Backup and Storage Administrator - Pune, Maharashtra, India - BMC Software
Description
Basic Information:
Country:
India
State:
Maharashtra
City:
Pune
Date Published:
10-May-2024
Job ID:
41865
Travel:
up to 10%
Description and Requirements:
LI-SG1
"At BMC trust is not just a word - it's a way of life"
We are an award-winning, equal opportunity, culturally diverse, fun place to be. Giving back to the community drives us to be better every single day. Our work environment allows you to balance your priorities, because we know you will bring your best every day. We will champion your wins and shout them from the rooftops. Your peers will inspire, drive, support you, and make you laugh out loud
We help our customers free up time and space to become an Autonomous Digital Enterprise that conquers the opportunities ahead - and are relentless in the pursuit of innovation
About the team:
You'll join a team of Backup and SAN Engineers primarily focused on Infrastructure Storage, Backup and Restoration of mission critical data.
You'll also be required to perform Fiber channel zoning and light storage array work (provisioning LUNS, adding NFS and CIFS shares, etc).
- **Responsibilities:-**:
- You will manage and maintain storage infrastructure, including SAN (Storage Area Network) and NAS (Network Attached Storage) environments, ensuring optimal performance and availability.
- Configure, deploy, and administer backup and recovery solutions, including backup software, tape libraries, diskbased backups, and cloudbased backup services.
- Develop and implement backup and retention policies to ensure data integrity, compliance, and disaster recovery readiness.
- Monitor storage and backup systems for performance, capacity utilization, and health, proactively identifying and resolving issues to minimize downtime and data loss.
- Automate routine storage and backup tasks using scripting languages (e.g., PowerShell, Python, Ansible, terraform) and automation frameworks to streamline operations and improve efficiency.
- Collaborate with other IT teams and business units to understand storage and backup requirements, providing recommendations and implementing solutions to meet their needs.
- Perform capacity planning and forecasting to anticipate storage and backup growth and scale infrastructure accordingly.
- Stay current with industry trends and best practices in storage and backup technologies, recommending and implementing improvements to enhance system performance, reliability, and security.
- Participate in the evaluation, selection, and implementation of new storage and backup technologies, conducting proofofconcept testing and performance benchmarking.
- Document storage and backup configurations, procedures, and troubleshooting steps, ensuring knowledge transfer and compliance with internal policies and standards.
- Comfortable writing code to automate APIdriven tasks at scale. (Python preferred.)
- Architect and implement automations to autoremediate/selfheal issues in production.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, or related field.
- 5+ years of experience in storage and backup administration, preferably in enterprise environments.
- Proficiency in administering storage arrays from vendors such as Hitachi, EMC, NetApp, or Dell.
- Experience with backup software and technologies such as Veeam Backup & Replication, or Commvault, Data Domain
- Strong understanding of SAN and NAS protocols, including Fibre Channel, iSCSI, NFS, and SMB.
- Handson experience with automation tools and scripting languages for task automation and orchestration. Certification in Ansible/Terraform will be added advantage.
- Knowledge of virtualization technologies (VMware, Hyper-V) and their integration with storage and backup systems.
- Excellent troubleshooting skills and the ability to analyze complex storage and backup issues.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with crossfunctional teams.
Automation Task:
- Develop scripts or workflows to automate storage provisioning tasks, such as creating LUNs, volumes, and file systems, based on predefined templates or user requests. Implement automation scripts to schedule and orchestrate backup jobs, including full, incremental, and differential backups, and verify backup integrity. Automate capacity monitoring and forecasting tasks using scripting and monitoring tools to proactively identify storage bottlenecks and plan for future growth. Develop automation workflows to perform routine maintenance tasks, such as firmware upgrades, storage pool rebalancing, and disk replacement, minimizing manual intervention. Integrate storage and backup systems with monitoring and alerting tools to automate incident detection and remediation, reduci
More jobs from BMC Software
-
Front End
Pune, India - 2 weeks ago
-
Associate Information Developer
Maharashtra, India - 1 day ago
-
Mainframe Operator
Pune, India - 1 week ago
-
Mainframe Operator
Pune, India - 3 weeks ago
-
Instructional Designer
Pune, Maharashtra, India - 2 weeks ago
-
Assoc Solution Engineer
New Delhi, India - 3 days ago