Storage Specialist

**Agile Lab** is a company founded in 2014 with the mission to create value for its customers in data-intensive environments through customisable solutions that establish performance-driven processes, sustainable architectures and automated platforms based on data governance best practices.

Having delivered over 100 successful Elite Data Engineering initiatives, we have used this experience to create Witboost: a modular, technology-agnostic platform that enables modern organisations to discover, value and produce their data in both traditional environments and fully compliant Data Mesh architectures.

With a highly skilled team of over 160 data engineers based in Europe, Agile Lab helps organisations with their data-driven transformation.

Take a look at our **handbook** to discover our core values and processes.

**The opportunity**:
**We are looking for a Storage Specialist III to join our team.** You will manage the enterprise storage infrastructure: create and assign volumes, monitor performance and capacity, handle replication/backup, and respond to incidents and operational requests. The role includes shift work and on-call duty.

**Schedule & shifts**:
Coverage: Monday-Friday 07:30-20:00, Saturday 07:30-14:00.

Standard hours**:40 hours per week, 8 hours per day**, on rotating shifts within the coverage window.

**On-call**: scheduled rotations; overtime is recognized if work is performed during on-call.

**RAL**:
**€47.5K-€60.5K**:
**Responsibilities**:

- **Manage enterprise storage** on **Hitachi VSP Gx00 and 5x00**, covering **LUN** and volume provisioning, troubleshooting, and replication with **GAD, UR, and SI**.
- Storage **NetApp AFF and FAS**, deliver **SAN and NAS**services, oversee provisioning and health, resolve issues, and configure **SnapMirror** replication.
- Handle **Purestorage X90** for day to day management, provisioning, and incident resolution.
- Operate **Brocade GEN5** and later switches and directors, performing zoning, pathing, and diagnostics.
- Use **Hitachi OPS Center** to monitor Hitachi arrays and analyze performance, NetApp Active IQ Unified Manager to track NetApp health and capacity, and Brocade BNA to administer Brocade fabrics and report on events and performance.

**️ Requirements**:

- **Previous experience as a Storage Specialist (+6 years).**
- **Hitachi VSP Gx00/5x00** (GAD, UR, SI) with **Hitachi OPS Center.**
- **NetApp AFF/FAS** (SAN/NAS) with **SnapMirror** and **Active IQ Unified Manager.**
- **Pure Storage X90**Brocade (Gen5+)**: switches/directors, **BNA** for management and analytics.
- **Dell Storage** (VMAX, VNX, VPLEX, RecoverPoint - SRDF): management, provisioning, troubleshooting, replication.
- **IBM DS8000**: management, provisioning, troubleshooting, replication.
- **Cisco Nexus**: management and troubleshooting.
- **ServiceNow** ticket management.
- Excellent communication skills, proactivity, team player.

**Nice to Have**

- **Stor2RRD, Xormon** for centralized performance and capacity management.
- Fundamentals of **Active Directory.**
- Fundamentals of **Networking.**

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**We offer**:

- Full Remote or hybrid working in our offices: Milan, Turin, Padua, Bologna, Catania and Rende;
- Real work life balance;
- Training monthly budget (time and money);
- A structured career path with clear expectations and salary for each level;
- Support of a buddy in the first week of work;
- A coach as a guide in choosing the most suitable experiences for your ambitions;
- Benefits and corporate welfare programs: company prizes and welcome pack with all the equipment you need to work;
- _Agile Nomads Experience_: opportunity to work for 2 weeks abroad;
- Referral bonus, if you bring people as talented as you;
- The opportunity to attend one conference per year;
- A company rated 4.8 out of 5 for employee satisfaction on _Glassdoor_ and certified as a _Great Place to Work_

- Inclusive environment where you can be who you really are;
- Stimulating environment oriented to growth, both professional and personal.

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**How we work**:

- We don't like hierarchies: we work as a team;
- We don't like bureaucracies, we prefer sense of responsibility;
- We like data, certainly, so anything that is measurable;
- We want to make a positive change in our industry;
- Empathy, humility, collaboration, and willingness to challenge ourselves are the basis of our work.