Storage Admin

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.

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