Storage and Virtualization Administrator Job in Toronto/Gta, Ontario Canada
Company Info:
Our client, one of Canada's leading law firms, is sourcing a Storage and Virtualization Administrator for their Toronto office. As a national firm it prides itself on its dynamic, positive and team-oriented culture, offering an environment that nurtures mentoring, inspires enthusiasm and motivates employees to put forth their best efforts in achieving firm goals
This is an excellent opportunity for a motivated self starter with excellent problem solving skills to join our dynamic Information Technology Team.
Job Description:
* Support all Enterprise virtual infrastructure maintaining high availability across multiple physical locations
* Support all Enterprise storage physical and logical infrastructure installations, physical and logical
* Manage Enterprise SAN storage to ensure integrity, performance, accessibility and recoverability of data
* Administration of SAN based storage and switched fabric systems
* Documenting configurations, changes, issues and technical diagrams for supported systems in a collaborative Wiki
* Perform problem determination (root cause analysis) and document the source of the problems and their solutions
* Ability to promote a collaborative work/team environment by presenting a professional and responsive attitude towards others and by demonstrating prompt and conscientious work habits
* Responsible for hardware implementation (Racking, stacking, network configuration, cable management, SAN configuration, clustering)
* Take ownership of and participate in special projects as assigned
* Identify recurring problems and recommend preventative measures
* Willing and able to travel as needed to on major projects.
Required Skills:
* Minimum of 3 years of relevant experience in SAN Storage and virtualization, data replication, LUNs creation, presentation and reviewing performance/statistics logs
* Implemented multi-cluster VMware ESX 4.X or ESXi 5.x environments
* Demonstrated problem solving skills and ability to consistently exercise sound judgment and initiative in all circumstances, including very stressful situations.
* Must be able to effectively manage competing priorities
* Demonstrated technical and business written and verbal skills are preferred, proficiency in creating appropriate system documentation is essential
* Implementation and maintenance of the Disaster Recovery hardware and failover/failback processes
* Ability to maintain VM, Disk2Disk and Tape backup infrastructure
* Familiarity with tiered and virtualized storage
* Experience with EqualLogic SANs is preferred