• Senior Storage Administrator

    IBM (Mclean, VA)


    Introduction

    A career in IBM Consulting is rooted by long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe.

     

    You'll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio, including Software and Red Hat.

     

    Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success in IBM Consulting. In your role, you'll be encouraged to challenge the norm, investigate ideas outside of your role, and come up with creative solutions resulting in groundbreaking impact for a wide network of clients. Our culture of evolution and empathy centers on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.

    Your role and responsibilities

    As a Senior Storage Administrator, you’ll work with the Storage and Data Protection team in support of a federal healthcare enterprise environment, including medical and scientific research and administration. In this role, you will be responsible for installing, maintaining, troubleshooting, and coordinating the use and proper operation of the storage and backup environments, ensuring the client’s critical science and research is stored, backed up, and protected.

     

    * Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust Clearance

    * Hybrid role requires onsite work at our Rockville, MD location (on-call rotation required)

    * Certification: current ITIL v4 Foundation, or able to obtain within 12 months

    Required technical and professional expertise

    * 1+ Years Admin support for storage devices, including Vast, Hitachi, NetApp, Isilon, Brocade etc.

    * 1+ Years Support of enterprise-level, on-premises backup environments, preferably with Commvault Simpana

    * 2+ years Review and maintain data permission and security in consult with primary data owners

    * 2+ years perform routine firmware/software updates, planned and emergency maintenance, and other tasks as required to maintain the infrastructure

    * Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust Clearance

    Preferred technical and professional experience

    * Experience maintaining a multi-tiered storage environment including multiple SAN/NAS platforms

    * Strong working knowledge of ServiceNow, managing tickets and fulfilling service request

    * Working knowledge of all phases of the engineering lifecycle including: conceptualization, planning, requirements gathering, design, development, testing, implementation, operations, and maintenance

    * Strong attention to detail, and awareness of surroundings (as working in a data center is required)

     

    IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.