Senior Information Technology Consultant (Contract Role)

Responsibilities

• Administer enterprise storage environments, including SAN/NAS storage provisioning, capacity expansion, connectivity management, and performance optimization.

• Manage VMware virtualization infrastructure, including ESXi hosts, vCenter, vSAN clusters, virtual machine provisioning, and resource allocation.

• Configure and maintain storage connectivity between virtualization hosts and storage systems using iSCSI and Fibre Channel technologies.

• Monitor storage utilization, datastore capacity, infrastructure health, and performance metrics to identify and resolve potential bottlenecks.

• Manage enterprise backup solutions, including backup scheduling, policy configuration, job monitoring, retention management, and restoration activities.

• Troubleshoot backup failures, validate data integrity, and perform periodic recovery tests to ensure the availability of critical business data.

• Implement and maintain disaster recovery solutions using VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) or Azure Site Recovery.

• Execute replication monitoring, recovery plan validation, and disaster recovery failover/failback testing in line with defined RPO and RTO targets.

• Perform VMware infrastructure maintenance, including virtual machine migrations, snapshot management, cluster maintenance, patching, and upgrades.

• Conduct infrastructure troubleshooting and root-cause analysis to resolve recurring storage, virtualization, backup, and recovery issues.

• Support infrastructure changes, firmware maintenance, and lifecycle activities while minimizing disruption to production workloads.

• Maintain technical documentation, including storage configurations, backup procedures, disaster recovery plans, operational runbooks, and incident records.

• Collaborate with server, network, application, and security teams to resolve cross-functional infrastructure issues.

• Monitor infrastructure availability and capacity, identify potential risks, and recommend improvements to reliability and operational efficiency.

Requirements

• Minimum Bachelor's or higher in Information Technology, Computer Science or any related discipline.

• Minimum 7 years of relevant experience in IT infrastructure, VMware administration, storage management, enterprise backup, and disaster recovery.

• Strong hands-on experience in SAN/NAS Storage Administration, including storage provisioning, capacity management, datastore expansion, and performance troubleshooting.

• Practical experience administering VMware ESXi, vCenter, and vSAN, including virtual machine operations, cluster management, and shared storage environments.

• Experience with at least one enterprise backup platform: Veeam, Commvault, or Veritas NetBackup, covering backup policy management, job troubleshooting, retention, and restoration.

• Hands-on experience with Disaster Recovery solutions, preferably VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) or Azure Site Recovery, including replication management and failover/failback testing.

• Experience with iSCSI, Fibre Channel, storage connectivity, and virtualized infrastructure dependencies.

• Experience in backup validation, recovery procedures, RPO/RTO concepts, and disaster recovery readiness.

• Experience in enterprise production support, incident management, root-cause analysis, and change management.

• Experience in HPE server infrastructure, hardware lifecycle management, and firmware compatibility is an advantage.

• Experience in infrastructure automation or scripting using PowerShell, PowerCLI, or Python is desirable.

• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, documentation, and cross-team coordination skills.

• Experience supporting enterprise VMware and storage environments in production.

• Experience in infrastructure monitoring, capacity planning, and performance optimization.

• Microsoft Azure certification is preferred.

Backup Software: Commvault, NetBackup, Acronis

Backup Appliance: HyperScale X Appliance, NetBackup Flex Appliance

Storage boxes: Dell-EMC, HPE, Pure Storage

SAN Switches: Brocade SAN switches, Cisco SAN switches

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