Description
Storage Administrator
Pittsburgh, PA
1 year+ contract
This position is for a Storage administrator. Advanced knowledge of enterprise storage systems and concepts is required. The appropriate candidate will become part of an experienced team dedicated to the support of storage systems in our environment. Off hours and weekend support are required along with less than 10% travel. Participation in a rotating 24 hour/7 day on-call rotation is required.
Responsibilities:
- Provides routine technical support with full responsibility and accountability.
- Operates autonomously detecting and anticipating problems.
- Must work closely with vendor resources on remote/local projects as required.
- Designs, deploys, configures, and maintains storage solutions in an NetApp/EMC/Hitachi/SVC SAN storage environment. Focus is on Hitachi storage solutions.
- Research and make recommendations on storage products, services, and standards in support of procurement and development efforts.
- Ability to work in large global IT support organization
- Must have excellent written, verbal, presentation and project management skills
- Must have experience working in accordance with a tightly controlled change management environment.
Technical Skills:
- 3 - 5 years of experience working on NetApp, EMC, Hitachi, IBM SVC, Cisco
- EMC: Clariion CX-4, Centera, DMX4, VMAX, Solutions Enabler, SYMCLI, PowerPath, SRDF, SMC
- NetApp: FAS3000, FAS6000, OnCommand System Mgr, Ops Mgr, Snapmirror, Multistore, OnTap upgrades
- Hitachi: VSP, Command Suite, TrueCopy, Tuning Manager
- IBM SVC: Mgmt software, MetroMirror, Flashcopy
- Cisco: 9506, 9509, 9513, zoning, VSAN management
- Unix administrator level skills for AIX, HPUX, Red Hat Linux
- Ad-hoc Scripting skills for storage administration ( Korn, Bash, or Perl )
- Hands-on SAN/NAS/DAS troubleshooting experience.
- Data Migration Methodologies
- NetApp, EMC, Hitachi or Cisco certifications preferred
Education:
- Bachelors Degree in field and 5+ years of experience or industry equivalence gained via prior work assignments.