Storage Systems Administration Analyst
NTT DATA
NTT DATA
Seeking a skilled Storage Systems Administration Analyst with 5-6 years of hands-on experience in enterprise storage management. This role involves configuring, monitoring, and maintaining a variety of leading storage technologies to ensure optimal system performance and data availability.
This position offers a great opportunity to leverage your expertise in troubleshooting and independent problem-solving within a dynamic IT environment. You will play a crucial role in maintaining the integrity and efficiency of our storage infrastructure.
Ideal candidates possess strong analytical skills, a customer-centric approach, and the ability to manage incidents and changes effectively. A good understanding of ITIL practices and experience with IT Asset Management tools is also highly valued.
Key duties include managing and maintaining enterprise storage systems such as NetApp, Isilon, HP Primera, Nimble, and Dell Unity. You will be responsible for performing storage provisioning, LUN creation, volume group management, and host mappings.
Responsibilities also encompass monitoring system performance and health using management consoles and CLI tools, configuring replication, snapshots, and data reduction technologies, and applying firmware updates and hardware expansions. You'll troubleshoot storage-related issues, provide SAN zoning and connectivity, and collaborate with cross-functional teams.
Furthermore, you will maintain accurate documentation, manage incident and change execution, and generate capacity and trending reports. Working with stakeholders to define and implement storage solutions will also be a core part of this role.
A minimum of 5 to 6 years of relevant experience in enterprise storage systems is required. Proficiency in configuring, monitoring, and maintaining NetApp, Isilon, HP Primera, Nimble, and Dell Unity storage technologies is essential.
Strong troubleshooting skills, the ability to perform storage provisioning, LUN creation, and manage host mappings are critical. You should have a good understanding of RTO/RPO, disaster recovery, data lifecycle management, and experience with SAN zoning, iSCSI/FC connectivity, and LUN masking for various host types.
Familiarity with ITIL practices, experience with ticketing tools like ServiceNow, excellent communication, and detail-oriented analytical thinking are also necessary qualifications for this position.
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