Gen Digital Looking for Princ IT Infrastructure Specialist at Chennai, Tamil Nadu Full Time

Just like we want to empower our customers, it’s important at Gen that team members have the support they need to do their best work. This includes flexible working options with generous time off, and competitive benefits and compensation packages. Diversity, equity, and inclusion are foundational to how we do business, and we strive to create safe, inclusive spaces where all employees are valued, respected, and celebrated for their individual differences and unique perspectives. Employment decisions are based on merit, experience, and business needs. Gen is an equal employment opportunity employer.

What You Will Do in This Role

Design, configure and implement NetApp AFF, Dell Compellent SC series, Hitachi G1K,5100, HCP storage systems including installation, configuration, Administration, software upgrades, storage provisioning (SAN and NAS – iSCSI/NFS/CIFS/SAN) and troubleshooting.

Managing Brocade SAN Switches. Administer Fiber Channel SAN fabrics, including installation, configuration, zoning, software upgrades, and maintenance of switches.

Configure all aspects of the backup infrastructure including disk/tape topologies as directed in various configurations using knowledge of backup concepts.

Configuration and management of Veeam, Veritas and Dell Avamar appliances.

Responsible for Storage, backup and recovery methodologies and application of these methodologies including retention, reclamation, and disaster recovery.

Advanced maintenance, data replication, disaster recovery, data migration and documentation for our Storage and Backup environments.

Create and maintain system scripts and programs to support the operations of the storage systems/NetBackup Appliances.

Troubleshoot performance and connectivity issues with storage systems, Fiber Channel SAN, and IP storage networking.

Manage, configure and maintain multi-PB multi-tiered environment.

Respond to, diagnose and remediate issues in a dynamic environment.

Operate in complex, Next Generation Secure datacenter environment and interact with other technology SMEs as required.

Report on performance and capacities and make allocation recommendations based on trending.

Participate in capacity planning and performance discussions and assist in development and execution of disaster recovery exercises.

Responsible for maintaining current microcode and software component levels.

24×7 Tier 3 support and on-call support responsibilities.

What You’ll Need to be Successful in this Role

12+ years of working Experience managing NetApp, Hitachi, Dell Compellent, Brocade switches, Veeam, Dell Avamar/Netbackup software, NBU master/media servers and client software is a must

Must have experience / working knowledge of Storage systems and Dell Avamar/ Netbackup appliances.

Knowledge of SAN fabric, tape drives, tape libraries, Deduplication, disk storage and VTL’s (virtual tape libraries).

Network knowledge, including bandwidth, NIC configuration, CIFS, NFS, SAN and NDMP is required.

Operating systems knowledge, including Windows, Linux and AIX is required.

Provide 3rd level support to tickets/requests in accordance to SLA/OLA timeframes.

Experience with various Storage technologies (snapshot, replication, tiering), VMware and Dell Avamar/Netbackup integration is required (Accelerator, Instant recovery, replication director etc)

Experience with Veeam, Dell Avamar, Netbackup Application and various agents based on the workloads.

Experience in performance, tuning and capacity planning is required

Experience with proactive monitoring, dashboards, reporting and automation is required (OpsCenter is preferred).

Knowledge of TCP/IP networking principles is critical for this role.

Knowledge of SOX/PCI compliance policy requirements for data protection is essential

Expertise with various SAN and NAS Storage technologies Netbackup software and appliances and all their capabilities such as deduplication, AIR, Accelerators, SLP, etc

Experience with Storage and Backup servers consolidation and optimization

Strong knowledge of Dell Avamar/Netbackup software technologies (Multi-Plexing, Streaming, policy management, appliances) are required

Experience in performance, tuning, and capacity planning

Vendor management is essential

Excellent people and communications skills are an absolute requirement.

Excellent troubleshooting skills are required.

Gen is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive and accessible environment for all employees. All employment decisions are based on merit, experience, and business needs, without regard to race, color, national origin, age, religion, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth or related medical conditions), genetic information, disability (physical or mental), medical condition, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression, military or veteran status, or any other consideration made unlawful by federal, state, or local law. Gen strictly prohibits unlawful discrimination based on such protected characteristics and seeks to recruit the most talented candidates from diverse cultures and backgrounds.

We also consider employment-qualified individuals with arrest and conviction records. In addition, we will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. Learn more about pay transparency.

Gen complies with all anti-discrimination laws.

To conform to U.S. export control regulations, applicant should be eligible for any required authorizations from the U.S. Government.