Sr Storage Administrator - Isilon at Opt IT Technologies · Remote, Bengaluru (Bangalore), Hyderabad · 7 - 15 years · ₹20L - ₹36L / yr · Profitable · Remote friendly · Posted 10 Jan 2024

Job Title - Sr. Administrator, IT Infrastructure Storage
Job Duties -
- Administer IT storage recovery and backup systems. Perform complex provisioning, advanced maintenance, data replication, disaster recovery, data migration, and documentation.
- Participate in ongoing maintenance, utilization, availability, and security of storage infrastructure.
- Perform IT implementations, performance analysis and optimization, monitoring, problem resolution, upgrade planning and execution, and process creation and documentation.
- Analyze and work to improve the quality of services offered by IT. Participate in ongoing technology evaluations to keep up with technology trends and industry standards.
- Be able to script in Perl or Python and perform capacity planning and growth projections.
- Resolve complex IT issues as pertain to the environment and keep abreast on storage & backup technology.
- Experience working with ISILON Storage is a must-have skill.
- Good to have experience in ransomware, anomaly detection, airgap and vaulting technologies.
Education and Experience Requirements -
The position requires a Bachelor’s degree in
Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field plus 5 years of post-
baccalaureate progressive experience in IT storage environments.
Skills Requirements- Experience must include:
- Expertise in Linux and Windows – Good to have Cloud knowledge
- Utilizing OS-enabled tools for data copy like rsync, robocopy and other tools
- Setting up NFS, SMB, snapshots, replication, SnapMirror, and SyncIQ
- Experience in NAS storage technologies like Netapp, Power scale, Isilon, Qumulo and Weka
- Dell EMC Insight IQ, DataIQ and ESRS, Netapp tools (OCUM/AIUM)
- Rubrik, Cohesity, Veeam and other comparable backup technologies
- Good to have Monitoring and Alerting like Prometheus, SolarWinds, telegraph and Grafana

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