Senior Infrastructure SRE, Object Storage
Function
ServicesOur 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.
Job description
ROLE SUMMARY:
The Senior Infrastructure SRE, works as part of a small L3 Support team responsible for the delivery of NextGen Archive (NGA) and Enterprise Vault Services to a specific client based on agreed SLAs, maintaining a high level of customer satisfaction.
The role is involved in daily operations, including Change Management, Capacity Management and complex incident and problem resolution.
He/She will apply advanced subject matter knowledge to solve complex technical issues and is regarded as a subject matter expert.
The role also provides expertise and technical guidance to functional project teams and participates in cross-functional initiatives where NGA/EV expertise is needed.
Mentoring/training junior staff members where and when required.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Act as a Senior Storage SRE within a L3 Support team with aspects of Solutions/Architect and working closely with Engineering and Vendor Support functions.
- Provision, configure, maintain and troubleshoot multiple HCP platforms, distributed across the world.
- Identify and implement improvements to enhance, optimise the NGA/EV Services, making proactive recommendations to the Service Delivery Management Team. This will include, but not be limited to, areas of capacity, performance, availability, stability, cost and support roadmaps.
- Perform periodic capacity and performance planning of the NGA/EV Services and inform the Service Delivery Management Team of key findings and recommendations.
- Respond to and resolve NGA/EV-related incidents, managing all necessary communication with other technical teams and the management team.
- Translate engineering and security standards to deliver low level design documents and large and medium-scale deployments.
- Take ownership of and perform life cycle management activities such as code and firmware upgrades.
- Support auditory, regulatory and risk and compliance initiatives that contain deliverables related to the NGA/EV services.
- Assist the Project Team as a Subject Matter Expert with respect to Solution Design and Transition of Services from Project to Operations.
- Provide On-Call support on a defined rotation with some OOH work required as needed.
Qualifications and key technical skills:
- Minimum of 7 years’ experience in Object Storage technology. Preferably HCP with HCI.
- Bachelor’s degree in a computer science related discipline, or equivalent industry experience.
- The individual will be expected to have a good knowledge of core IT protocols and systems (virtualisation, servers, networks, storage, databases, data centres, and security) and, ideally, have a system administration background. The role will demand the ability to learn new platforms and technologies and apply this knowledge to business needs.
- The individual is expected to understand the principles of backup and disaster recovery methodologies and how they relate to Archive environments.
- Fluent written and spoken English language.
Desirable Skills/experience:
(Infrastructure)
- Hitachi storage (E1090s, G700s, B26/B28s)
- Load Balancer (Pulse Secure/Ivanti)
- Network (Cisco Ethernet)
- SAN (Brocade & Cisco)
- Hitachi HCP
(Application)
- Hitachi HCI
- Workflow Design
- Knowledge of Hypervisors, VMware or KVM
- OS RHEL knowledge
- Understanding of data fields, metadata and search/indexing
- ITILv4 Certification.
- Banking/Finance IT domain experience.
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.
Fostering innovation through diverse perspectives
Hitachi is a global company operating across a wide range of industries and regions. One of the things that sets Hitachi apart is the diversity of our business and people, which drives our innovation and growth.
We are committed to building an inclusive culture based on mutual respect and merit-based systems. We believe that when people feel valued, heard, and safe to express themselves, they do their best work.
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.