Block Migration Advanced Storage Administrator
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Location: Ottawa, ON K1A 0A5
Description:
Block Migration Advanced Storage Administrator
- Responsible for managing the day-to-day administration for SAN and storage environments, including:
- Collaborate with Customer's storage support teams
- Participate in problem solving and troubleshooting for the assigned task(s), functional area(s) or project(s)
- Support the design, operation, workflow and issue resolution for the storage infrastructure
- Help maintain systems level maintenance for storage infrastructure
- Responsible for tracking existing storage usage trending and capacity planning for future growth
- Maintain storage documentation, procedures and reporting
- Provide Storage Area Network Configuration and Administration
- Storage Allocations to server infrastructure
- Manage infrastructure events
- Capacity Management
- Monitor storage subsystem and SAN switch capacity
- Perform capacity analysis; analyze performance data and trends
- Responsible for tracking existing storage usage trending and capacity planning for future growth
- Problem resolution
- Problem diagnosis, resolution, and documentation
- Perform Incident resolution
- Investigate and diagnose raised problem(s) or problem records for root cause analysis
- Perform necessary storage infrastructure maintenance in accordance with best practices and Company change management policies
- Perform host-level tasks as requested to access new storage
- Interface with assigned Hitachi Data Systems storage engineers to manage the implementation of all additional storage infrastructure and storage services
- Mentor and train junior admins
- Oversee the design, installation, configuration and de-provision of storage solutions
- Performance Management for SAN and storage
- Perform capacity tuning; provide remediation recommendation
- IT Service continuity management, including monitoring of:
- Responsible for providing Disaster Recovery solutions as it relates to SAN and NAS storage by developing and maintaining a library of procedures for disaster recovery documentation
- Data movement and replication
- Business Resumption Testing (DR) including data integrity tests
- Execution of HTsM based migrations
- Includes deployment and utilization of iSEC/SE Console/RIAT
- Coordinating remediation activities with customer
- Executing migrations via HCS utilizing HTsM
- Working knowledge of operating systems like Windows, Linux and Unix (AIX, Solaris and HP/UX) and common multipath platforms
- Strong knowledge of HDP/HDT from design/implementation standpoint
- Planning and design for HTsM, TrueCopy, and/or HUR based migrations
- Includes deployment and utilization of iSEC/SE Console/RIAT
- Coordinating remediation activities with customer
- Executing migrations via HCS or scripted methodologies
- Workload analysis using TMEA concerning array performance during/after migrations