Scality Specialist EngineerThis role has been designed as ‘Hybrid’ with an expectation that you will work on average 2-3 days per week from an HPE office.
Who We Are:
Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work. We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today’s complex world. Our culture thrives on finding new and better ways to accelerate what’s next. We know diverse backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good. If you are looking to stretch and grow your career our culture will embrace you. Open up opportunities with HPE.
Job Description:
HPE Operations is our innovative IT services organization. It provides the expertise to advise, integrate, and accelerate our customers’ outcomes from their digital transformation. Our teams collaborate to transform insight into innovation. In today’s fast paced, hybrid IT world, being at business speed means overcoming IT complexity to match the speed of actions to the speed of opportunities. Deploy the right technology to respond quickly to market possibilities. Join us and redefine what’s next for you.
What you’ll do:
- The candidate provides Operate, Admin and Consulting support on Storage infrastructure and the Operating system in accordance with contractually established terms and conditions and established technical standards.
- Provides technical input, solutions, and recommendations to deal pursuit.
- Engaged in and provides support for transition/ transformation efforts.
- Provides IT infrastructure and/ or application infrastructure lifecycle technical support, including planning, project management, installation, on- going management/ monitoring/ troubleshooting, and de- installation, following operational policies and processes that are compliant with industry standards (e.g. Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)).
- Manages the technical/ service relationship between the company and the customer, and between the company and subcontractors/ vendors.
- Works with the key customers and/ or internal businesses/ end user representatives (Infrastructure Support Managers, Client Manager and the Account Delivery Manager) to retain customers and build the business.
What you need to bring:
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (or Equivalent).
- Experience: Minimum 6-7 years of experience in Storage & Backup administration support
- Should possess strong knowledge of Object, Block, File Storage technology and good understanding of Parallel & distributed file system. Additionally other domains such as storage/SAN/networking/database
- Relevant certification on the latest track like Scality, DDN Storage, GPFS, Luster will be an added advantage.
- Flexible to work in 24X7 support environment
- ITIL certification is an added advantage
Required Skills: Knowledge on object storage and Linux is must, and other skills versioning,supervisor connector, kafka, zookeper, salt stack,sofos,Elastic,Alert Elastic search,s3 connector,iperf,Metadata & data concepts, Scality Ring concepts.
Key Responsibilities:
- Resolve customer’s issues via the telephone, email or remote sessions.
- Reproduce issues in-house and responding back in a timely manner.
- Regular follow ups with customers with recommendations, updates and action plans.
- Identify and escalate issues in a timely manner to vendor according to Standard Operating Procedures.
- Leverage internal technical expertise, including peers, mentors, knowledge base, community forums and other internal tools, to provide the most effective solutions to customer issues.
- Collaborate with other CoE/HW teams in diagnosing and isolating the cause of complex issues.
- Provide consulting support in his/her area of expertise
- Maintain quality on case documentation, SLA timeframes and operational metrics.
- Performs within the Productivity Measure of the team (scorecard)
- Incident Management: Resolve single and cross technology incidents independently. Lead the team members to resolve complex or cross technology incidents.
- Escalation Management: Identify, manage, and lead technical escalations. Participate in formal Escalation when required to support escalation especially during crisis.
- Problem Management: Proactively and reactively look for solutions to prevent problems from occurring in team/technology area. Perform Trend and Root cause analysis.
- Change Management/Implementation: Independently prepare, review, implement, rollback and test plan for change records. Perform risk and impact analysis for changes, May lead or participate in a Change Advisory Board.
- Patch and Security Management: Apply patch and security changes per policy. Proactively monitor the environment for patch compliance. Analyze patches for compatibility with each customer or internal infrastructure environment.
- Configuration Management: Ensure Configuration Management Database (CMDB) entries are complete and accurate.
Must Have:- Technical knowledge on Object, File & Block storage with cloud data management solutions – Installing, Configuring & Troubleshooting of at least 2 of the storage skills Scality, DDN Storage, GPFS, Luster.
- Good Knowledge on Parallel/Distributed file system
- Firmware and management experience on above Storage
- Basic Operating Systems Knowledge – Install, configure, administration and troubleshoot RHEL/SUSE (as Bare-Metal OS & as VMs on Hypervisors)
- Knowledge on SAN, NAS technologies (Ethernet / iSCSI, FC, FCOE)
- Performed routine Performance Analysis, Capacity analysis, security audit analysis reports to customer for necessary planned changes
- Troubleshooting performance related issues on HW and Operating system
- Working knowledge on AIX , Redhat , CentOS , SUSE Linux and HP UX
- Should be ready to work in 24x7 rotational shifts and on weekends.
- Good written and verbal communication skills (Mandatory).
- Zeal for going the extra mile to solve customer issues.
- Complex troubleshooting experience and Logical Problem-solving approach
- Ability to work in a Solution environment, collaborating across Technology Teams.
Good to have:- Certification on any of the Scality, DDN Storage, GPFS, Luster.
- Operating Systems Knowledge – administration and support on Linux, VMware, Windows HyperV,
- Linux/Microsoft/VMware VCP or equivalent experience/certification will be an added advantage
- Tools Knowledge on ServiceNow
- Must achieve excellent customer satisfaction.
- Take ownership and work with high productivity and efficiency.
- Support other team members and seek their advice to make decisions on complex issues.
- Deliver trainings when required.
Additional Skills:
Accountability, Accountability, Action Planning, Active Learning (Inactive), Active Listening, Bias, Business Growth, Business Planning, Coaching, Commercial Acumen, Creativity, Critical Thinking, Cross-Functional Teamwork, Customer Experience Strategy, Customer Solutions, Data Analysis Management, Data Collection Management (Inactive), Data Controls, Design Thinking, Empathy, Follow-Through, Growth Mindset, Intellectual Curiosity (Inactive), Long Term Planning, Managing Ambiguity {+ 5 more}
What We Can Offer You:
Health & Wellbeing
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Personal & Professional Development
We also invest in your career because the better you are, the better we all are. We have specific programs catered to helping you reach any career goals you have — whether you want to become a knowledge expert in your field or apply your skills to another division.
Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging
We are unconditionally inclusive in the way we work and celebrate individual uniqueness. We know diverse backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good.
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