Job Profile/Job Description.
The Storage Administrator – Senior Associate is responsible for advanced support and continuous improvement of outsourced storage services across file, block, and object platforms.
This includes leading complex file share and quota/ACL designs, planning and executing data migrations and cutovers, designing and implementing SAN LUN/zoning/masking and replication configurations, and provisioning S3/object storage in accordance with best practices.
The role serves as a technical escalation point for storage incidents and changes, mentors junior team members, and partners with architects, vendors, and service owners to ensure stable, resilient, and cost-effective storage services.
Core Responsibilities
- Lead design and lifecycle management of enterprise file shares, quotas, and ACLs.
- Plan and execute storage migrations and cutovers across file, block, and object platforms.
- Design and implement SAN LUN layouts, zoning/masking, and replication configurations.
- Provision and manage S3/object storage, including lifecycle, security, and cost controls.
- Act as escalation point for major storage incidents and drive root cause analysis.
- Plan and coordinate storage upgrades and maintenance with minimal business impact.
- Identify automation opportunities and mentor junior team members on standards and runbooks.
Degree Preferred : Bachelor's or Masters in science, Computer Science, Engineering
Minimum Years of Experience : 4-7 year(s)
Required / Mandatory Knowledge/Skills :
- 4–7 years in enterprise storage administration or infrastructure operations.
- Strong expertise with file services, including complex share structures, ACLs, and quotas.




- Solid experience with SAN/block design, RAID, tiering, multipathing, zoning, and masking.
- Hands-on experience with storage migrations, replication, and DR for critical workloads.
- Proven ability to troubleshoot complex performance and stability issues across hosts, fabric, and arrays.
- Proficiency with scripting/automation (e.g., PowerShell, Python) for provisioning and reporting.
- Practical experience operating within ITIL-aligned incident, change, problem, and capacity processes.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, including vendor coordination.
Preferred Knowledge/Skills :
- Demonstrates advanced proficiency with at least one enterprise storage platform (NAS/SAN).
- Demonstrates experience designing storage solutions to meet performance and recovery objectives.
- Demonstrates ability to interpret detailed performance metrics and optimize workloads.
- Demonstrates leadership in high-severity incident response and post-incident reviews.
- Demonstrates understanding of integration with virtualization, databases, backup, and DR.
- Demonstrates success driving automation and improving storage runbooks and standards.
- Demonstrates effectiveness in coaching junior team members in an outsourced service model.
- Should possess knowledge on following tools - Dell Powerscale OneFS,.
Supearna Ransomeware, Cloudpools, Unity, Symantex, Treesize, Pure 1, Powershell scripting, VPLEX Management, Unispher, Recoverpoint, SRDF, Powermax Solutions enabler, Connectrix Manager,Brocade/Broadcom OS, Dell ECS Management & powerstore Console, Arxscan Capacity Reporter, Dell CloudIQ, Dell Live Optics, AWS Standard S3 Buckets, AWS S3IA,AWS Deep Archive

📌 Acceleration Center - Senior Associate Storage Administrator (Xico)
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