Lead Storage Administrator

Description:

Supporting the Operations Organization by employing systematic efforts that translate operational storage needs into configuration specifications that provide a robust, stable, and maintainable Production Storage Processing environment, meeting or exceeding all Business Requirements.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Participate in strategic projects
• Provide oversight of the global storage footprint
• Provide storage forecasts based on usage and trending
• Keep up to date with storage manufacturers' product offerings
• Provide Level3 expertise for break\fix issues
• Ensure accurate and non-impactful changes are implemented in the production environment by working with technical services storage resources
• 24x7 on-call support on a rotating basis

What it Takes:

• B.S. in computer science/information systems or equivalent combination of education and

5-8 years progressively responsible experience in experience.

• Primarily NetApp and EMC storage technologies, some familiarity with HP 3Par Storage Array installation, configuration, and administration would be considered an asset
• Storage allocation, upgrades, and optimization standards
• Storage Performance Tuning
• Proactive monitoring and tools implementation
• Cisco MDS and Brocade SAN switch installation, configuration, and administration
• SRDF/DR , Storage management tools (ECC, SE, ESRS, SCG, SMC/SPA)
• Experience with EMC’s PMAX, VMAX, VNX, Symmetrix, and Celera platforms, 3PAR storage, NetApp, and Cisco SAN Switches.
• Familiarity with VMWare is an asset
• A basic understanding of system administration, troubleshooting, and performance tuning of RedHat Enterprise Linux, HP-UX, Solaris & Windows Servers