Storage Administrator

As a Storage Administrator at Apex Informatics, you will be responsible for managing and maintaining the company's storage infrastructure, ensuring optimal performance, availability, and data integrity.

You will work closely with cross-functional teams to design, implement, and troubleshoot storage systems and storage area networks (SAN). You will also monitor storage performance, perform capacity planning, and implement data backup and recovery strategies.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, deploy, and configure storage systems and storage area networks (SAN).

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define storage requirements and develop storage solutions.

• Monitor and optimize storage performance and ensure high availability of storage systems.

• Perform hardware and software installations, upgrades, and maintenance for storage systems.

• Implement and manage data backup and recovery strategies.

• Conduct regular capacity planning and recommend storage allocation and optimization.

• Troubleshoot and resolve storage-related issues and implement necessary fixes and enhancements.

• Stay up to date with industry trends and advancements in storage technologies.

Requirements

Requirements:

Minimum of 8 years of experience in a Site Reliability Engineering, Storage Software Development, or Infrastructure Software Development role.
Experience in building, operating, and scaling distributed storage systems in a private, public, or hybrid cloud environment.
Good understanding of block, object, and file storage solutions in the industry (such as XFS, ext4, S3, EBS, Ceph, Gluster, NFS).
Understanding of Linux internals, standard networking protocols, and distributed systems.
Experience with provisioning, data migration, backup & recovery, at-scale testing, disaster recovery, and capacity planning.
Acute drive to automate manual operations and to improve them with well defined and tested APIs
Awareness of best practices for deployment of storage systems - implication of physical and virtual deployment models to change management, failure domains, hardware lifecycle management, etc.
Experience with deploying, supporting and monitoring new and existing services, platforms, and application stacks.
Experienced in SRE principles, such as monitoring, alerting, error budgets, fault analysis, and other common concepts in reliability engineering. Skilled at identifying opportunities to reduce manual work through improvements in code and processes
Familiarity with relational & non-relational databases (such as Cassandra, Postgres, & RocksDB)

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, or a related field.

• Proven experience as a Storage Administrator or similar role.

• In-depth knowledge of storage systems, storage area networks (SAN), and related technologies.

• Strong understanding of storage protocols such as Fibre Channel (FC), iSCSI, and NFS.

• Experience with storage management software and tools.

• Familiarity with data backup and recovery strategies and disaster recovery planning.

• Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.

• Good communication and collaboration skills.

• Ability to work well independently and in a team environment.

• Detail-oriented with strong organizational skills.

• Certification in relevant storage technologies (e.g., EMC, NetApp) is a plus.