Senior Storage Administrator
My client operates in a highly competitive and complex marketplace, offering a wide range of IT solutions and services in four primary domains:
Maintenance: hardware, operating system and software application maintenance
Operation: Operation services, User support, System Availability, Implementation services
Design: Design of Information Technology solutions and software systems integration
Consultancy: Consulting services, Infrastructure Solutions, Software development and implementation
Responsibilities:
- Proactive monitoring of managed service components
- Maintenance and administration of the Solaris and Linux environments
- Maintenance and administration of NetBackup environment
- SAN Storage management and allocation
- Resolving issues with vendors including Oracle, EMC and Symantec
- Day to day administration of the Solaris and Linux environments.
- Manage faults reactively, diagnosing and resolving faults when they arise
- Manage fault calls assigned to the role
- Draft and implement agreed Change Requests
- Maintain software and hardware to supported levels, patching/upgrading as required.
- Installation, integration and maintenance and administration of central services.
- Handling complex escalated technical customer or partner issues.
- On site debugging of complex hardware and/or software issues
- Support, analysis and proactive monitoring of Network and servers with appropriate software tools and method.
- Update and upgrade complex IT products and systems
- Handling and resolving routine tasks and problems
- Ownership of assigned tasks and resolution of customer problems within SLA
Knowledge/Skills/ Experience:
- 3+ years proven experience actively working with Solaris in a production operational environment
- Fully familiar with standard operational activity including, scheduling, batch run, backup and recovery, Unix Scripting, User Management and Monitoring.
- Knowledge of the Veritas tool set including Foundation Suite, Clustering and NetBackup.
- Familiarity with the concepts of Unix storage and ideally have worked with SUN/Oracle, EMC or disk storage solutions.
- A self-starter and should be able to operate in customer facing environment with minimal supervision.
- Well-developed excellent communication skills both written and verbal, proven experience of technical documentation production, can demonstrate technical leadership
- Flexibility on travel within Ireland for short term assignment
- Experience providing consultancy to customers, recommendations and operational improvements etc.
- Experienced in a wide range of technology areas.
- Experienced in most areas of the solution lifecycle.
- IT Certifications, good technical training background
For more information on this or other roles feel free to contact Alison on 01 6455250 or alison.byrne @ experis.ie
