Senior Storage Administrator
Garmin
- Olathe, KS
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Designs and develops basic integrated solutions to meet business requirements or enhance performance of Garmin’s Storage Area Network and Network Attached Storage environments
- Performs and evaluates cost analyses and vendor comparisons form small through large scale projects to ensure cost-effective and efficient operations
- Measures feasibility of various approaches and makes recommendations
- Provides 24x7 on-call support.
- Continuously develops technical subject matter expertise on established and emerging storage technologies as it relates to Block Storage, CIFS, NFS, S3, Storage Snapshots, Data Replication and Mirroring.
- Communicates effectively regarding system operations and environment changes
- Adheres to SOX, PCI, and other regulatory requirements as dictated
- Demonstrates an understanding of Garmin’s Change Control process and upholds the importance of compliance
- Understands and avoids capacity, redundancy, and health constraints of server, storage, load balancer, and other open-source systems
- Ensures that all security requirements are met or exceeded
- Provides technical input to solution development plans and concept documents
- Demonstrates understanding of business impacts of issues and how they relate to IT owned solutions
- Communicates effectively in written and verbal form in a cross-functional setting with business partners
- Performs and plans major version upgrades
- Designs and implements effective monitoring of enterprise systems
- Tunes systems using experience and deep knowledge of area
- Foresees risks and communicates and mitigates those before problems arise
- Documents technical designs and procedures for team library
- Plans and manages technical projects involving other teams
- Communicates technology effectively to non-technical associates and management
- Recognizes and understands technology’s impacts within the business
- Consistently looks at the opportunity in all change
- Gives and receives feedback in a constructive manner
- Resolves conflicts with little assistance
- Contributes to technical research on new technologies processes or procedures
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, Business or technology related field AND a minimum of 2 years relevant experience OR an equivalent combination of education and experience
- Experience with a number of the following:NetApp Cluster Mode, Dell EMC ECS, Dell EMC VMAX/PowerMax, Dell EMC Isilon/PowerScale, Brocade Fibre Channel/SAN, and Pure Flash Array is desired.
- Experience with emerging storage technologies as it relates to Block Storage, CIFS, NFS, S3, Storage Snapshots, Data Replication and Mirroring.
- Ability to author and implement basic scripting and coding to automate technical needs such as to move files, backup, create configuration, or other tasks
- Demonstrated ability to solve moderately complex technical problems independently with a focus on quality and effectiveness in work documentation and organization
- Demonstrated experience in successful implementation of technology solutions
- Demonstrated strong and effective verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
- Consistently demonstrates qualitly and effectiveness in work documentation and organization.
- Open to oncall rotation.