Storage Specialist Midrand

Manpowergroup Sa; Gauteng; On-site; ZAR 600 000 - 800 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency in South Africa is seeking a skilled candidate responsible for maintaining storage and compute hardware, focusing on disaster recovery strategies and vendor management. The ideal candidate has over 5 years of experience in an enterprise IT environment and holds relevant IT certifications. This role offers competitive annual remuneration with opportunities for professional development.

Qualifications

• Grade 12 required.
• 5+ years' experience in an enterprise IT environment.
• ITIL, A+, and N+ certifications required.

Responsibilities

• Maintain storage and compute hardware.
• Engage in disaster recovery testing.
• Monitor system compliance and performance.

Skills

Performance analysis

Troubleshooting

Data recovery strategies

Capacity management

Vendor management

Technical leadership

Education

Undergraduate degree / diploma in IT

Tools

HPE 3PAR StoreServ

MSA storage solutions

Brocade SAN

Job description

Overview

AK-1The successful candidate will be responsible for maintaining storage, SAN, and compute hardware by providing OEM best practices through designing, implementing, and deploying shared system resources, such as disks and networking.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities include performance analysis, troubleshooting, data recovery strategies for critical systems, and data backup measures. Duties & Responsibilities:

• Monitor, contribute, and report on compliance to documented protocols to ensure contractual objectives are achieved.
• Maintain short‑term and long‑term capacity and availability goals to deliver day‑to‑day services.
• Develop and partake in the policies, procedures, and organizational capability to establish sufficient capacity to manage continuity and disaster recovery.
• Participate in any incident that leads to a disastrous event.
• Engage in annual disaster recovery testing as required and specified in the contract.
• Participate in GORT IT DR plans, policies, and strategies.
• Storage provisioning.
• Zoning.
• Firmware maintenance (SAN, storage, blade chassis, physical servers).

Requirements & Qualifications

• Grade 12.
• Undergraduate degree / diploma in IT or currently working towards completing a degree / diploma in IT.
• Various hardware vendor experience and certifications.
• ITIL certification.
• A+ and N+ certification.
• IT enterprise‑size DR, plan, implement, and maintain.
• Managing HPE 3PAR StoreServ I, experience or certified.
• Managing HPE 3PAR StoreServ II, experience or certified.
• Implementing MSA storage solutions, experience or certified.
• Brocade SAN enterprise experience, experience or certified.
• 5+ years' experience in an enterprise IT environment.
• Knowledge of systems and systems integration.
• Vendor management.
• Managing 15 petabytes.
• Technical lead for plan, build, and operate.
• HPE 3PAR series.
• HPE MSA.
• HPE blade chassis series.
• HPE physical servers (various models).
• SAN – physical and fabrics (director class, blade chassis switches).
• Hardware repairs.
• Maintain HPE reporting integration (on‑prem and cloud).

Package & Remuneration

Annually.

Application Note

Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.