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Job Description

Job Title: Technical Support Professional – Storage

Your Role and Responsibilities

• Ensure SLAs and Operational KPI are met
• Work as necessary with internal and external support functions when and where major incidents occur
• Attending and contributing to team and project meetings
• Contributing to the improvement or standard procedures and documentation
• Provide Hitachi storage management and integration services, storage migration, and provisioning to Hitachi Enterprise Platforms
• Data gathering and validation of source arrays or environment
• Implementation of storage design on target systems
• Migration methodology pre-meetings or validation with customer
• Migration of hosts setup and testing
• Provide Documentation of target systems design and host mapping layout
• Periodic Reporting and produce reports in terms of health of the environment
• Monitoring of storage ticket queues, storage device performance, storage integration with systems
• Attending and contributing to team and project meetings

The candidate Must be Familiar with

• Hitachi HCS and RestAPI Server
• Host Operating Systems: Windows, AIX, Linux , VMware
• Host both Physical and Virtual, HBA, SAN; fabric zoning, storage mapping
• Brocade switch support and SAN Fabric Zoning
• Migration Techniques; Hitachis Non Disruptive Migration software
• Designing, planning and setting up enterprise class storage systems
• Capacity planning and data migrations
• Recommend improvements and or alternatives
• Collaborate with other technology groups or interrelated groups to provide technical, operational and innovative expertise
• Performing Root Cause Analysis and implementing preventative measures
• Supporting and assisting with a Disaster Recovery infrastructure and procedures
• Proactively monitor health and performance of systems and infrastructure
• Document the environment portfolio and create or maintain operational procedures

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Minimum of Bachelor Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or relevant program and additional Certifications a plus.
• Minimum 5 years of working with Hitachi Storage infrastructure.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to assist in resolving various systems issues for multiple integrated locations and systems