Senior Storage Engineer - Hyper-V / Nutanix

Description :

Position : Storage Engineer L3

Location : Mumbai (Khar Road)

Work Model : Work from Office

Experience Required : 8+ Years

Notice Period : Immediate Joiners

Role Overview :

We are seeking a highly skilled Storage Engineer (L3) with extensive hands-on experience in data center storage implementation. The ideal candidate should possess strong technical expertise across leading enterprise storage solutions and be capable of handling complex deployment and integration tasks.

Note : This role is for implementation engineers only not for storage administrators.

Key Responsibilities :

• Storage Provisioning : Creating and allocating storage volumes (LUNs, shares, etc.), zoning and masking (SAN), and setting up file systems (NFS, SMB, iSCSI).
• Storage Installation & Configuration : Initial setup of storage arrays (NetApp, Pure Storage, Dell EMC, etc.), RAID configuration, controller setup, and firmware / OS upgrades.
• Performance & Monitoring : Monitoring IOPS, throughput, latency, and performing bottleneck analysis, tuning, and capacity forecasting.
• Backup & Recovery : Snapshot management, integration with backup tools (Commvault, Veeam, Rubrik), replication (local / remote), and restore verification.
• Data Migration : Executing migrations between arrays or to the cloud with minimal downtime, ensuring validation and data integrity.
• Storage Security : Implementing access control, encryption, and compliance (GDPR, HIPAA, etc.).
• High Availability & Disaster Recovery : Configuring replication and failover systems, DR planning / testing, and geo-redundancy setup.
• Cloud & Virtualization Integration : Working with VMware, Hyper-V, Nutanix vSAN, AWS EBS, and Azure Disks.
• Troubleshooting & Incident Response : Diagnosing storage issues, handling hardware failures, and analyzing logs for root-cause resolution.

Required Skills & Experience :

(ref : hirist.tech)