Job Summary: The Storage Administrator is responsible for the operation, maintenance, and performance of enterprise storage systems across a diverse, multi-vendor environment. This role ensures data availability, integrity, and optimal performance for mission-critical applications. Job Duties:
- Manage and maintain enterprise storage systems including SAN, NAS, and object storage platforms.
- Monitor storage performance, capacity utilization, and health across all storage arrays.
- Provision storage volumes, LUNs, shares, and exports for servers and applications.
- Perform storage zoning, masking, and host mapping tasks.
- Troubleshoot storage performance issues, connectivity failures, and hardware errors.
- Perform firmware upgrades, patching, and lifecycle maintenance on storage hardware.
- Coordinate with VMware, Compute, and Database teams for storage-related support activities.
- Conduct regular backups verification, snapshot management, and replication checks.
- Support disaster recovery processes including failover, validation, and recovery testing.
- Maintain storage documentation including diagrams, runbooks, SOPs, and configuration records.
- Respond to incidents and requests through the ITSM system with accurate documentation.
- Analyze trends in storage usage and provide forecasts for capacity planning.
- Ensure compliance with security, audit, and change management policies.
- Collaborate with vendors for hardware support, replacement, and troubleshooting.
- Participate in on-call rotations and provide after-hours support as needed.
- Provide mentoring and knowledge transfer to junior network staff.
Key Responsibilities: - Storage Provisioning - Allocate and manage storage volumes, LUNs, shares, and quotas across SAN/NAS platforms.
- Multi-Vendor Storage Support - Administer EMC, NetApp, HPE, IBM, Pure, Hitachi, or similar storage arrays.
- SAN Fabric Management - Configure zoning, masking, and connectivity across Brocade/Cisco fabrics.
- NAS Administration - Manage CIFS/NFS shares, permissions, snapshots, and replication.
- Performance Monitoring - Analyze latency, throughput, IOPS, and capacity trends to optimize performance.
- Backup & Recovery - Support backup platforms (NetBackup, Commvault, Veeam) and ensure successful restore operations.
- Data Protection - Implement snapshots, replication, and DR strategies across storage systems.
- Incident & Problem Resolution - Diagnose storage failures, connectivity issues, and performance bottlenecks.
- Automation & Scripting - Use PowerShell, Bash, or Python to automate provisioning and reporting.
- Documentation - Maintain architecture diagrams, SOPs, and configuration records.
- Cross-Team Collaboration - Work with server, virtualization, cloud, and network teams to support business workloads.
Required Qualifications: - 3-8 years of experience in enterprise storage administration.
- Hands-on experience with at least two major storage vendors.
- Experience supporting storage in virtualized and cloud-integrated environments.
- SAN/NAS Expertise - Strong understanding of Fibre Channel, iSCSI, NFS, CIFS/SMB.
- Experience with multi-vendor storage arrays (EMC, NetApp, HPE, IBM, Pure, Hitachi).
- Knowledge of storage replication, snapshots, deduplication, and tiering.
- Familiarity with Brocade/Cisco SAN switches.
- Understanding of VMware storage concepts (datastores, vSAN, multipathing).
- Experience with backup technologies (NetBackup, Commvault, Veeam).
- Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills.
- Ability to manage large-scale enterprise storage environments.
Preferred Qualifications & Skills: - EMC Proven Professional
- NetApp NCDA/NCIE
- HPE ASE
- Brocade or Cisco SAN certifications
- ITIL Foundation
Compensation: We provide a competitive pay and benefits package. This position is offering a salary range of $95,000-$105,000 Belcan considers several factors when extending an offer, including but not limited to education, experience, geographic location, and discipline. Benefits offered may include health care, dental, vision, life insurance; 401(k); education assistance; paid time off including PTO, holidays, and any other paid leave required by law.
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