Storage Administrator

A. Qualifications, Skill Set & Experience required:

1. B.E./B. Tech. in Computer/IT/Electronics/ M Sc. (IT) or M.C.A or higher from a recognized university.

2. Minimum 3year experience in Storage Arrays implementation & administration, SAN implementation & administration in large

setup.

3. Should be OEM certified for Storage products.

4. Should possess in-depth knowledge of Storage Arrays like EMC, HP, Hitachi, Netapp etc.

5. Should have worked on MDS switches and should have sound knowledge of FC networking.

6. Should have knowledge of remote replication technologies

7. Should have basic knowledge of popular Operating Systems like, Windows , Red Hat Linux etc.

8. Knowledge of clustering technology (Linux & Windows) and basic knowledge of virtualization technologies

9. Knowledge of Databases i.e. MS-SQL, MY-SQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, DB-2 etc.

10. Knowledge of Networking protocols and Local Area Networks

11. Knowledge of Fiber Channel protocols like SCSI, iSCSI ,FCoE, FCIP etc.

B: Scope of Work:

The Storage Administrator shall undertake the following activities:

a. Management of the storage solution including, but not limited to, storage management policy, configuration and management of

disk array, SAN fabric / switches etc. Activities performed by the agency will be under the supervision of NIC.

b. Responsible for storage management, including but not limited to management of space, Block/File/Object volumes, RAID

configuration, LUN, zone, security, business continuity volumes, performance etc.

c. The storage administrator will be required to create/delete, enable/disable zones.

d. The storage administrator will be required to create/delete/modify storage volumes on Disk Arrays.

e. The storage administrator will be required to create/delete, enable/disable connectivity and access rights to storage volumes.

f. To facilitate scalability, availability and performance of solution wherever required.

g. FC switch Configuration, firmware up-gradation, zoning, monitoring, reporting and analyzing performance and corrective action as

and when required.

h. Installation and update the HBA drivers on servers.

i. Must have hands on in latest technologies in storage solution like storage virtualization, cloud computing, application and provision

of object based storage and NAS. He must have understanding of heterogeneous environment in storage solution.

j. Must have the clear understanding of managing, provisioning and performance analysis of the storage solution in virtualization and

cluster environment.
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