Sydata
Storage Admin
Salary
Job description
Role: Storage Admin
Location: Houston, TX 77073
Duration: 24 months
Must Have Skills
- 8-10 Yrs of experience as Storage Administrator
- Certifications or specialized skills/training in one of the storage technology (Dell/EMC, NetApp).
- Excellent interpersonal skills to effectively communicate with cross-functional teams, including staff at all levels of the organization including both technical and non-technical personnel.
- Experience in troubleshooting complex computing platforms, storage systems including SAN and NAS arrays, and/or innovative technologies involving virtualization, and high availability.
- Strong commitment to customer service
- Help desk ticketing system experience.
- Strong expertise in NAS and SAN based storage systems.
- Strong experience with Cisco, Brocade SAN multilayer director class switches.
- Experience with installation, problem detection, resolution and maintenance on the following hardware: Dell Servers, Cisco UCS Servers
o Hands-on experience with Cisco's Unified Computing Systems, B/C Series
o UCS Central
o Fabric Interconnects
o UCS Operational Validation & Troubleshooting
o Capacity management and system tuning
Detailed Job Description
- Responsible for daily administration & troubleshooting of heterogeneous SAN/NAS environment Dell/EMC, NetApp Storage Arrays including VNX, Isilon, and NetApp FAS (Cluster/7Mode), which hosts storage for Hypervisors, Linux and Windows, based hosts.
- Ability to create SMB shares and NFS Exports on EMC Isilon & NetApp filer. In addition, troubleshoot Filer Performance Issues.
- Provision storage/aggregate, Volume/LUN as provided in the service request.
- Configure & troubleshoot the SAN-bootable LUN corresponding to VMware ESXi & Hyper-V hosts.
- Troubleshooting and debugging of the storage environment with respect to DC IT infrastructure and compute platform
- Provide health and performance report and take appropriate actions based on trends in data.
- Responsible for storage zoning, configuration and management of Brocade & Cisco SAN switches.
- Perform storage capacity analysis and planning
- Identify, monitor, build and utilization report on the storage infrastructure using Storage Management Tools.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
