Network Attached Storage (NAS) Senior Engineer/Manager

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Job Number: 4154

External Description: A career at Merck is an ongoing journey of discovery: our 52,000 people are shaping how the world lives, works and plays through next generation advancements in healthcare, life science and performance materials. For 350 years and across the world we have passionately pursued our curiosity to find novel and vibrant ways of enhancing the lives of others.

Job Title:Network Attached Storage (NAS)Senior Engineer/Manager

Location: Bangalore

Roles & Responsibilities:

  • Implementing, upgrading and maintaining NAS infrastructure acrossthe organization, including the delivery and documentation of the ITSM processes like Capacity and availability management, Performance management, life-cycle management, patch and vulnerability management, Backup & Disaster recovery management/capability, Security and hardening, Audit & Compliance, etc.
  • Accountable for ensuring that appropriate design, planning and operations implementation takes place for all new and existing services.
  • Provide technical leadership and hands-on support as designs are built.
  • Alongside standard backup engineer duties, this opportunity will see you recommend, innovative and where possible, automated approaches for infrastructure tasks.
  • Work with stakeholders and customers to understand backup utilization, lifecycle, protection requirements and develop these into effective and workable solutions and processes.
  • Lead the triage and resolution of escalated, complex incidents, problems or capacity concerns.
  • As the company operates a 24x7 service, this role will require support out of office hours for emergency support, routine maintenance, as well as customer services opening hours.
  • Travel may also be required within country and across the globe


Qualification, Skills & Experience:
  • Total years of experience ofclose to 15 years
  • 5+ Years prior experience in providing architect/subject matter expertise
  • 10+ Years prior experience in a 3rd Line support position
  • Comprehensive and expert knowledge of NAS architecture (on-prem, Cloud, Hybrid) and its hardware / software products, for file sharing and
  • Expert knowledge in NetApp and/or similar solutions, ideally also knowledge in Cloud/Hybrid storage solutions
  • Advanced technical knowledge in NAS storage administration, design, and implementation. Advanced working knowledge of NAS NFS, Users shares, iSCSI, Advanced knowledge of FC and TCP/IP networking,
  • Solid industry experience of software and hardware architecture, including, databases, clustering and load balancing, distributed file-systems, storage, virtualization, architecture and design patterns
  • Advanced technical knowledge in storage and backup methodologies, design, and implementation.
  • Thoroughly familiar with current Quality & GxP IT compliance requirements
  • Extensive project management and delivery
  • Solution design and presentation to stakeholders
  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
  • Project Management skill & certification, ITIL certification
  • Service Now
  • Experience at creating technical presentations/articles/papers
  • The ability to communicate and build relationships with technical team
  • ITIL expert
  • Willingness to work in shifts


Desiderable Skills:
  • Knowledge/practical application of agile methods.
  • NetApp or other similar storage training/certification a plus.
  • Experience with Hybrid Cloud NAS
  • Netapp storage monitoring and administration, including Snapshot, Snapvault and Snapmirror,
  • Linux / AIX extensive administration - ability to write scripts and automate tasks
  • ServiceNow


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Job Number: 177674

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