Storage Admin
Reston, VA, United States
Job Tittle: Storage Admin
Location: Reston - VA (Remote)
Duration: Contract
Job Description/ Responsibilities:
SAN administrator with a minimum of 8 years' experience managing Brocade, Cisco, Dell EMC, and Netapp solutions.
-Deep knowledge of Dell EMC Vmax suite
-Create zones and provision storage to hosts
-Create replication pairs (SRDF)
-Create snapshots
-Deep knowledge of Brocade fabric and troubleshooting
-Deep knowledge of NetApp product suite
-Configure replication
-Configure encryption
-Understanding of SAN provisioning to a VMWare.
Job Description/ Responsibilities
• Interface, partner, and influence stakeholders to promote simplification, standardization and innovation and to ensure risk are understood and minimized
• Establish policies and standard operating procedures to enable consistent and repeatable execution
• Propose appropriate changes to standards, policies, and procedure based on emerging business/technology trends and operational challenges with the existing guidelines utilizing performance metric and operational SLA
• Plan for adequate capability on systems based on utilization metrics and planned projects to establish supply and demand forecasts
• Design and verify the technology solution meets business and technical requirements and is in compliance with enterprise architecture guidelines, technology standards and methodology, and compliance and security standards
• Maintain and operate the application design. It includes but not limited to monitoring, performance and capacity metrics , SLAs, resiliency and disaster recovery plans - Define success criteria for validation of technology solution and application designs
• Develop and document an integrated test plan for certification of technology solutions and application design in compliance with existing best practices - Provide work guidance or technical assistance to less senior engineers
• Work with customers (application developers, production support analysts) to gather storage requirements
• Plan work to provision storage to new servers or add additional capacity
• Work with Systems and Database administrators to ensure storage is integrated properly into the systems.
• Respond to incidents including storage performance issues
• Failures the storage infrastructure.
• Participate in project work streams to design and build new IT solutions
• Minimum of 5 years System Administration experience encompassing Windows, Solaris, AIX, or Linux.
• Knowledge of the Microsoft, Solaris, AIX, and Linux platforms as it relates to mounting and managing LUN's and HBA configuration.
• Familiarity with multi-pathing and volume management
• Familiarity with Cisco UCS storage provisioning
Diverse Lynx LLC is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive due consideration for employment without any discrimination. All applicants will be evaluated solely on the basis of their ability, competence and their proven capability to perform the functions outlined in the corresponding role. We promote and support a diverse workforce across all levels in the company.