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Senior Solutions Engineer

Hitachi Vantarakolkata, India

6 hours ago

Job description

Location : Kolkata

Function : HV Engineering

Requisition ID : Our Company

We’re Hitachi Vantara, the data foundation trusted by the world’s innovators. Our resilient, high-performance data infrastructure means that customers – from banks to theme parks – can focus on achieving the incredible with data.

If you’ve seen the Las Vegas Sphere, you’ve seen just one example of how we empower businesses to automate, optimize, innovate – and wow their customers. Right now, we’re laying the foundation for our next wave of growth. We’re looking for people who love being part of a diverse, global team – and who get excited about making a real-world impact with data.

The team

The Hitachi Vantara Solutions Architecture and Engineering team is looking for a solutions architect who will deliver data center converged – integrated compute, storage, and networking – infrastructure solutions that address the challenges and inefficiencies of the traditional data center in enterprise accounts. The candidate will be responsible for architect, design, implement, test, automate and documentation of Virtualization solution integrations built on Hitachi Vantara’s Integrated Platform. The candidate will develop as well as provide ongoing recommendations and best practices for customers from both technical and operational perspectives.

The role

Research, design, implement, test, troubleshoot, automate, and document architectures for virtualized solutions on Hitachi Unified Converged Platform

Develop and deliver test plans, lab reports, best practices, technical presentations, analyst briefings, and white papers to address various areas of Hitachi Vantara Solutions Architecture and Engineering.
Be the technical focal point for solution segment(s) that you are assigned.
Work with stakeholders and partners (if appropriate) to properly set test (and performance) goals. After the agreement, develop, review, and execute test plan. Debug issues as they come up. Testing can be done with the Hitachi Vantara lab environment or an outside lab if appropriate.
Responsible for ongoing recommendations and best practices for Hitachi Integrated Platform Converged and Hyper-Converged solutions around business continuity, high availability, security, backup, recovery, and archiving.
Responsible for working directly with solutions engineering teams that develop Integrated Platform for virtualization products from inception to product GA.
Responsible for ongoing management of configuration and layout of Integrated Platform infrastructure

What you’ll bring

Excellent knowledge in enterprise virtualization solutions using Broadcom / VMware, RedHat, Microsoft Hyper-V as well as Containers and container orchestration (Dockers, Kubernetes, Mesos).

Excellent knowledge in vSAN and VCF

Solid understanding of the hardware and software components of servers and networks and know how to select, install, upgrade, and replace server hardware, such as processors, memory, disks, and controllers.

Hands on experience working with Python, UNIX shell scripting and IT automation / orchestration technologies such as Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Jenkins, Terraform etc.

Hands on experience working with hardware (Servers, LAN / SAN switches, storage, etc.) in the data center lab.

Excellent knowledge in networking and storage protocols : Fibre Channel, Nemeroff, TCP / IP, CIFS, NFS, Storage Area Network

Good understanding of Performance tuning and benchmarking

Experience working with public cloud providers like Microsoft Azure or Google cloud or AWS

Good storage knowledge in RAID, disk-subsystem, file system, snapshot, replication, and deduplication

Experience working with different server vendors like HPE, Supermicro servers and Nvidia GPUs

Advanced troubleshooting and problem-solving skills

General Skills :

A team player and fast technology adoption is a must.

Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Excellent problem solver and ability to work independently.

Excellent internal and external customer skills. Possess the ability to work and communicate with the senior technical and executive levels including consultants, SE, DSM, PM, VP, etc.

Possess the ability to work on extremely complex problems where analysis of situations or conditions requires an evaluation of intangible variance factors with solutions in the $100K to $20M spectrum.

Exercises independent judgment in developing methods, techniques, and evaluation criterion for obtaining results and formatting these results in such a way as to benefit the corporation’s customers, partners, SALES, REVENUE, and overall PROFIT.

Ability to justify and quantify findings and analysis where decisions would impact customers, partners, SALES, REVENUE, and PROFIT, as well as HITACHI VANTARA’ reputation.

About us We’re a global team of innovators. Together, we harness engineering excellence and passion for insight to co-create meaningful solutions to complex challenges. We turn organizations into data-driven leaders that can a make positive impact on their industries and society. If you believe that innovation can inspire the future, this is the place to fulfil your purpose and achieve your potential. #LI - SP7

Championing diversity, equity, and inclusion

Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) are integral to our culture and identity. Diverse thinking, a commitment to allyship, and a culture of empowerment help us achieve powerful results. We want you to be you, with all the ideas, lived experience, and fresh perspective that brings. We support your uniqueness and encourage people from all backgrounds to apply and realize their full potential as part of our team.

How we look after you

We help take care of your today and tomorrow with industry-leading benefits, support, and services that look after your holistic health and wellbeing. We’re also champions of life balance and offer flexible arrangements that work for you (role and location dependent). We’re always looking for new ways of working that bring out our best, which leads to unexpected ideas. So here, you’ll experience a sense of belonging, and discover autonomy, freedom, and ownership as you work alongside talented people you enjoy sharing knowledge with.

We’re proud to say we’re an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, age, disability status or any other protected characteristic.  Should you need reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know so that we can do our best to set you up for success.

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