We are seeking a Sr. Storage Administrator, to join our growing IT Department at our Corporate Office in Calabasas, CA

The Senior Storage Administrator acts as a member of the Instrastructure team and is responsible for the management, maintenance, and support of a complex, multi-terabyte scale, heterogeneous storage environment including storage area networks (SAN), network attached storage (NAS) and associated management software that underlies mission-critical product suites.

As an Information Technology professional you may be required to perform duties that include elevated privileges. As a trusted custodian to the Company’s sensitive information and/or systems you will be expected to maintain professional conduct and protect the confidentiality of any information to which you may have access.  You will be expected to commit yourself to the highest standards of moral and business ethics.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Utilizes technical knowledge, demonstrated experience, and exercises judgment in completing assigned tasks in an efficient and timely manner
• Works with other senior technical staff and management teams in architecting technical solutions as needed, and both participates on and leads project teams
• Develops new procedures based on technical solutions
• Recommends and leads projects requiring complex technical decision making and provides input to delivery schedules
• Normally receives general instructions on new assignments
• Has work reviewed by the Infrastructure Management team for the soundness of technical judgment and overall accuracy
• Follows schedules provided by supervisor and managers
• Responsible for own schedules and work assignments
• Records and reports project status and metrics
• Consistently maintains overall department objectives and project goals.
• Establishes procedures for user requests for storage according to business needs and in alignment with project schedules
• Supervises and assists incident response on storage hardware
• Creates and implements storage systems configuration designs of high complexity
• Establishes procedures for and performs storage systems maintenance; accepts input from management and customers in design
• Performs complex technical work requiring demonstrated experience in the application of advanced techniques and in carrying out tasks; utilizes extensive experience and knowledge to improve the existing processes and company operating procedures; accomplishes tasks and projects within defined time lines and in a professional manner
• Develops capacity planning models to be used as input to strategic decision making
• Provides primary storage administrator functions for storage environment; duties encompass a full range of disk space and infrastructure optimization (I/O) management architecture, support, and troubleshooting areas
• Creates complex target storage layout with an emphasis on reliability, scalability and serviceability
• Designs and implements client host configuration and maintains best practices
• Develops policy and process for scheduled backup and recovery strategy; restores and recovers data where necessary
• Provides training and training materials for storage-recovery related products and policies
• Participates in Operations on-call responses; carries a pager and is available during specified hours of coverage, and is also available as an integral member of a system support team during normal and crisis situations
• Performs support of production and development SAN and NAS systems, including diagnosis and response to capacity, availability and performance related issues
• Provides clear, concise and complete operational change communication and appropriate problem notification/escalation communication according to established procedures
• Provides root cause problem analysis, along with recommendations and implementations of preventive techniques
• Provides problem resolution by making full and appropriate use of internal and external resources, including vendors
• Creates design documents, RAID group assignments, LUN assignments, host configurations and performs switch zoning
• Selects, implements, schedules and supports backup systems
• Creates and implements data replication and disaster recovery plans, methods, and techniques and testing
• Evaluates and creates processes around storage management related software installation and configurations
• Maintains appropriate records of licensing and capacity of all equipment
• Develops and implements monitoring solutions to assist in the availability of storage services
• Proactively monitors and manages SAN, NAS and server disk space and I/O utilization
• Supports and/or performs the installation, extension and configuration of Storage infrastructure, including switches, fiber, disks, shelves, enclosures, controllers and data replication hardware
• Schedules and selects firmware and security-related upgrades to SAN switches, hbas, controllers, disks, etc. during maintenance windows
• Continually researches, learns and acquires new knowledge to improve operational services; communicates this knowledge to enhance our overall knowledge and competency level
• Takes the lead in communications and vendor management 
• Defines and maintains policies and configurations around capacity management, performance management and availability management
• Maintains policy and procedural changes to improve operational integrity and service delivery
• Analyzes storage, recovery, and monitoring technologies in order to provide input for strategic direction setting
• Identifies storage assets, discusses projected growth rates with management, and reviews and enhances current storage change control procedures
• Analyses storage consumption and I/O performance on an application, host, LUN, volume or group level and provides accurate trend analysis
• Keeps abreast of technical trends; develops and incorporates them within assignments as appropriate; drives technical improvements and procedural changes within the Operations Group
• Communicates technical issues within scope of assignments to management and peers
• Assists in training more junior members of team; typically takes the lead role in more complex initiatives or projects
• Participates in peer reviews; assists more junior members of team
• Additional duties as assigned by manager
  
  

Education and/or Experience:

• 6+ years of equivalent previous storage administration experience; 6+ years of directly related work experience is required for individuals holding a Bachelor’s degree
• Senior Level Storage Engineer with 6+ years of direct experience in designing, implementing,

managing, and supporting mid to large Enterprise Storage environments

• Demonstrate strong experience with the design, engineering, and implementation of complex storage environments
• Demonstrate strong experience with performance monitoring, analysis, and tuning of large Enterprise Storage environments
• Demonstrate strong understanding of the Fiber Channel Protocols
• Demonstrate the ability to autonomously manage complex Storage Environment related projects
• Have excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Master’s degree or equivalent in computer science or related field is preferred 
• Ability to work under pressure, to solve technical problems quickly (minutes or hours), to automate processes and solutions using available tools, and to develop in house tools where necessary
• Strong interpersonal and communications skills; capable of writing proposals or papers, acting as a vendor liaison, making presentations to audiences of professional peers, and working closely and openly with management; proven ability to develop and document solutions and configurations is required
• Experience working in large, business critical production support environments required; hands-on experience in technical infrastructure operations required
• Demonstrated commitment to customer service and customer satisfaction required

Demonstrate strong installation, configuration, and operational skills with Brocade Fiber Channel SAN switches and directors

·         Brocade Silkworm 4xxx and 5xxx

·         Brocade DCX

·         Brocade DCFM Software

Have solid hands-on experience with RedHat Linux RHEL 5.x and 6.x Operating Systems:

• Configuration of SAN devices
• Configuration of Multipathing software
• Manipulation of the Linux device tree
• iSCSI configurations
• Troubleshooting skills

Physical Requirements:
General office environment, ability to sit for long periods of time. Ability to move about an office.

Safety:
The incumbent must be able to perform this job safely in accordance with standard operating procedures and good manufacturing practices, without endangering the health or safety of self or others.

Supervisory Responsibility:
None

Benefits Include:

• 401k
• Full Medical Package including, health and dental
• Paid Time Off
• Competitive Salary
• Casual Work Environment