The NAS Systems Administrator will need to have proven experience in administering NetApp appliance technology delivering solutions to a variety of technology and business clients. Expertise in managing storage for file services and effectively managing storage capacity is a must. The individual will need to be able to seamlessly blend technical knowledge, business knowledge, project management and effective communication skills for this role

Principal Responsibilities

Interaction with Storage Engineering and Business Applications Infrastructure to provide daily support and technology solutions

Delivery of high quality storage provisioning services to the Business Application teams

Administer and maintain day-to-day operational support, implementations and periodic hardware and software maintenance. Tasks also include:

Capacity management

Performance analysis, tuning and management

Data migrations

Inventory Maintenance

Storage provisioning and configurations

Reporting on utilization, chargeback and growth trends providing recommendations

Troubleshooting

Testing and validating new technologies/enhancements with Engineering

Participate in assessing current environment and making recommendations for improvement with an eye to automation, where applicable

Share information and promote effective communication among peers and clients.

Write comprehensive documentation and maintain operational runbooks

Consistently meet the SLA's set with the client for the services provided.

Experience/Skills

Minimum 3 years of experience supporting NetApp implementations and configurations

Solid understanding of hardware platforms such as FAS9XXX, 3XXX series, FC loops, MK4-DS14, ESH modules, raiddp with familiarity around hardware troubleshooting.

Knowledge of protocols such as NFS(a must) and CIFS (a must), FC and iSCSI.

Well versed in disaster recovery technology - snapmirror, snapshots, backups

Knowledge of tools - DFM, VFM, StorageProfiler, Rainfinity a plus

Must be proficient in scripting languages such as Perl and VBScript

Experience with performance tuning analysis a must.

Active Directory, NIS Authentication, Networking and SAN knowledge a plus

Knowledge of SQL and familiarity with databases is a plus.

Three to five years of experience supporting Microsoft or UNIX platform

Strong analytical and problem solving skills

Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal

Self starter with minimum supervision

Principal Responsibilities

Interaction with Storage Engineering and Business Applications Infrastructure to provide daily support and technology solutions

Delivery of high quality storage provisioning services to the Business Application teams

Administer and maintain day-to-day operational support, implementations and periodic hardware and software maintenance. Tasks also include:

Capacity management

Performance analysis, tuning and management

Data migrations

Inventory Maintenance

Storage provisioning and configurations

Reporting on utilization, chargeback and growth trends providing recommendations

Troubleshooting

Testing and validating new technologies/enhancements with Engineering

Participate in assessing current environment and making recommendations for improvement with an eye to automation, where applicable

Share information and promote effective communication among peers and clients.

Write comprehensive documentation and maintain operational runbooks

Consistently meet the SLA's set with the client for the services provided.

Experience/Skills

Minimum 3 years of experience supporting NetApp implementations and configurations

Solid understanding of hardware platforms such as FAS9XXX, 3XXX series, FC loops, MK4-DS14, ESH modules, raiddp with familiarity around hardware troubleshooting.

Knowledge of protocols such as NFS(a must) and CIFS (a must), FC and iSCSI.

Well versed in disaster recovery technology - snapmirror, snapshots, backups

Knowledge of tools - DFM, VFM, StorageProfiler, Rainfinity a plus

Must be proficient in scripting languages such as Perl and VBScript

Experience with performance tuning analysis a must.

Active Directory, NIS Authentication, Networking and SAN knowledge a plus

Knowledge of SQL and familiarity with databases is a plus.

Three to five years of experience supporting Microsoft or UNIX platform

Strong analytical and problem solving skills

Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal

Self starter with minimum supervision