Sr. Storage Administrator, Hitachi
Company: Avalon Consulting Solutions
Location: San Jose
Posted on: April 1, 2026
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Job Description:
Sr. Storage Administrator Position Summary Perform all aspects
of SAN & NAS storage administration of a heterogeneous storage
environment and assist in the configuration and management of such.
In addition to performing day-to-day operational support; candidate
will be required to work with Storage vendors and data center teams
for installation/upgrade of storage arrays and SAN devices. Storage
provisioning, SAN driver installations and upgrades, performance
monitoring/tuning, capacity management and general system
trouble-shooting will be integral part of this job. This candidate
will be responsible for managing the HDS Storage subsystems,
microcode upgrades on storage arrays and FC switches and making
sure that it is line with current SAN and NAS storage standards.
Candidate will also be responsible for managing Storage Area
Management/SRM solution on day-to-day basis, performing upgrades,
troubleshooting and functionality enhancements of this environment.
Candidate will work closely with system, database and SAP
administrators and different IT business teams in designing and
architecting storage solutions to meet their business requirements.
Candidate will also ensure all underlying SAN storage configured
and are performing optimally to meet specific application and
business function need. Candidate should be a solid team player and
should be able to work effectively with cross functional global
teams. Good communication skills and project management experience
will be required for this position. Candidate will be required to
carry on-call pager on rotation or as needed basis. Requirements •
BS degree (or equivalent) and min 5-7 years overall experience in
storage and systems administration. Candidates should have prior
extensive experience working in a large SAN & NAS production
support & mission critical environment. • Experience with
architecting, deploying and managing SAN attached high end and
midrange storage platforms like Hitachi Data Systems VSP, USPV,
AMS2500 series will be needed. • Good understanding and hands-on
experience with Hitachi Universal Replicator, True Copy, Shadow
Image, Hitachi Dynamic provisioning, Universal Volume Manager are
required. • Strong hands-on experience with NAS devices
particularly NetApp filers & Isilon Storage Clusters and related
technologies i.e. SnapMirror, SNAPshots & SNAPvault. • Hands-on
experience in designing and implementing Fiber channel SAN fabrics
with Brocade DCX switches and solid understanding of FC protocol in
general will be required. • Solid experience with volume management
software and file systems i.e. Veritas Volume Manager, DMP, VxFS
and other multi-pathing software across heterogeneous operating
systems • Strong exposure and hands on experience with IBM AIX,
Solaris, Linux, Vmware and Windows operating systems. Exposure to
IBM p770, VIO, LPARS, NPIV preferred. • Knowledge of different disk
and file systems performance measuring and benchmarking tools. •
Candidate should have good handle over the requirements gathering,
designing, planning, problem solving, technical analysis of
business problems and presenting it to management. • Analytical
ability to resolve complex issues in a fast paced and challenging
SAN storage environment is needed. • Familiarity and hands-on
experience with SAN storage management product, Hi-command device
manager, tuning manager will be an extra advantage. • Hands-on
experience of Veritas clustering, RAC or other High availability
solutions. • Shell scripting experience will be an extra advantage.
• A prior experience in supporting ERP, Oracle, CRM, DW and other
enterprise applications system & storage infrastructure will be a
plus. Daniel Quinones 714-350-0543 dquinones@avaloncsi.com Avalon
Consulting Solutions, Inc • Solid experience with volume management
software and file systems i.e. Veritas Volume Manager, DMP, VxFS
and other multi-pathing software across heterogeneous operating
systems • Strong exposure and hands on experience with IBM AIX,
Solaris, Linux, Vmware and Windows operating systems. Exposure to
IBM p770, VIO, LPARS, NPIV preferred. • Knowledge of different disk
and file systems performance measuring and benchmarking tools. •
Candidate should have good handle over the requirements gathering,
designing, planning, problem solving, technical analysis of
business problems and presenting it to management. • Analytical
ability to resolve complex issues in a fast paced and challenging
SAN storage environment is needed. • Familiarity and hands-on
experience with SAN storage management product, Hi-command device
manager, tuning manager will be an extra advantage. • Hands-on
experience of Veritas clustering, RAC or other High availability
solutions. • Shell scripting experience will be an extra advantage.
• A prior experience in supporting ERP, Oracle, CRM, DW and other
enterprise applications system & storage infrastructure will be a
plus. Daniel Quinones 714-350-0543 dquinones@avaloncsi.com Avalon
Consulting Solutions, Inc
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