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.

Additional Information

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