SAN Storage Administrator
Greenwood Village, CO

Job Description

Job Description:

Day to day responsibilities include troubleshooting various production issues of host not seeing storage, single path failures and performance based issues.

* Engage with System's Admin, DBA and Application teams for validating source and target RDF devices and to approve SRDF split/establish requests.
* Investigate the host path failure issues to identify the cause and resolving the issues with HBA, cable and SFPs if any.
* Implementing, planning and testing Disaster Recovery solution using SRDF/Asynchronous. Split the SRDF pairing for the devices during activity and guide SA, DBA to mount the target devices and bring up the DB/application on the remote side for testing.
* Work with vendors like EMC, HP, Brocade and Cisco - in case of any Physical or hardware failures to replace the failed components. Provide logs when required to diagnose the issue.
* Extensively work on SAN related host connectivity for various operating systems including SUN Solaris, AIX, Linux, and Windows.
* Configuration and allocation of storage for production and corporate VMware hosts from Vmax and VNX including configuration of specific port settings for FA ports.
* Expertise in analyzing the performance metrics of Storage frame components (FA/Device/Cache/Disk Adapters/Switches) to investigate issues related to latency and providing best solutions to improve the host IO performance.
* Configure VMAX using tools such as Solution Enabler/SMC/Unisphere, create and manage Virtual pools for VMAX, deploy and monitor FAST VP, Also perform VLUN migration when required.
* Identify and troubleshoot issues with switch hardware which caused significant credit loss events to multiple hosts causing host aborts, work effectively with vendor to take action and resolve the issue.
* Monitor the SAN & Storage alerts regularly across the heterogeneous environment for warnings/critical alarms and proactively took steps to prevent potential issues from occurring.
* Extensive experience in performing SRDF operations split/swap/failover/failback/restore as per the requirement from customer and also successfully performed DR testing of multiple applications using SRDF/S & SRDF/A.
* Configure zones on Cisco switches using CLI and Fabric Manager for creating zones, updating zones to the zonesets and activating zonesets.
* Troubleshoot day to day performance issues and resolve them using Performance Manager. Comparing the port utilization, IOs and read/writes to the disks using performance manager and analyzing the data for trouble shooting performance issues.
* Extensive knowledge on Thin provisioning, good understanding of benefits, risks, and how to effectively design and manage a thin provisioned storage environment.

REQUIRED:

* SAN and Storage operations in a storage environment of 80 PB consisting of VMAX 20K, VMAX 3, VNX Frames, HP 3 PAR, CiscoMDS and Brocade enterprise directors.
* Senior Level Storage Engineer with 5+ years of direct experience in designing, implementing, managing, and supporting large Enterprise Storage environments
* Demonstrate strong understanding of the Fiber Channel Protocols, SAN Fabric and SAN Storage technologies
* Have excellent communication and interpersonal skills
* Demonstrates commitment to customer service and customer satisfaction required
* Must be able to work rotating daily shifts - 7 AM to 4 PM and 10 AM to 7 PM

DESIRED:

* Demonstrate strong installation, configuration, and operational skills with Cisco MDS, Brocade, EMC VMAX & VNX storage hardware:
* Fabric Manager Server (FMS)
* Device Manager
* Knowledge of Cisco and Brocade CLI commands
* Strong Microsoft Excel experience
* Solutions Enabler
* Performance Manger
* Unisphere
* SRDF/Timefinder/FCIP
* ZSR

Posting Date: 05/14/2019

Location: Greenwood Village, CO, Denver Tech Center, 5117 S Yosemite St, Richardson, TX, BUILDING C, 2380 PERFORMANCE DR, - United States

Travel: No

Full / Part-time: Full time

Hours Per Week: 40

Shift: 1st shift