Senior Storage Administrator

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary point of contact for all storage-related issues.
• Install, configure, and maintain SGI IRIX based Operating Systems and SGI systems with direct attached and FC SAN attached storage.
• Manage Network Appliance clustered servers with direct attached and FC SAN storage.
• Support and maintain SGI IRIX and Network Appliance supported applications.
• Implement and manage multivendor clustered filesystems such as GPFS, Lustre.
• Configure and manage Brocade FC switch networks.
• Manage enterprise class arrays and Solid State Disk (SSD).
• Configure and manage NFS/CIFS based server/storage appliances.
• Manage HPSE, Data Domain, and similar deduplication products.
• Develop and implement enterprise backup/recovery strategies.
• Manage server configuration and consolidation.
• Verify the health and status of the entire IT infrastructure.
• Provide support for enterprise services such as DNS, NFS, email services, security protection mechanisms, and the interoperability of UNIX and NT based systems.
• Develop and implement enterprise backup/recovery strategies.
• Manage cloud based storage solutions such as HADOOP and IBM BigInsights.
• Manage trouble ticketing using Remedy.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• At least ten years of demonstrable experience in system administration and support of a large client-server based IT enterprise.
• Experience installing, configuring, and networking UNIX and/or NT based platforms.
• Experience creating, modifying, and deleting user accounts, performing system back-ups, and maintaining system configuration files.
• Fundamental understanding of operating systems and familiarity with either UNIX or NT commands or utilities at the user level.
• Experience with the installation and configuration of hardware, operating systems, and commercial software packages.
• Experience developing and implementing enterprise backup/recovery strategies, server configuration and consolidation, and verifying the health and status of the entire IT infrastructure.
• Experience providing support for enterprise services such as DNS, NFS, email services, security protection mechanisms, and the interoperability of UNIX and NT based systems.
• IAT Level II Certification.

Pay

$150,000.00 - $191,000.00 per year