Associate Consultant - VxRail Job

YASH Technologies is a leading technology integrator specializing in helping clients reimagine operating models, enhance competitiveness, optimize costs, foster exceptional stakeholder experiences, and drive business transformation.

At YASH, we’re a cluster of the brightest stars working with cutting-edge technologies. Our purpose is anchored in a single truth – bringing real positive changes in an increasingly virtual world and it drives us beyond generational gaps and disruptions of the future.

We are looking forward to hire VxRail Professionals in the following areas :

Job description:

Experience required: 0-3 years

Job Summary

The Associate Infrastructure Engineer, Digital and Transformation, will participate in supporting, proof of concepts building, documenting, and enhancing operational efficiency. This role offers exposure to fundamental infrastructure/Network engineering principles and concepts, with additional focus on Management of Hyper-Converged Infrastructure, preferably VxRail, Backup & Restoration using Avamar and Data Domain systems, Alert Monitoring, Incident, and Change Management

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Conduct regular health checks and performance tuning on VxRail clusters to ensure optimal operation and availability.
• Execute emergency updates and patches to VxRail systems to address critical vulnerabilities or performance issues.
• Manage and maintain Hyper-Converged Infrastructure, preferably VxRail, ensuring peak performance and reliability, and proactively address any systems management tasks.
• Oversee backup and restoration tasks using Avamar and Data Domain systems, including configuring backup jobs, monitoring backup processes, ensuring data verification, troubleshooting backup errors, and managing storage allocation for backups.
• Diagnose and resolve high-severity incidents affecting VxRail infrastructure, coordinating swiftly with vendor support if necessary.
• Perform immediate recovery operations for critical systems using Avamar in the event of data loss or corruption.
• Monitor Avamar backup schedules and alerts in real-time for prompt action on any detected anomalies affecting data integrity.
• Respond rapidly to P1 alerts related to Data Domain disk failures or capacity issues, ensuring data restoration paths are secured.
• Investigate and remediate any high-priority storage bottlenecks in Data Domain systems that could jeopardize service levels.
• Manage urgent data replication tasks to ensure data availability and continuity in disaster scenarios.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems 

Work Experience

• Upto 3 years of relevant experience.
• Certification in VMware, Avamar, Data Domain is an added advantage

Preferred Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Possesses exposure to or education in the following:
• The ability to produce breach and other reports that are necessary for the correct operation of processes.
• Identify failures and shortcomings in the current processes and escalate with recommendations.
• Perform the necessary handover procedures in cases where shift work is required.
• Familiar with performing system upgrades including service packs, patches, hot fixes, and security configurations.
• Monitor performance and ensure system availability and reliability.
• Monitor System Resource utilization, trending, and capacity planning.
• Basic understanding on Routers Switches, firewall, MS Cluster, File Server, Print server.
• Good to have ITIL framework understanding

Physical and Travel Requirements

• Occasional On-Call work required. 
• Should support in US Business hours which are between 05:30 PM – 2:30AM India time.
• Willingness to work outside of these hours as needed. 
• Ability to work in a global and virtual environment and to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment.​

At YASH, you are empowered to create a career that will take you to where you want to go while working in an inclusive team environment. We leverage career-oriented skilling models and optimize our collective intelligence aided with technology for continuous learning, unlearning, and relearning at a rapid pace and scale.

Our Hyperlearning workplace is grounded upon four principles

• Flexible work arrangements, Free spirit, and emotional positivity
• Agile self-determination, trust, transparency, and open collaboration
• All Support needed for the realization of business goals,
• Stable employment with a great atmosphere and ethical corporate culture