HPE Storage Engineer

HPE Storage Engineer This role has been designed as ‘Hybrid’ with an expectation that you will work on average 2 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 varied 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. 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. What you need to bring: Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (or Equivalent). Flexible to work in 24X7 support environment 5.8+ years in SAN & Storage administration, 5 years particular to HPE storage. Good HPE storage exposure: Alletra 3PAR Primera Nimble He has rated himself 4.5 out of 5 working with HPE storage. Migration, provisioning, zoning, LUN allocation, Brocade switches Incident and escalation management exposure ServiceNow usage and operational support Must have Recent 4 years of strong HPE storage, Installing, Configuring & Troubleshooting of at least 2 of the storage skills Scality, DDN Storage, GPFS, Luster, Good written and verbal communication skills (Mandatory). 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, 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 We strive to provide our team members and their loved ones with a comprehensive suite of benefits that supports their physical, financial and emotional wellbeing. 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. Unconditional Inclusion We are unconditionally inclusive in the way we work and celebrate individual uniqueness. We know varied 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. Let's Stay Connected: Follow @HPECareers on Instagram to see the latest on people, culture and tech at HPE. #india #operations Job: ServicesJob Level: Specialist HPE is an Equal Employment Opportunity/ Veterans/Disabled/LGBT employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, or any other protected category, and all decisions we make are made on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need. 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