OverviewResponsible for the administration, configuration, monitoring, and maintenance of enterprise storage infrastructure, including SAN, NAS, and storage virtualization technologies. Duties include managing storage capacity, provisioning and allocating storage to VMware and physical server environments, configuring and maintaining storage volumes, LUNs, datastores, and RAID configurations, and monitoring storage performance and availability. The role requires experience with storage replication, snapshots, backup integration, data protection, and disaster recovery strategies. The individual will troubleshoot storage connectivity and performance issues, manage storage expansions and migrations, plan for future capacity requirements, and ensure storage systems meet organizational requirements for performance, availability, redundancy, and data integrity.
Qualifications
EDUCATION
Bachelor's degree preferred in computer science or related field. Extensive experience may be considered in lieu of degree and/or certifications
MCSE, VCA/VCP, or VCAP preferred
ADDITIONAL SKILLS/ABILITIES
- 5 to 8 years’ experience in a Microsoft, Linux multi-server networking environment
- 5 to 8 years’ experience installing and supporting VMware
- Experience working with multiple domains with mission critical systems
- Experience working in a large multi-facility team environment
- Extensive in the documentation of network topology and diagramming, installation guidelines and troubleshooting documentation
- Experience in the set up and configuration of file servers, clustering devices, operating systems and applications.
- Significant experience in installation, maintenance and support of high availability systems
- Experience working in and a thorough understanding of SAN environments
- Extensive experiencing working with and maintaining enterprise backup solutions
- Experience in the design and workings of disaster recovery-business continuity strategieSignificant experiencing using and creating automations scripts for any number of system related activities, upgrades, or changes to individual or enterprise wide systems and computers
- Extensive knowledge and experience as a System Administrator, Server administrator or similar role
- Experience with databases, networks (LAN, WAN) and patch management
- Excellent communication skills
- Knowledge and experience in advanced network system design and access technologies.
- Ability to analyze, coordinate, and manage multiple technologies and concepts effectively
- Outstanding organizational, technical and managerial skills to creatively formulate, interpret, and integrate a large number of complex issues and problems
- Experienced in project management and establishing protocols for system development
