• The Expert Labs consultant assume overall technical responsibility for the success of solution construction, implementation and system integration in a technology, industry or business specialty
• You deliver new and complex high-quality solutions to clients in response to varying business requirements
• You have deep skill and strong hands-on skills in ONE or MORE of the following subject matter areas: Enterprise Storage, IBM DS8000, IBM Flash System Products, SAN Networking and Tape products, Spectrum Protect, Spectrum Scale
• Exposure to Containers and Kubernetes technology
• Should be ready to travel (once or twice a month)
Your Role and Responsibilities- Has deep technical skills and experience in solutions that support the key focus areas for the team.
- Provide technical expertise for the Client engagements and responsible for designing and deploying the solution.
- Collaborate with the technical consultants across other geos to create new assets
- Conduct technology Sessions / workshops on Focus Areas
- Work on PoCs for clients and other IBM Teams
Required Technical and Professional Expertise
- Minimum of 7+ years of functional experience in the Storage and Backup Domain
- Extensive understanding of Storage concepts including Storage Architecture, Fiber Channel
- Hands-On experience in managing multi-vendor Enterprise Class Storage Systems (Block, NAS, SAN Switches) such as IBM DS8000 Series / EMC VMAX / HDS VSP / IBM SAN Volume Controller / IBM A9000 / Spectrum Scale
- Experience with Hybrid Storage Solutions
- Must have experience in Storage Automation and understanding of scripting day to day tasks
- Experience in Disaster Recovery Planning and Deployment including Storage Replication, Point in time Copy
- Good Communication Skills both written and Verbal
- Experience in Storage Performance Troubleshooting
- Must be an innovative thinker who can take any business problem and quickly come up with a way to sketch out architecture block diagrams using IBM and open source technologies
Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
- Proven soft skills, analytical skills, team player, excel skills and end user support
- Ambitious individual who can work under their own direction towards agreed targets/goals and with creative approach to work
- Intuitive individual with an ability to manage change and proven time management
- Experience on Backup Solutions
- Well versed with IBM or other vendors SRM Solutions
- Certified on Brocade/Cisco SAN
- Certified on IBM / Other Vendor Storage Systems
- Industry experience in Banking /Telecom/ Manufacturing