BluDive Technologies Limited (BluDive) is an ICT solutions company that offers strategic outsourcing, IT infrastructure management services and technical support services that enable corporations efficiently optimize their operational capabilities as well as increase system uptime and minimize revenue loss. BluDive was founded in December 2014 with a commitment to provide custom IT services that are responsive to client needs and provide exceptional customer service support. Our business model is built on the values of diligence, excellent service delivery and customer satisfaction.
As Storage Administrator, you are given tasks within implementing, monitoring, and maintaining our 2 storage solutions, providing backup services for all company's applications. Storage systems used are Dell and HP.
Typical Duties and Responsibilities
- Oversee storage infrastructure, including servers, storage devices, and network-attached storage (NAS) or storage area network (SAN) systems.
- Optimize storage capacity and performance by monitoring usage and planning for future storage needs.
- Implement data deduplication and compression techniques to maximize storage efficiency.
- Configure and manage systems, including filers, arrays, and clusters.
- Ensure data stored is accessible, protected, and efficiently organized.
- Configure and manage Pure Storage arrays and systems, ensuring high-performance, all-flash storage for critical workloads.
- Hands on experience in managing and configuring Brocade switches.
- Zoning and configuration of an HBA port and an iSCSI initiator is a required skillset.
- Ensure the security of stored data through encryption, access controls, and user authentication.
- Develop and maintain disaster recovery plans to minimize data loss and downtime in the event of a catastrophe.
- Conduct regular tests and drills to validate the effectiveness of disaster recovery processes.
- Leverage Cohesity's features for data mobility and disaster recovery, ensuring the organization's ability to recover from data loss or system failures.
- Continuously monitor the storage and backup systems' performance and health.
- Implement performance optimization strategies to ensure data availability and access speed.
- Configure and manage storage systems, including filers, arrays, and clusters.
- Ensure data stored on systems is accessible, protected, and efficiently organized.
- Maintain documentation related to backup and storage processes, configurations, and procedures.
- Generate reports to track backup success rates, storage usage, and other relevant metrics.
- Fine-tune storage performance by optimizing caching, tiering, and data placement.
- Troubleshoot issues related to storage, resolve technical problems, and provide support to end-users as needed.
Minimal work experience:
- Minimum 5 years’ experience providing system engineering & systems architecture support for enterprise storage systems
- Solid understanding of Data Center & Cloud platform design, implementation, and support
- In-depth Knowledge of technologies from EMC, HP and Hitachi storage systems
- Storage array, SAN network and data-center systems trouble shooting experience
- Excellent analytical ability and communications skills with the ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously.
- Experience with Cisco UCS and brocade SAN.
- Knowledge of storage disaster recovery and replication methodologies.
- Demonstrated planning, deploying competencies with data center and SAN networking elements such as Cisco MDS, at both an IP and Fibre-Channel level.
- Demonstrated planning, deploying competencies with Dell EMC Unity, VMAX3, and VNXe hybrid storage arrays, PowerStore 8000T, HP 3PAR and Hitachi VSP storage systems
- Strong verbal and written communication skills to convey technical information to non-technical stakeholders, facilitate discussions, and present ideas clearly and concisely.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: ?300,000.00 - ?700,000.00 per month
Experience:
- Cisco UCS and brocade SAN: 5 years (Required)
Ability to Relocate:
- Lagos: Relocate before starting work (Required)
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