Senior SAN Storage Administrator

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<li>Lead, mentor, and develop the Storage and Backup team, managing priorities, on-call coverage, and escalations.</li>
<li>Oversee the day-to-day operations, monitoring, performance, and overall health of the PowerMax and PowerStore storage environments.</li>
<li>Manage storage provisioning, capacity planning, performance optimization, upgrades, and migration activities.</li>
<li>Own and manage the backup and data protection environment across PPDM, Commvault, and Data Domain.</li>
<li>Ensure backup and recovery operations meet defined RPO and RTO requirements, including regular recovery testing and validation.</li>
<li>Lead disaster recovery planning, testing, and coordination during incidents and recovery scenarios.</li>
<li>Ensure compliance with applicable security, data retention, and ransomware resilience requirements.</li>
<li>Drive automation, operational excellence, and continuous improvement initiatives, while providing management with regular reports on capacity, utilization, SLAs, and overall service performance.</li>
</ul><h2>Requirements</h2><ul>
<li>4+ Years in similar role.</li>
<li>Expert hands-on experience with Dell PowerMax and PowerStore storage arrays.</li>
<li>Strong experience with Power Protect Data Manager (PPDM), Commvault, and Dell Data Domain.</li>
<li>Solid knowledge of SAN/NAS (Fibre Channel, iSCSI, NFS, SMB), replication, and DR concepts.</li>
<li>Familiarity with virtualization (VMware) and its storage integration.</li>
<li>Strong leadership, troubleshooting, and communication skills.</li>
</ul><h2>Preferred</h2><ul>
<li>Relevant Dell Technologies certifications and VMware certification (VCP).</li>
<li>Scripting/automation experience (PowerShell, Python).</li>
<li>Experience with immutable/air-gapped backups and ransomware recovery.</li>
<li>Familiarity with ITIL processes.</li>
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