[BBLISA-jobs] Sr. LAN Storate Administrator at Tufts University

[Harry Alexanian]

*SR. LAN STORAGE ADMINISTRATOR #35539*

The LAN Systems group of the University Information Technology (UIT) 
department consists of Microsoft operating systems administrators and 
network administrators who oversee and manage the servers and 
infrastructure constituting the Tufts Microsoft domain. This LAN 
environment spans all three Tufts campuses and contains approximately 
100+ servers and over 12,500 accounts. The group manages over 200 TB of 
storage including 50 TB of file sharing storage on a NetApp NAS cluster, 
a NetApp 270c for the Medical School, and an HA VMware deployment using 
Equallogic iSCSI storage.

The Senior LAN Storage Administrator is responsible for the 
installation, configuration, monitoring, troubleshooting, and support in 
a multiprotocol environment including the NetApp FAS6040 Cluster, 
FAS3050c, FAS3020c, FAS270c, HP MSA1000 SAN (Exchange), Equallogic iscsi 
SAN (Vmware VI3). In addition the Senior LAN Storage Administrator will 
be involved in tasks such as: project participation; virus protection; 
evaluation and implementation of third party products; performance and 
tuning; capacity planning; change control; and problem resolution. 
She/he will serve as storage liaison with other Tufts system 
administration groups that could encompass planning, designing, and 
architecting storage solutions for the university as a whole.

The Senior LAN Storage Administrator must have a strong commitment to 
quality control, best practices, and standard production services. 
He/she will have strong communication skills with both technical and 
non-technical staff, experienced troubleshooting skills, and good 
judgment under sometimes stressful situations. The ability to work 
independently and manage and prioritize multiple competing tasks and 
projects is also essential. This individual will have responsibilities 
for off-hours pager coverage.

This is a new position within UIT that deals with storage for file 
sharing, email, archives, Oracle, and SQLserver DBs in support of 
Academic, Research, Administrative and Enterprise applications.

*Basic Requirements:*
* Bachelor’s degree OR three (3) years of equivalent experience
* At least five (5) years of related technical experience
* Extensive experience as a Storage Architect focused engineer with 
NetApp products
* Experience with Active Directory, Windows and with UNIX platforms such 
as, Linux, Solaris, AIX
* Experience working in a large, decentralized, multi-platform, 
multi-protocol production Datacenter environment
* Solid project management and technical planning experience with the 
ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects
* Ability to communicate effectively with people at all levels within 
the university
* Expertise with the following protocols, CIFS, NFS, iSCSI, FC
* High Availability and Disaster Recovery experience
* Strong skill-set and hands-on experience in NetApp design/architecture 
& deployment
* Strong experience in design and deployment of all NetApp solutions 
including: Deduplication; Snap Mirror; Snap Restore; Snap Drive for 
Windows and Unix; Snap Manager for Exchange and Oracle; Operations 
Manager (DFM)
* Working knowledge of TCP/IP principles as well as switched and routed 
ethernet

*Preferred Qualifications*
* Experience with the following is a plus: Legato Networker, Trend Micro 
Server Protect, NTP Quota and File Sentinel
* Experience with the following hardware a plus: HP FC SAN and Equallogic
* Experience with ONTap 7.x is preferred

Tufts University is an AA/EOE employer and actively seeks candidates 
from diverse backgrounds.

*TO APPLY*
Go to www.tufts.edu/hr/jobs, click on "Search all Jobs" and key in req. 
#35539

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