Storage Administrator

Overview

Requirements:

·       Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Information Systems, and 5+ years of related work experience.

·       Extensive experience in the following areas:

o   SAN – Hitachi, DellEMC, Nimble, Pure

o   NAS – Hitachi HNAS, DellEMC Isilon, Oracle ZFS, TrueNAS

o   Object storage – DellEMC ECS

o   Local and Remote Replication technologies such as: Brocade FCIP, EMC SRDF, HDS HUR, DellEMC RecoverPoint.

o   SAN Fabric administration and maintenance (Brocade, Cisco MDS)

o   Managing and monitoring a backup environment leveraging enterprise backup technologies including CommVault, Rubrik, and Veritas

o   Multipathing (MPIO) technologies on various platforms (Windows/Linux/Solaris).

o   Fibre Channel and iSCSI Block Storage Protocols, CIFS and NFS File Storage Protocols

·       Knowledge of database technologies, including MSSQL, Oracle RAC, ASM, RMAN, and experience supporting enterprise database applications including optimal storage configurations.

·       Deep understand of storage and server virtualization technologies as well as hyperconverged infrastructure

·       Strong communication, problem-solving, and presentation skills.

·       Dedication to work and willingness to work hard under pressure in a team environment.

Principal Responsibilities and Essential Duties:

 

·       Perform all aspects of SAN and NAS administration including planning, installation, upgrading, patching, tuning, support, and troubleshooting.

·       Assist in the architecture of storage arrays to provide a highly scalable, highly available Storage Infrastructure environment.

·       Participate in the creation of documentation, standards, best practices and new processes for operational integration of new technology solutions

·       Assist in the governance of the storage and backup environment to ensure compliance to defined standards, policies, and operational procedures

·       Work closely with application development teams and systems administration to test, troubleshoot, and optimize new and existing database-driven applications.

·       Monitor production, test, and development database environments and actively pursue any issues limiting the performance and scalability of these systems.

·       Mentoring and directing of non-senior peers

·       Help promote a consistent vision and strategy throughout the organization

·       Effectively and professionally interact with customers, clients and employees.

·       Must be willing to carry a cell phone, be on-call and occasionally work odd hours to help meet customer service level agreements.