Storage Administrator

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Oversee, sustain, and enhance the enterprise storage infrastructure that supports a federal healthcare modernization initiative.

• Set up, configure, manage, and optimize SAN infrastructure, which includes Brocade Fibre Channel switches, HPE storage arrays, NetApp AFF clusters, and Pure Storage systems.

• Provide support for approximately nine petabytes of storage within VA healthcare environments.

• Track storage capacity, utilization, performance, and availability using enterprise monitoring and management tools.

• Generate capacity forecasts, performance metrics, and weekly status updates.

• Manage backup, recovery, and data protection operations utilizing Commvault, snapshots, snapclones, SQL Server backup tools, tape libraries, and Azure archival storage.

• Assist with storage integration, technical refresh projects, and large-scale data migrations across EHRM, BISL, and Azure environments.

• Provision new storage devices, migrate workloads, and ensure secure, reliable connectivity.

• Diagnose storage connectivity, hardware, firmware, and performance problems across SAN fabrics, storage arrays, and cloud environments.

• Collaborate with vendor support teams for root cause analysis and corrective measures.

• Maintain comprehensive storage documentation, including topology diagrams, build and configuration guides, capacity planning reports, and ATO documentation.

• Assess approved AI-assisted tools for storage automation, predictive analytics, troubleshooting, and reporting.

• Work in partnership with storage administrators, systems engineers, database specialists, cloud engineers, vendors, and federal stakeholders.

• Execute additional tasks as necessary to support team objectives and project success.

⛳️ Requirements

• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electronics Engineering, or another engineering or technical field, or eight (8) years of additional relevant experience in lieu of a degree.

• At least five (5) years of pertinent professional experience.

• Extensive hands-on experience in administering enterprise SAN and storage infrastructure.

• Familiarity with NetApp ONTAP, HPE Primera, HPE 3PAR 20850, HP Lefthand Centralized Management Console, HP Storage Essentials, and HP SN8700 Fibre Channel director switches.

• Experience in configuring, monitoring, and troubleshooting Fibre Channel SAN environments, enterprise storage arrays, and issues related to storage connectivity, performance, and availability across on-premises infrastructure and Microsoft Azure cloud environments.

• Working knowledge of Commvault, storage snapshots, snapclones, hierarchical storage management, and storage integration for data migration and disaster recovery.

• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving capabilities.

• Excellent written and verbal communication, technical documentation, and collaboration skills.

• Prior experience with VA or federal government infrastructure, especially in data migration, data syndication, or EHR modernization, is a plus.

• Understanding of database architecture, administration, and security for both on-premises and cloud-hosted systems.

• Proficiency with HPE InfoSight, HPE SSMC, HPE 3PAR CLI, HP SSSU, NetApp ONTAP CLI, Pure Storage Pure1, SANnav, and PowerShell.

• Familiarity with AI-driven predictive analytics.

• Experience utilizing AI-assisted tools like GitHub Copilot for storage automation, log and diagnostic analysis, reporting, and documentation.

• Knowledge of secure AI practices, non-production testing, safeguarding sensitive infrastructure information, and PHI/PII, along with federal responsible AI guidelines.

• U.S. Citizenship is mandatory.

• All selected candidates must successfully pass a background check.

• Ability to obtain and maintain a Government/Public Trust clearance, including necessary fingerprinting, when required.

• Candidates must reside within the continental U.S.

• Sponsorship is not available.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical/Dental/Vision coverage.

• 401k plan with Employer Match.

• Paid Time Off (PTO) plus Federal Holidays.

• Corporate Laptop provided.

• Opportunities for Training.

• Remote work opportunities.