About the position
The succesfull candidate will be responsible to maintain Storage, SAN, Compute hardware by providing OEM good practice by designing, implementing, and deploying shared system resources, like disks and networking. Provide performance analysis and troubleshooting, data recovery strategies for critical
systems, and data backup measures.
Responsibilities:
- To monitor, contribute and report on compliance to documented protocols to ensure contractual objectives are achieved.
- Maintain short-term and long-term Capacity and Availability goals to deliver on day-to-day services
- Development / partake in the policies, procedures, and organization capability to establish sufficient capacity to manage continuity and disaster recovery
- Partake in any incident that leads to a disastrous event
- Partake in annual disaster recovery testing as required and specified in the Contract
- Partake GORT IT DR plans, policies and strategies
- Storage provisioning
- Zoning
- Firmware maintenance (SAN, Storage, Blade Chassis, Physical servers)
- Maintain HPE reporting integration (On-prem and Cloud)
- Hardware repairs
Requirements:
- Grade 12
- Undergraduate degree/diploma in IT or must be currently working towards completing a Degree/Diploma in IT
- Various hardware vendor experience and certifications
- ITIL certification
- A+ and N+ Certification
- IT Enterprise size DR, plan, implement and maintain
- Managing HPE 3PAR StoreServ I, experience or certified
- Managing HPE 3PAR StoreServ II, experience or certified
- Implementing MSA Storage Solutions, experience or certified
- Brocade SAN Enterprise Experience, experience or certified
- 5+ years’ experience in an Enterprise IT Environment
Knowledge of:
- Systems and Systems Integration
- Vendor Management
- Managing 15 Petabytes
- Technical lead for Plan, Build and Operate
- HPE 3PAR (7000 series, 20800 serious)
- HPE MSA
- HPE Blade Chassis (9000 series, 7000 series)
- HPE Physical servers (Various models)
- SAN – Physical and Fabrics (Director Class, Blade Chassis switches)
Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted
Desired Skills:
- A+
- N+
- HPE 3PAR StoreServ I & II
- MSA Storage Solutions
- Brocade SAN Enterprise
