Storage Backup Specialist

Hewlett Packard Enterprise India Private Limited; Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 1,200,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Career development programs

Inclusive culture

Job summary

Hewlett Packard Enterprise India Private Limited is seeking a Storage Backup Expert to support storage infrastructure and operating systems within a hybrid work model. The role requires providing ITIL-aligned infrastructure support, transition assistance, and proactive problem solving to ensure customer success.

Ideal candidates will have 6–7+ years of Storage & Backup administration experience, familiarity with Zerto/Vault, Veeam, Commvault, and Linux OS on RHEL/SUSE.

Qualifications

• Broad technical knowledge on storage backup solutions including installation, configuration and troubleshooting.
• Experience with transition/ transformation projects in IT infrastructure.
• Ability to work in 24x7 rotational shifts and weekends.
• Strong written and verbal communication are mandatory.

Responsibilities

• Operate, administer and consult on storage infrastructure and OS per contract terms.
• Provide technical input and recommendations for deals and transitions.
• Manage end-to-end lifecycle support: planning, installation, monitoring, troubleshooting, and de-installation.

Skills

Storage & Backup administration

Zerto / Vault

Veeam

Commvault

Linux administration (RHEL/SUSE)

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering

Tools

Red Hat Satellite

SUSE Manager

ITIL

Job description

Storage Backup Expert Storage Backup Expert This role has been designed as 'Hybrid' with a requirement that you will work on average 2 days per week from an HPE office.

Who We Are:

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work. We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today’s complex world. Our culture thrives on finding new and better ways to accelerate what’s next. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good. If you are looking to stretch and grow your career our culture will embrace you. Open up opportunities with HPE.

Job Description:

HPE Operations is our innovative IT services organization. It provides the expertise to advise, integrate, and accelerate our customers’ outcomes from their digital transformation. Our teams collaborate to transform insight into innovation. In today’s fast paced, hybrid IT world, being at business speed means overcoming IT complexity to match the speed of actions to the speed of opportunities. Deploy the right technology to respond quickly to market possibilities. Join us and redefine what’s next for you.

What you’ll do:

The candidate provides Operate, Admin and Consulting support on Storage infrastructure and the Operating system in accordance with contractually established terms and conditions and established technical standards. Provides technical input, solutions, and recommendations to deal pursuit. Engaged in and provides support for transition/ transformation efforts. Provides IT infrastructure and/ or application infrastructure lifecycle technical support, including planning, project management, installation, on- going management/ monitoring/ troubleshooting, and de- installation, following operational policies and processes that are compliant with industry standards (e.g. Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)). Manages the technical/ service relationship between the company and the customer, and between the company and subcontractors/ vendors. Works with the key customers and/ or internal businesses/ end user representatives (Infrastructure Support Managers, Client Manager and the Account Delivery Manager) to retain customers and build the business.

Key Responsibilities:

• Resolve customer’s issues via the telephone, email or remote sessions.
• Reproduce issues in-house and responding back in a timely manner.
• Regular follow ups with customers with recommendations, updates and action plans.
• Identify and escalate issues in a timely manner to vendor according to Standard Operating Procedures.
• Leverage internal technical expertise, including peers, mentors, knowledge base, community forums and other internal tools, to provide the most effective solutions to customer issues.
• Collaborate with other CoE/HW teams in diagnosing and isolating the cause of complex issues.
• Provide consulting support in his/her area of expertise
• Maintain quality on case documentation, SLA timeframes and operational metrics.
• Performs within the Productivity Measure of the team (scorecard)
• Resolve single and cross technology incidents independently.
• Lead the team members to resolve complex or cross technology incidents.
• Identify, manage, and lead technical escalations.
• Participate in formal Escalation when required to support escalation especially during crisis.
• Proactively and reactively look for solutions to prevent problems from occurring in team/technology area.
• Perform Trend and Root cause analysis.
• Independently prepare, review, implement, rollback and test plan for change records.
• Perform risk and impact analysis for changes, May lead or participate in a Change Advisory Board.
• Apply patch and security changes per policy.
• Proactively monitor the environment for patch compliance.
• Analyze patches for compatibility with each customer or internal infrastructure environment.
• Ensure Configuration Management Database (CMDB) entries are complete and accurate.

Good written and verbal communication skills (Mandatory).

Must Have: Broad technical knowledge on ISS solutions – Installing, Configuring & Troubleshooting of at least 2 of the Backup skills Zerto/Vault, Veeam, Commvault. Firmware and management experience on above Storage Basic Operating Systems Knowledge – Install, configure, administration and troubleshoot RHEL/SUSE (as Bare-Metal OS & as VMs on Hypervisors) Knowledge on SAN, NAS technologies (Ethernet / iSCSI, FC, FCOE) Disaster Recovery planning and conducting DR tests. Performed routine Performance Analysis, Capacity analysis, security audit analysis reports to customer for necessary planned changes Linux Vulnerability assessment and Mitigation HPE Service Guard cluster on Linux and in Integration with Database and ERP Solution Knowledge on Patch deployment solutions – Redhat Satellite , SuSE Manager Troubleshooting performance related issues on HW and Operating system Working knowledge on AIX , Redhat , CentOS , SUSE Linux and HP UX Should be ready to work in 24x7 rotational shifts and on weekends. Good written and verbal communication skills (Mandatory). Zeal for going the extra mile to solve customer issues. Complex troubleshooting experience and Logical Problem-solving approach Ability to work in a Solution environment, collaborating across Technology Teams.

What you need to bring:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (or Equivalent).
• Experience: Minimum 6-7 years of experience in Storage & Backup administration support
• Should possess strong knowledge & relevant certification on the latest track like Zerto/Vault, Commvault is preferable.
• Relevant certification on the latest track like will be an added advantage.
• Should also possess knowledge on server/operating system technology and good understanding of other domains such as storage/SAN/networking/database
• Flexible to work in 24X7 support environment ITIL certification is an added advantage

What We Can Offer You:

• Health & Wellbeing We strive to provide our team members and their loved ones with a comprehensive suite of benefits that supports their physical, financial and emotional wellbeing.
• Personal & Professional Development We also invest in your career because the better you are, the better we all are. We have specific programs catered to helping you reach any career goals you have — whether you want to become a knowledge expert in your field or apply your skills to another division.
• Unconditional Inclusion We are unconditionally inclusive in the way we work and celebrate individual uniqueness. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good.

Job: Services Job Level: Expert HPE is an Equal Employment Opportunity/ Veterans/Disabled/LGBT employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, or any other protected category, and all decisions we make are made on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need. Our goal is to be one global team that is representative of our customers, in an inclusive environment where we can continue to innovate and grow together. Hewlett Packard Enterprise is EEO Protected Veteran/ Individual with Disabilities. HPE will comply with all applicable laws related to employer use of arrest and conviction records, including laws requiring employers to consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories.

Experience Level Senior Level

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