Storage Administrator

PruittHealth•Norcross, GA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Storage Administrator’s role is to operate and performance tune storage platforms across the organization to ensure high levels of data quality, availability, and security. This includes managing modern storage technologies such as all-flash arrays, hybrid storage systems, and cloud-integrated storage solutions. The individual must have hands-on experience with Rubrik for data protection and backup, and Pure Storage solutions for high-performance storage. This individual also participates in the planning and implementation of policies and procedures to ensure storage provisioning, efficiency, and maintenance that is consistent with company goals, industry best practices, and regulatory requirements.

Requirements

Good understanding of storage architecture design techniques, theories, principles and practices.
Hands-on Fibre Channel, iSCSI, SAN, NAS, and DAS troubleshooting experience.
Solid skills in Microsoft operating systems.
Proven experience with modern storage technologies including all-flash and hybrid storage systems.
Hands-on experience with Rubrik for backup and disaster recovery.
Expertise in Pure Storage solutions for enterprise-grade storage performance.
Strong understanding of storage networking protocols such as iSCSI, Fibre Channel, and NFS.
Ability to monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize storage systems for performance and reliability.
Familiarity with cloud storage integration and data migration strategies.
Experience with VMware Virtual Infrastructure solutions.

Responsibilities

Participate in and support capacity planning and development of long-term strategic goals for enterprise storage in conjunction with data owners and department managers.
Work with systems and database administrators to implement storage architectures that utilize industry best practices including Information Lifecycle Management and Hierarchical Storage Management.
Install and configure storage devices and corresponding software.
Establish appropriate end-user access control levels for stored data.
Perform tasks necessary to fulfill service level agreements with end-users regarding storage allocations, limitations, security, and availability.
Perform and test backups and restores to ensure that enterprise data is effectively protected.
Communicate and enforce, through system procedures, data storage retention policies.
Follow change control, incident response, and testing processes for modifications to storage appliances and software.
Anticipate, mitigate, identify, respond to, and resolve issues with storage devices, storage access, and data retrieval.
Research and make recommendations on storage products, services, and standards in support of procurement and development efforts.
Monitor, analyze, and predict trends for storage equipment performance, space allocation, and data growth to recommend enhancements to the Infrastructure Team.
Develop, document, and maintain operational processes and tasks.
Establish strategies for storage consolidation, centralization, and optimization to reduce downtime and costs while improving security and storage performance.
Perform tasks necessary to provide new virtual server implementations and support of existing virtual server environments.
Work closely with operations, project management, application development and infrastructure teams to develop data disaster recovery plans, performance analysis and backup/restore processes.