Job Summary:
The Manager of Storage Team is responsible for overseeing Open System Storages in Ensono international data centers, The leader will lead regional teams and interact with global teams to minimize risk, execute change, reduce service disruptions, and optimize service delivery. This is a Multivendor storage environment with Hitachi, EMC, NetApp, Pure, IBM Storage, Brocade. This individual must have strong leadership skills and be able to influence and work effectively with Global cross functional teams and driving a best-in-class operational experience. The ideal candidate will possess exceptional communication skills, a strong problem-solving mindset, and the ability to remain calm and composed in challenging situations.
Technology
Management of Wider Range of Storage technologies Hitachi, EMC, NetApp, Pure, IBM Storage, Brocade, and others
Ensure reliability, recoverability and optimum performance of client environments
Deliver service availability at or greater than the expected contractual levels
Overseeing deploying, maintaining, and supporting solutions across the client’s Storage infrastructure
Promote Develop and utilize highly automated monitoring systems, ongoing automation in provisioning and management space to minimize human operational requirements
Collaborating with Vendors and SAM for EMC, NetApp, Hitachi,Pure,IBM
Acting as a technical leader for visible and complex projects, advocating for solutions across organizational boundaries
Provide thought leadership on client’s environments to ensure any gaps are reported and recorded with client and Ensono Technical Delivery teams
Learning on the job and exploring new technologies. Leading and encouraging team towards this constant learning mindset
Coordinate and escalate vendor-related problems, ensuring timely resolution and maintaining positive relationships.
In depth knowledge of supporting Storage technologies – Hitachi, EMC Unity, VMAX, NetApp, Pure Arrays
Designing, implementing, and supporting technology stacks working with Product Engineering teams to deliver new products and services leveraging continuous delivery and integration
People
Ensuring rotating on-call support for 24 x7 coverage of production infrastructure and applications
Managing a team tasked with implementation and operations of a storage datacenter infrastructure, datacenter administration, servers, and operations that support the applications and business processes as required
Collaborating with Project/Build teams
Collaborating with TDMs and CSMs on client concerns
Collaborating with Product Engineering teams
Being an active participant in setting direction and strategy for the team and its products/services
Active mentor in developing and educating team members, participant in setting direction and goals on an individual level
Ability to manage team members via performance reviews/appraisals and ongoing one to one session
Working with Ensono’s clients to understand their business and collaborate on how Ensono’s Storage Services team can best align with them to ensure our processes, strategies and technologies are meeting their demands and expectations
Process
Creating, managing and reporting against KPIs for the platform’s operation, overseeing all environment change management and deployment activities
Consistently improving performance and reliability as the platform scales, driving continuous improvement through operational metrics and industry best practices
Implement and maintain full operational compliance against various security and compliance requirements
Enforce company requirements and policies with diplomacy and professionalism, ensuring compliance from both internal teams and external stakeholders.
Identify and analyze cross-team failures to engage, proactively collaborating with relevant teams to address gaps and improve overall customer experience.
Creating and delivering knowledge sharing presentations and documentation to both technical and non-technical audiences inside and outside Ensono
Building best-in-class solutions for the overall monitoring, alerting, management and escalation of all technology services enabling self-service and autonomous product domain teams
Ticket queue management
Infrastructure capacity management
Infrastructure lifecycle management
Problem management
Qualifications
7+ years of technical staff management of more than 10 team members
5+ years of Storage experience and knowledge
3+ years of Unix systems administration experience is desirable
3+ years of Windows systems administration experience is desirable