Network Engineer L2

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Job Summary:

Datacenter Infrastructure Engineer

Key Responsibilities:

1. Datacenter Infrastructure Management

• Manage and maintain physical infrastructure, including servers, storage, network devices, and cooling systems.
  
• Perform hardware installation, configuration, maintenance, and troubleshooting.
  
• Maintain complete documentation of environment details and infrastructure inventory.
  
• Coordinate and provide necessary support for new hardware provisioning within the Data Center.
  
• Create and execute maintenance plans for updates, performance stats, and defragmentation.
  
• Schedule maintenance jobs and ensure minimal downtime.
  

2. Server Management

• Provision, monitor, and maintain servers (physical and virtual) within the data center.
  
• Handle server deployment, including setup of new virtual environments.
  
• Perform patch management, performance monitoring, and capacity planning.
  
• Ensure high availability and reliability of servers (excluding migration activities).
  
• Monitor CPU, memory, network, and disk utilization; identify performance bottlenecks.
  
• Generate and analyze server performance statistics.
  
• Identify harmful growth rates and fragmentation issues and perform performance tuning.
  

3. Storage Management

• Manage storage provisioning, data backup, recovery, and archiving.
  
• Conduct storage capacity planning and ensure data integrity and security.
  
• Manage SAN availability and monitor storage event logs.
  
• Process alerts generated by monitoring tools and identify resource bottlenecks.
  
• Troubleshoot system alerts and perform root cause analysis using knowledge bases.
  
• Oversee network reachability and file system backup/restoration operations.
  
• Configure and manage replication in storage systems.
  
• Define and update policies in the VMware Horizon environment.
  
• Coordinate with OEMs for patching and vulnerability closure.
  
• Handle SAN switch zoning and ensure smooth integration of new hosts (in coordination with the Hitachi team).
  

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• Hands-on experience in

  Datacenter Operations, Server & Storage Management

  .
• Strong knowledge of

  VMware

  ,

  SAN/NAS

  , and

  Windows/Linux server environments

  .
• Experience in

  capacity planning

  ,

  backup & recovery

  , and

  performance optimization

  .
• Familiarity with

  SAN zoning

  ,

  replication management

  , and

  VMware Horizon

  .
• Good understanding of

  network reachability

  ,

  hardware provisioning

  , and

  system monitoring tools

  .
• Excellent troubleshooting and analytical skills.
  
• Ability to coordinate with cross-functional and vendor teams (e.g., Hitachi, OEMs).
  

Preferred Certifications (Optional):

• VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
  
• Microsoft Certified: Windows Server / Azure Administrator
  
• Hitachi Storage Certification (if applicable)
  
• ITIL Foundation Certification

Regards,

HR Team

Hitachi Systems India Pvt Ltd