Specialist - System Management

Specialist - System Management

Role Title VAST Storage Administrator

Experience 8 to10 Years

Location PuneHyderabad

Shift General Shift

Primary Skills

VAST Data Platform

VAST Storage Administration

NASSAN Storage

VAST REST API

Secondary Skills

Python

Storage Automation

Dell EMC Isilon PowerScale

NetApp Pure Storage

We are seeking an experienced Storage Administrator to manage monitor and optimize our VAST Data storage platform The ideal candidate will own the daytoday health of the VAST clusters support enterprise data services NFS SMB S3 and block and partner with infrastructure backup security and application teams to ensure high availability performance and data protection across the environment

This role needs working hours aligned to UK business hours There may be occasional outofhours work with time off in lieu

Key Responsibilities

Administer and monitor the health capacity and performance of the VAST storage cluster

Provision and manage Views Quotas Tenants and protocol access for business units and applications

Plan and execute nondisruptive upgrades patches and hardware expansions

Own backup snapshot and replication schedules test and validate disaster recovery readiness

Troubleshoot performance and connectivity issues across compute network and storage layers

Maintain accurate system documentation runbooks and change records

Partner with security teams to enforce access controls encryption and compliance requirements

Engage VAST supportTAM for escalations RCA and platform roadmap planning

Required Skills Experience

VAST Data Platform Expertise

810 years strong handson experience with the VAST Data Platform

Handson administration of VAST Data clusters including the Disaggregated SharedEverything DASE architecture CBoxesCNodes compute and DBoxesDNodes storage enclosures

Proficiency with the VAST Management System VMS for cluster configuration monitoring and lifecycle management

Experience creating and managing Views View Policies Quotas and Tenants for multiprotocol data access

Configuration and troubleshooting of NFS v3v4 SMBCIFS S3 and native VAST DataBaseDataEngine protocols

Working knowledge of VASTs Similaritybased Data Reduction Global Namespace and QLC flashbased storage design

Experience with VAST Protected Views Snapshots and native asyncsync Replication for DR and business continuity

Familiarity with VAST Element Store Catalog and Insight Engine for metadata search and analytics workloads

Understanding of nondisruptive upgrades NDU firmwaresoftware patching and rolling maintenance on VAST clusters

Infrastructure Networking

Solid grasp of highspeed networking fabrics RDMARoCE InfiniBand and 100200400GbE Ethernet

Experience with NVIDIAMellanox switches and NIC configuration in NVMeoF storage environments

Working knowledge of NVMeoF NVMeTCP and sharedeverything flash storage principles

Ability to diagnose networkattached storage performance issues latency throughput packet loss

Experience integrating storage with LinuxWindows hosts hypervisors VMwareKVM and container platforms Kubernetes CSI drivers

Core Storage Administration

3 years administering enterprise NASSAN or scaleout storage platforms VAST Isilon NetApp Pure PowerScale etc

Capacity planning performance tuning and proactive monitoring of storage utilization and growth trends

Backup snapshot and disaster recovery process design execution and testing

Storage security RBAC encryption at restin transit Active DirectoryLDAP integration and audit logging

Incident response rootcause analysis and vendor VAST supportTAM escalation management

Change management and documentation practices for a regulated or enterprise IT environment

Scripting Automation Monitoring

Proficiency with VASTs REST API andor Python SDK for automation and reporting

Scripting experience in Python Bash or PowerShell for operational automation

Experience with monitoringobservability tools Prometheus Grafana Splunk or VASTs builtin telemetry

Familiarity with infrastructureascode tools Ansible Terraform is a plus

Soft Skills

Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills under production pressure

Clear written and verbal communication with both technical and nontechnical stakeholders

Ability to work crossfunctionally with network virtualization database and security teams

Comfortable participating in an oncall rotation and afterhours maintenance windows

Preferred Qualifications

VAST Data certification eg VAST Certified Administrator or completion of VAST Academy training

Experience migrating workloads from legacy NASSAN platforms to VAST

Exposure to AIML and GPUbased data pipelines eg NVIDIA DGX GPUDirect Storage

Industry certifications CompTIA Storage RHCE VMware VCP or equivalent

Bachelors degree in computer sc