Storage Specialist

Midrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Job Description


Job Summary

KPI's will be (but not limited to):

  • Responsible for installations, maintenance, corrective maintenance, monitoring the environment, testing, temporary resolutions and advanced 3rd level diagnosis.
  • May be required to travel to the associated airports when required.
  • Attend meetings with the client and other stakeholders.
  • Responsible for drawings, documentation, change requests, quality control and planning prior to the commencement of any works.
  • To be primarily utilized within the project environment, but will be used in the operational environment from time-to-time
Support Services
  • Support the in-scope operating system, system management software and operating system utilities, including minor upgrades (such as a release upgrade)
  • Manage the operating system configuration including initial configuration, modifying configuration files, system configuration documentation and access to system configuration files
  • Monitor and reduce operating system log files to prevent file systems from overfilling
  • Manage Operating System Processes (e.g., investigate continuously running system subtasks, or daemons) including refreshing processes as required, establishing start-up sequences, maintaining system clock synchronization, and changing process priorities as appropriate.
  • Recommend operating system updates and configuration modification to the client's IT Infrastructure Engineer, as required
  • Apply operating system patch updates, as required
  • Maintain tools for remote management and alert monitoring
  • Maintain operational support procedures
  • Maintain the hardware and software configuration information
  • Evaluate planned changes to the server environment and advise of any requirements to support such changes
  • Adhere to standard security processes and procedures
  • Provide health check and trending reports that include best practices as prescribed by the OEM
Performance Management
  • Manage incidents, problems, changes and other service requests pertaining to hardware, software and monitoring.
  • Manage thresholds and alerts for usage of IT resources.
  • Analyze performance service level breaches, alerts, trends and root causes to restore service.
  • Track and tune proactively performance through trend and exception reporting to avoid possible service level breaches.
  • Tune reactively to restore service for performance incidents and root causes.
  • Provide corrective action to resolve system performance problems and provide recommendations to prevent possible future incidents.
  • Recommend changes to maintain agreed upon system performance levels.
  • Implement after hours' changes as approved through a formal change management process.
  • Define performance related metrics and data collection, summarization, and usage requirements.
  • Collect, summarize and store performance data (Standard Performance Data Management).
  • Define performance alert thresholds to support agreed upon service levels.
  • Provide Standard Performance Reporting.
  • Provide Ad hoc Performance Reporting for analysis of incidents to restore service.
Minimum Requirements:
  • Matric - Senior Certificate
  • OEM (Dell) Accreditation in Storage and Back-up in some of these certs
  • Associate - Information Storage and Management Version 5.0
  • Dell Unity XT Unified Storage Solution
  • Dell EMC Integrated Data Protection Appliance
  • Dell EMC PowerStore
  • Technology Architect, Midrange Storage Solutions
  • Veeam Certified Engineer
  • 6+ Years' Experience and professional knowledge in Storage and Backup Services.
  • End to end troubleshooting skills for effective problem resolution of all Storage and Backup issues
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills with ability to coordinate work activities with remote teams
  • Strong analytical and conceptualization skills (e.g., the ability to "join the dots", and communicate this at multiple levels)
  • Working effectively within local and distributed teams
**Please Note : Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted**

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Job Detail

  • Job Id
    JD1254858
  • Industry
    Not mentioned
  • Total Positions
    1
  • Job Type:
    Full Time
  • Salary:
    Not mentioned
  • Employment Status
    Permanent
  • Job Location
    Midrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
  • Education
    Not mentioned