Networking and Enterprise Storage technology are a big plus.
Proven experience as a Storage Administrator with hands-on experience in managing HPE MSA or similar
HPE storage solutions

Responsibilities:.
Carry out all Infrastructure storage related configuration activities including storage and hosts
zoning, storage provisioning, copy services and masking, disaster recovery configuration and
replication for the different SAN storage technologies and platforms to provide the bank
applications with the required storage with the maximum performance.
Design, Install and operate the Network Area Storage (NAS) infrastructure and work on continuous
improvement for the performance while ensuring high standard of security and vulnerabilities
remediation.
Configure, maintain and manage continuous data protection for databases and critical systems
and support during recovery of those databases and critical systems.
Review the storage platforms and SAN switches software and firmware life cycles, review vendors
functional and security newsletters and carry out software and firmware upgrades, apply fixes and
security patches.
Ensure all storage platforms and SAN switches, storage replication and continuous data protection
are monitored, logging, alerting and notifications are enabled/configured along with employing
specialized monitoring tools for each storage and SAN connectivity technology which will give
deep insights on the storage and san switches performance and healthiness in order to act
proactively on predictive failures or bugs.
Perform large scale migrations and upgrades during storage technology refreshes and capacity
upgrades to provide better storage performance, and connectivity along with storage resources
availability.
Participate in storage solutions upgrade design, architecture reviews, security reviews, capacity
planning, and performance trend analysis.
Troubleshoot storage performance, connectivity issues, replication and continuous data
protection issues along with providing root cause analysis and providing support to other teams
during issues.
Perform on-going tuning, capacity efficiency, cleansing and resources reclamation to ensure that
storage resources are being utilized optimally and to ensure the availability of storage resources.
Perform and automate ongoing health checks, capacity utilization trend analysis, and conduct risk
assessment exercises for backup solutions to ensure efficiency, availability and smooth
functionality.
Continuously ensure Disaster Recovery Readiness, replication functionality and conduct disaster
recovery tests to validate the configuration and readiness.
General storage administration tasks, storage software and hardware support, storage device
configuration, support of daily backups, monitoring of storage devices, storage performance
tuning and troubleshooting.
Working knowledge of ISCSI storage configuration and management. SAN network experience
with Brocade Fabric Switches
Sound knowledge about detecting slowness on SAN switches using tools Like BNA and SAN
navigator.
Expertise on Storage & Backup Management Tasks such as monitoring, backup and archival,
creation and modifications of LUNs, Snapshots, Data Replication, Reporting and analysis.
Troubleshoot Backup devices and manage backup policies including full, incremental, differential
/ various other backups.
Require prior experience in SAN Fabric Administration including zoning, LUN security, and HBA
configuration and troubleshooting
Configuring all (SAN) Storage Attached Network and (NAS) Network Attached Storage
infrastructure including the Fiber Channel network. Ensures that all hosts are properly configured
to use the storage infrastructure. Ensure host connectivity and configuration to Hybrid and Native
Cloud Storage solutions
Monitor storage performance, identify bottlenecks, and implement optimization strategies to
ensure optimal throughput and reliability.
Management of HPE MSA storage including storage provisioning, replication, copy data
management, and monitoring/alerting
Must have expert knowledge of fiber channel and TCP/IP protocols, SAN management software,
automation, and resource management
Conduct storage capacity planning and forecasting to accommodate future growth and changing
business requirements.
Ensure appropriate storage mediums are controlled and accounted for in the inventory, and
released to off-site processes and to on-site storage areas.

If Interested ; kindly get back with updated resume and answers:
Q1-How many years of experience in managing enterprise-level HPE MSA Storage Infrastructure, SAN, and Backup environments.
Q2-What all Certifications in Storage Networking and Enterprise Storage technology you have - kindly name them
Q3-How many years of experience as a Storage Administrator with hands-on experience in managing HPE MSA or similar HPE storage solutions
Q4-What is your presently salary and how soon you can start.