Backup&Storage Administrator

Location of the position

Reguły (near Warsaw)

This person will be responsible for defining, implementing and maintaining storage management policies. Storage Administration describes the process of maintaining storage subsystems. This will include tasks such as Storage provisioning, Storage decommissioning, Performance management, Capacity management, SAN management, Backup management and other tasks related to the timely provision of storage resources. Storage administrators also need to be adept at managing a wide variety of storage environments comprised of heterogeneous platforms.

Key responsibilities

• Receiving user requests for storage and evaluating requests. Confering with requester to understand data usage demands, frequency and business use of information
• Working with linked departments, such as software, database administration, network and others, to ensure all necessary components are installed for storage
• Installation and configuration of storage management hardware and software infrastructure
• Recognizing troubleshoot issues and providing resolution for storage hardware and software
• Performance tuning and capacity monitoring of the storage devices
• Performing storage replication techniques
• Maintaining all storage infrastructure documentation, standards, procedures and configurations
• Performing routine audits of storage infrastructure
• Maintaining production change control schedule and participating in change control‘review process
• Monitoring the alert system and taking required corrective action
• Checking the storage arrays for any hardware alert/failure in disk drive and escalating the issues to the vendor for the problem rectification

Requirements

• Completion of master studies
• Minimum 3 - 5 years of professional experience
• Practical knowledge about tools related with storage administration and Backup
• Knowledge of SAN infrastructure
• Knowledge of Symantec Backup Excec/Simpana Commvault
• Knowledge of virtualization technologies VMware ESXi administration
• Knowledge of Zerto technologies, Netapp Snapmirror
• Good knowledge of Windows 2008R2/2012
• Basic knowledge of Linux Ubuntu/RHEL
• Storage management, monitoring and proven ability in problem solving techniques such as Nagios, Solarwinds
• Script language PowerShell
• Inspirational, effective communicator with leadership skills and being a team player
• Ability of coaching and developing co-workers
• Having international experiences would be an add-on
• Very good communication in English is a “must have”