Senior Storage Systems Administrator

NTT DATA Global Delivery Services Ltd; Chennai; On-site; INR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

NTT DATA Global Delivery Services Ltd in Chennai is seeking a Storage Systems Administration Senior Associate to manage enterprise storage environments and ensure high availability for critical applications.

Requires 5-6 years of storage experience, strong troubleshooting skills, and the ability to collaborate with virtualization, backup and database teams. Excellent documentation and customer service are essential.

Qualifications

• 5-6 years of relevant storage experience.
• Experience with configuring and maintaining enterprise storage systems.
• Strong understanding of ITIL practices and incident management.

Responsibilities

• Configure, monitor, and maintain NetApp, Isilon, HP Primera, Nimble and Dell Unity storage.
• Perform storage provisioning, LUN creation, and host mappings.
• Manage replication, snapshots, and data reduction technologies.
• Apply firmware updates and hardware expansions.
• Coordinate with virtualization, backup, and database teams.
• Maintain runbooks and topology diagrams.

Skills

Enterprise storage

Troubleshooting

ITIL practices

Vendor coordination

Documentation

Customer service

Tools

NetApp

Isilon

HP Primera

Nimble

Dell Unity

SAN zoning

iSCSI/FC

ServiceNow

Job description

Storage Systems Administration Senior Associate

Key Responsibilities

• Requires 5-6 Years of relevant Storage experience
• Strong experience in managing enterprise Storage systems
• Configure, monitor, and maintain NetApp, Isilon, HP Primera, Nimble and Dell Unity Storage technologies
• Strong troubleshooting skills and ability to work independently on Storage Responsibilities: Dell, HP and NetApp Storage
• Perform storage provisioning, LUN creation, volume groups, and host mappings.
• Monitor performance and system health via Storage management consoles and CLI tools.
• Configure replication, snapshots, thin clones, and data reduction technologies.
• Apply firmware updates, drive replacements, and hardware expansions.
• Good understanding of RTO/RPO, disaster recovery, and data lifecycle management.
• Troubleshoot storage issues related to performance, replication, and access control.
• Provide SAN zoning, iSCSI/FC connectivity, and LUN masking for Linux/Windows/VMware hosts.
• Collaborate with virtualization, backup, and database teams to align storage with workload requirements.
• Maintain accurate documentation of configurations, runbooks, and topology diagrams.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with emphasis on customer service, including experience handling challenging situations
• Detail oriented, customer oriented, result delivery oriented, analytic thinking
• Performs incident management and change management execution.
• Creates and manages capacity and trending reports of system operations.
• Good understanding on ITIL practices
• Experience on industry leading IT Asset Management tools such as Service Now or Similar ticketing tools
• Works on assignments where considerable judgment and initiative are required in resolving problems and making choices, recommendations, or decisions.
• Works with key technical and business stakeholders to determine data and storage requirements and creates solutions to meet requirements.

Experience Level Mid Level