Storage Administrator

Job Description

Leading Global Solutions Provider has a long-term contract opportunity for a strong Storage Administrator based in Dublin City Centre. You will be the first point of contact for identifying, prioritising and resolving Storage incidents in relation to Backups, restores, archiving and SAN and Storage arrays, both production and non-production environments. You will be providing administration and technical support of an Enterprise Backup and Archiving solution based on Veritas’s suite of products i.e. Netbackup, Enterprise Vault, InfoMap, eDiscovery. You will be responsible for supporting and maintaining Storage environments, to ensure 24x7 availability, including installing and configuring Backup H/W and S/W, SAN and Array H/W and S/W and patching, upgrading and performance tuning the environments.

• First point of contact for identifying, prioritising and resolving Storage incidents in relation to Backups, restores, archiving and SAN and Storage arrays…..both production and non-production environments.
• Administration and technical support of an Enterprise Backup and Archiving solution based on Veritas’s suite of products i.e Netbackup, Enterprise Vault, InfoMap, eDiscovery
• Deploying, supporting and troubleshooting issues with backups on premise and in Microsoft Azure
• Administration and technical support of a Brocade SAN with underlying storage arrays based on IBM Enterprise Storage Technologies, in particular IBM 9100 Flash Storage arrays and HP 3Par arrays
• Supporting and maintaining Storage environments, to ensure 24x7 availability, including ….installing and configuring Backup H/W and S/W, SAN and Array H/W and S/W and patching, upgrading and performance tuning the environments.
• Maintaining a good understanding of the VMware (ESXi 6.5) platform to troubleshoot storage issues effectively.
• Software implementation, trouble-shooting and application management, for Storage
• Manage small/medium projects/work activities or sections of larger projects and interact with stakeholders to ensure business requirements are met
• Automating and administering Storage Admin tasks using PowerShell and VB scripting
• Creation and maintenance of documentation, as required
• Provide guidance to other members of the team as required
• On-Call / Standby would be required
• NOTE : Level 3 would be expected to give guidance on technologies to other members of the team as required