Storage Administrator

Job description

Job Description

Storage Administrator

Position Description
The Storage Administrator position supports a multi-vendor SAN infrastructure (HDS, EMC, IBM) with Brocade and CISCO MDS fabric switches. Our team supports provisioning, project work (design), solutioning and performance/capacity management.

Your future duties and responsibilities
• Working knowledge of SAN fabrics, HDS and EMC enterprise arrays
• Working knowledge of CISCO MDS fabric switches.
• Working knowledge of Actifio and CommVault backup products
• Must be able to work closely with other towers to ensure effective delivery of our Storage solutions
• Perform Fiber channel zoning and array work providing LUNS, adding NFS and CIFS shares, etc.
• Understanding of network routing and firewall requirements
• Develop and implement automated solutions to support operational and SLA objectives.
• Respond quickly and effectively to storage issues and outages
• Strong documentation skills along with the ability to train junior level personnel on day to day data storage tasks
• Provide recommendations to improve design and reduce cost
• Creation of reports for both clients and management
• Participate in 24x7 on-call rotations for storage support
• Provide technical leadership to more junior team members
• Has experience working in a large storage environment with formal change management practices

Required qualifications to be successful in this role
Skill Set Years of Experience Proficiency Level
Brocade / Cisco fiber channel Switches 3 Years Mid Level
EMC storage arrays 3 Years Mid Level

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS/NON-ESSENTIAL SKILLS REQUIRED
• Ability to learn quickly and work independently
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Professional and ethical at all times
• Energy, initiative, and a positive attitude
• Must be willing to successfully complete any and all CGI/client specific background & security checks.
• Working knowledge of MS Office products (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Visio, SharePoint)
• Strong documentation skills along with the ability to train junior level personnel
• Desire to expand responsibilities beyond initially defined job responsibilities to support emerging needs within the organization
• Ability to effectively aggregate, organize, and present information
• Pragmatic ability to balance process compliance, quality, innovation, and expedience
• Exceptional collaboration, negotiation, and interpersonal skills
• Ability to lead through influence
• Ability to be effective in a fast-paced, quickly changing environment
• Works well under pressure
• Agile & DevOps Concepts
• Experience with ITIL v3 preferred

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Skills

·  Cisco
·  Storage & Back-up

Reference

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