Introduction
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Your Role and Responsibilities
Additionally, SREs resolve customer issues and problems detected through monitoring. They participate in datacenter build and configuration activities, performing tests, and deploy new features and capacity.
**Responsibilities**:
As a PowerVS Storage Operations Site Reliability Engineer, you perform the following tasks:
- Develop scripting and automation to enable faster and more accurate performance of all system administration tasks.
- Develop proactive, automated solutions to issues to prevent/avoid customer impacting events.
- Perform firmware/software upgrades for:
- Brocade SAN Switches.
- IBM FlashSystem Storage Controllers.
- Develop and/or runbooks and processes for all daily activities.
- Configure newly deployed switches and storage controllers during datacenter builds and expansions.
- Work collaboratively with other teams on complex issues involving multiple components.
- Diagnose and resolve infrastructure (SAN, Storage controller) problems reported by:
- Monitoring alerts.
- Customer support cases.
- Utilize diagnostic tools including IBM Storage Insights to diagnose storage problems (performance, IOPs, etc).
Required Technical and Professional Expertise
- Scripting and Automation including: Python, Perl, shell scripting (bash, etc), Go, Ansible, etc.
- Strong experience in AIX, Linux (RedHat)
- Understanding of Code Management and Updates (GitHub, Jira, etc).
- Advanced understanding of IBM FlashSystem storage: configuration, encryption, performance analysis, tuning, thin-provisioning.
- Familiarity with GDPR, HIPAA, FSCloud, and other regulations.
- Advanced customer support experience, supporting complex multi-vendor storage environments (Hardware failures, advanced debugging, client-reported issues, configuration, etc)
- Familiarity with IBM Storage Insights or related storage monitoring solutions (Spectrum Control, etc).
- Advanced understanding of Storage Area Networks configuration understand zoning, config in a core edge design.
Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
Experience with configuration and tuning in PowerVC.
- IBM Cloud experience.
- Azure experience.
- Storage & Power RTS, MVS Network for Cisco, Juniper; general support skills.
- Familiarity working under strict change control.
- Familiarity with IBM Power hardware, Cisco enterprise networking, Juniper firewalls.
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