Storage Engineer

· Design, architect, and deploy HPE 3PAR and Alletra storage solutions based on customer business, performance, and availability requirements.

· Lead technical discussions with customers and internal stakeholders to understand workload needs and propose optimal storage designs.

· Manage 3PAR/Alletra arrays including CPGs, virtual volumes, VLUNs, host sets, and port configurations.

· Perform advanced troubleshooting and root cause analysis (RCA) for complex storage, SAN, and performance issues.

· Plan and execute storage migrations using Peer Motion, Online Import, and host-based migration tools with minimal downtime.

· Administer and troubleshoot SAN fabrics (Brocade/Cisco) including zoning, ISLs, firmware upgrades, and fabric resiliency.

· Optimize storage performance and efficiency through RAID selection, tiering, chunklet layout, and adaptive optimization.

· Implement and manage replication and DR solutions such as Remote Copy, Peer Persistence, and metro cluster configurations.

· Integrate storage with virtualization and OS platforms (VMware, Hyper-V, Linux, Windows) and resolve multipathing issues.

· Manage firmware, OS, and controller upgrades ensuring non-disruptive operations and rollback readiness.

· Leverage HPE InfoSight and SSMC for proactive monitoring, capacity forecasting, and health analysis.

· Coordinate with backup teams and customers to integrate storage with Commvault / NetBackup for application-consistent backups.

· Prepare and deliver technical presentations to customers on storage architecture, performance analysis, and solution proposals.

· Provide regular operational and executive-level reports covering capacity utilization, performance trends, risks, and recommendations.

· Act as escalation point for critical production incidents and major outages.

· Collaborate with application, database, network, and virtualization teams to align storage design with end-to-end solutions.

· Ensure security, compliance, and governance through encryption, RBAC, audit logging, and best-practice controls.

· Automate and standardize storage operations using CLI, REST APIs, and scripting to improve efficiency and reliability.

· Mentor L1/L2 engineers and review change requests, SOPs, and implementation plans.

· Participate in CAB meetings, customer reviews, and vendor engagements (HPE) while supporting 24×7 mission-critical environments.

· 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.