System Administrator II - Storage - Military Veterans

The Storage Administrator II is responsible for all aspects of storage operations, including systems analysis and maintenance, security, support, capacity planning, and systems configuration.  The Storage Administrator II is expected to execute tasks based on guidance that adheres to established Standard Operating Procedures.

Responsibilities:

• Maintain Enterprise Storage Services

• Manage multiple storage Block, File and Object Storage Services infrastructure elements

• Manage multiple storage Data Protection Services infrastructure elements

• Manage multiple storage Connectivity Services infrastructure elements

• Maintain allocation and capacity reporting information

• Create trouble tickets, change management and work packages using Remedy, ServiceNow and JIRA

• Conduct large scale data migrations / platform migrations

• Perform code upgrades, patches and fixes as required

• Utilize and react to alerts and issues as identified by the Storage Systems monitoring infrastructure

• Will be required to work normal daytime working hours as well as periodic after-hours work and on-call duties

• Maintain production storage and data protection environments to ensure integrity, performance, accessibility, and recoverability of data

• Troubleshoot and tune for system and performance problems; identify and resolve information flow, content issues, and assist with transformation of business requirements into technical requirements

• Work independently with minimal supervision.  Candidate should also be able to work well with others in a team environment

• Have excellent written and verbal skills and the ability to communicate with users of other Enterprise Storage Services (ESS) team members, customers and management

• Support enterprise data protection and disaster recovery testing and procedures

• Perform problem determination (root cause analysis), and document the source of problems and their resolution

• Assist staff members in trouble resolution pertinent to the storage infrastructure

Requirements

Minimum

• Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline and 2 years’ experience in IT Hands-On Enterprise Storage. The right candidate could also have a different combination, such as a master’s degree and up to 2 years’ experience; or 6 years’ experience in a related field

• Experience with Dell Storage and Data Protection

• Experience with Pure Storage

• Experience with Cisco MDS

Preferred

• Experience working in a large 24/7 storage environment preferred

• Experience with and good understanding of the following protocols: NFS, CIFS, Fiber Channel, iSCSI

• Automation/scripting experience (i.e. Ansible, Python, Bash)

• Windows, Linux and Unix system administration experience preferred

• Experience supporting large enterprise media and/or telecommunications environments preferred