Storage Engineer

VDart Inc; Spring (TX); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

VDart Inc is seeking a Storage Engineer to join our Spring, TX on-site team. You will design, deploy, and manage HPE 3PAR and Alletra storage solutions, with emphasis on performance, availability, and integration with VMware, Windows, and Linux environments.

The role requires hands-on expertise with SAN fabrics (Cisco/Brocade), LUN provisioning, migrations, and DR/backups, plus scripting for automation and adherence to ITIL practices.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with HPE Alletra and 3PAR storage arrays.
• Experience with Nimble storage and migrations.
• Strong knowledge of SAN fabrics and zoning.
• Proficient in storage performance tuning and capacity planning.
• Experience with backups and disaster recovery integrations.

Responsibilities

• Design, architect, and deploy HPE 3PAR and Alletra storage solutions.
• Lead discussions with customers to propose storage designs.
• Manage 3PAR/Alletra arrays including VLUNs and host sets.
• Troubleshoot storage, SAN, and performance issues.
• Plan migrations using Peer Motion and Online Import with minimal downtime.
• Administer SAN fabrics and perform firmware upgrades.
• Coordinate with backup teams for app-consistent backups.
• Mentor L1/L2 engineers and review change requests.
• Prepare technical presentations for customers.

Skills

Alletra storage

HP 3PAR

Nimble storage

Storage migrations

SAN backup and recovery

SAN fabrics

LUN provisioning

RAID concepts

Scripting & automation

ITIL processes

Tools

Brocade/Cisco fabric switches

Peer Motion

Online Import

InfoSight/SSMC

Commvault/NetBackup integration

REST APIs / CLI

Job description

Role Storage Engineer

Location Spring, TX(onsite)

Contract

Note :- We are looking for Storage resource with Alletra, HP 3PAR, Nimble skillset.

STORAGE JOB DESCRIPTION

• Good Knowledge on components and architectures.
• In depth understanding of the HPE Alletra, HP 3PAR, Nimble.
• Hands on experience with storage array migrations.
• Experience in SAN storage backup and recovery and exposure to SAN Data replication tools.
• Experience on Cisco and Brocade fabric switch/Directors. Configuring new switch, upgrades, zoning, VSAN and troubleshooting.
• Experience of SAN allocation, deallocation.
• Good Knowledge on RAID concepts, inline data deduplication, inline data compression.
• Dynamic LUN Provisioning, Zoning, storage firmware upgrades
• Allocating Boot luns in VMware environment
• Troubleshooting storage related and compatibility related issues.
• Allocating LUNs to different operating systems like MS Windows, VMWare ESX/ESXi, Linux and Solaris/AIX/HPUX.
• Exposure to performance tuning techniques for SAN and NAS
• Experience in handling major incident bridges, critical issues.
• Good in scripting and automating the standard storage procedures.
• Should be familiar with ITIL processes.

Roles & Responsibilities Storage (HPE 3PAR / Alletra)

1. Design, architect, and deploy HPE 3PAR and Alletra storage solutions based on customer business, performance, and availability requirements.
2. Lead technical discussions with customers and internal stakeholders to understand workload needs and propose optimal storage designs.
3. Manage 3PAR/Alletra arrays including CPGs, virtual volumes, VLUNs, host sets, and port configurations.
4. Perform advanced troubleshooting and root cause analysis (RCA) for complex storage, SAN, and performance issues.
5. Plan and execute storage migrations using Peer Motion, Online Import, and host-based migration tools with minimal downtime.
6. Administer and troubleshoot SAN fabrics (Brocade/Cisco) including zoning, ISLs, firmware upgrades, and fabric resiliency.
7. Optimize storage performance and efficiency through RAID selection, tiering, chunklet layout, and adaptive optimization.
8. Implement and manage replication and DR solutions such as Remote Copy, Peer Persistence, and metro cluster configurations.
9. Integrate storage with virtualization and OS platforms (VMware, Hyper-V, Linux, Windows) and resolve multipathing issues.
10. Manage firmware, OS, and controller upgrades ensuring non-disruptive operations and rollback readiness.
11. Leverage HPE InfoSight and SSMC for proactive monitoring, capacity forecasting, and health analysis.
12. Coordinate with backup teams and customers to integrate storage with Commvault / NetBackup for application-consistent backups.
13. Prepare and deliver technical presentations to customers on storage architecture, performance analysis, and solution proposals.
14. Provide regular operational and executive-level reports covering capacity utilization, performance trends, risks, and recommendations.
15. Act as escalation point for critical production incidents and major outages.
16. Collaborate with application, database, network, and virtualization teams to align storage design with end-to-end solutions.
17. Ensure security, compliance, and governance through encryption, RBAC, audit logging, and best-practice controls.
18. Automate and standardize storage operations using CLI, REST APIs, and scripting to improve efficiency and reliability.
19. Mentor L1/L2 engineers and review change requests, SOPs, and implementation plans.
20. Participate in CAB meetings, customer reviews, and vendor engagements (HPE) while supporting 24 7 mission-critical environments