Network Administrator jobs in Stamford, CT

Our client in the insurance industry is seeking a motivated Storage Area Network Administrator. This ideal candidate will be leveraging their extensive analytical and problem-solving skills to diagnose and resolve storage-related issues, prioritize tasks, manage time effectively, and maintain accurate documentation, and effectively collaborating with the client's project and production teams, as well as vendors.

I. Technical Skills

• Storage Area Network (SAN):

• Proven experience (2 years) provisioning, implementing, maintaining, monitoring, and performance tuning storage arrays from HPE including:

• 3PAR

• Primera

• Nimble

• MSA

• StoreOnce

• SAN Switches (Brocade)

• Should be proficient in design, configuration, administration, tuning, optimization, and troubleshooting for these HPE storage arrays and Brocade SAN Switch.

• Fibre Channel (FC) SAN:

• Proficient in FC zoning using Brocade SAN Navigator in a Brocade FC switch environment.

• Must know about Brocade FC switch design, configuration, and administration.

• Storage Management:

• Experience performing storage capacity and performance reporting using SSMC System Reporter.

• Can use reports to calculate storage usage trends for capacity planning.

• Experience monitoring, escalating, and remediating SAN device/application performance alerts to identify potential incidents.

• Backup and Recovery:

• Proficient in configuring, monitoring, administering, and maintaining backup environments.

• Ability to ensure backups run successfully and on schedule.

• Have a extensive understanding of backup reports to identify and troubleshoot backup issues.

• Microsoft File Servers:

• Proficiency in Microsoft file server technology, including DFS, patch management, and file restores using shadow copy.

• General IT Skills:

• Have familiarity with operating system patching procedures for SAN devices, FC switches, and backup devices.

II. Other Skills

• Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication skills to collaborate effectively with internal teams (Project, Production) and vendors.

• Problem-solving: extensive analytical and problem-solving skills to diagnose and resolve storage-related issues.

• Organization: Ability to prioritize tasks, manage time effectively, and maintain accurate documentation.

• Business Continuity and DR: Experience contributing to business continuity planning and disaster recovery (DR) strategies.

III. Desired Qualifications

• Candidate should have a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field (preferred).

• Industry certifications relevant to storage technologies (e.g., HPE, Brocade, and Rubrik ) are a plus.

• Experience level: Experienced
• Minimum 3 years of experience
• Education: Bachelors