Job Description

• Should possess very good written & verbal communication skills along with impactful presentation skills.

• Should be a team player and should possess very good inter-personal skills.

• Proven track record developing solutions around the following Hyper Converged Infrastructure, Virtualisation (Compute/storage) data centre facilities, disaster recovery, backup and recovery, data centre consolidation, migration and relocation, cloud, data centre build and facilities, business continuity and understanding application workloads.

• Working knowledge of Operating Systems Windows and various flavour of Unix Solaris, AIX, HP Unix etc.

• Experience implementing ITIL and or operational best practices

• Experience in team management and assembling teams to perform services engagements.

• Ability to proactively track progress of all project team members and keep people (often, peers) on task

• Identify key deliverables, anticipate risks, handle trade-offs and can make decisions while being comfortable with ambiguity and change

• Ability to anticipate and head-off potential project delays (shifting business priorities, technical hurdles, project approvals from stakeholders, etc.)

• Experience working in a matrixed environment

• In depth technical knowledge of Hitachi storage products VSP G & F Series, functionality of SVOS, replication products and sound technical knowledge to implement Brocade and Cisco SAN Switches , Software products HDID, HAD, HPA.

• Handon experience and in depth knowledge of data protection technologies Hitachi Shadow copy, Thin image, Copy on write snap, True copy, Universal replicator, 3DC UR , Global active device , HDID .

• Handon experience of migration methodologies True copy, GAD, replication, Universal volume manager, Hitachi Tier Storage manager, Shadow Copy.

• Sound experience in designing and planning migrations with customer stake holders.

• Make appropriate technology recommendations in support of the operating model technology work stream providing sound solution options for senior management review and approval.

• Deep involvement in the planning and execution of the migration plans to migrate and/or

• decommission application instances and servers in scope without disruption to business groups.

• Drive meetings with Subject Matter Experts from all areas of the business including: Infrastructure, Applications, Vendors, Architects and Leads to seek input from and plan/coordinate migrations, resource requirements and timelines.

• Knowledge of various operating system and Data base migration tools.

• Automation of various tasks of migrations to improve efficiency and saving cost.

• Analysing the method of transforming existing data into a format for the new environment and the loading of this data into new environment.

• Reviewing existing migration tools and providing recommendations for improving performance of the migration process.

• Experience in working with IBM /EMC and Netapp storages would be an added advantage .