Strategic Business Systems is seeking a Storage Administrator to join our team of qualified diverse individuals. This is part of a team that ensures the customers ability to provide missioncritical intelligence and successful use of its information technology (IT) networks worldwide.
This role is onsite at John C. Stennis Space Center Mississippi
Required Security Clearance:Current and active DoD Secret or above
Required Certifications: Must meet DoD 8570 IAT Level II certification requirements (Security AND one of the below NetApp Certifications:
NetApp Certified Technology Solutions Professional
NetApp Certified Data Administrator (NCDA)
NetApp Certified Storage Installation Engineer
Top 3 skills in order of importance:
AFF
StorageGrid
Object Storage
Job Summary As a Professional Services Consultant you will be directly engaged with and supporting multiple NetApp customers by deploying implementing and integrating various technical architectures that deliver the highest value of our NetApp solutions within the customers operational environment. In this role you will be expected to position deliver and implement various NetApp solutions and other advanced consulting services within diverse customer environments. You will work closely with the sales team to present solutions to the customers unique requirements in addition to working with other services personnel in deploying solutions within operational production customer environments. This position requires a dynamic hardworking and ambitious individual with good verbal and written communication skills. Consulting experience with strong customer interaction skills is a must.
Job Requirements Experienced technology consultant with significant level of handson field experience. Deploy postsales hardware and software solutions with medium level complexity. Coordinate with senior customer representatives and Sales teams in the performance of daily tasks. Solid foundation with NetApp IT infrastructure applications and Cloud services providing the ability to quickly become a Subject Matter Expert in these areas:
Implementation of backup and restore disaster recovery storage consolidation data protection storage performance etc.
Optimization including upgrades performance monitoring and system audit tasks.
Follow appropriate escalation guidelines as required during customer engagements.
Exposure to and understanding of a variety of integrated technologies/concepts in a distributed environment.
Comply with all customer security and operational requirements in the performance of tasks.
Excellent verbal and written communications skills are essential to interface with midtosenior level management and technical teams architects systems administrators and senior operations managers.
Ability to work collaboratively with other engineers consultants and Project Managers in a team environment to meet aggressive goals achieve high quality standards and share best practices.
Ability to take lead as technical expert when working with customers senior technical representatives to design architect and implement the best solution to meet and exceed customers requirements and expectations.
Ability to understand the customers business requirements and relate their requirements to technical solutions.
Perform system health checks monitor alerts and take appropriate and timely actions as required.
May require limited off hours work (nights and weekends).
The qualified candidate has experience with many of the following hardware platforms OS protocols technologies and solutions:
NetApp FAS AFF ESeries and FlexPod Converged Infrastructure solutions
Core experience with ONTAP 9.x SANtricity and StorageGRID
Data Protection: Snapshots SnapMirror SnapVault Fabric Pool
System Manager OnCommand Unified Manager Active IQ Unified Manager
Storage Provisioning of Aggrs Vols LUNs RAID knowledge and configuration
Data Migrations: VMs CIFS vol moves etc.
NFS Export Policies
VMware (thorough knowledge of hypervisor and features)
Core networking and switch knowledge ensuring proper configurations with NetApp FAS AFF & FlexPod solutions
Cisco UCS configuration and operations
Troubleshooting storage access issues (i.e. CIFS access lost datastore access etc.
Education and Certifications:
A Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science or other Information Technology related field and a minimum of 3 5 years of relevant experience; OR equivalent combination of education/certifications/training and relevant years of professional work experience required.
EEO Disclaimer SBS is an equal opportunity employer; all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age gender gender identification sex sexual orientation color race creed national origin religion marital status parental status citizenship status ancestry physical or mental disability genetic information veteran status military status or any other classification protected by federal state or local laws.
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