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Job title

Senior Virtualization and Storage Administrator

Company SmartSource
Wage between $0.00 - $0.00 Annually
Location United States, Illinois, Chicago
Employment type Full Time
Education Bachelor
Year Experience 3 - 4 Years of Practical Experience
Travel None
Published on 5/15/2008
Description
Position: Senior Virtualization and Storage Administrator
Location: CHICAGO, IL 60606

Position Summary:
We are looking for a talented Systems Virtualization and Storage Administrator who will be responsible for maintaining and managing the corporate computing infrastructure. The Information Technology team has completed a cutting edge virtualization and optimization strategy, and needs a operations lead to oversee and build upon the system and storage layer subsystems, for new server creation and maintenance.

Education:
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field. Industry experience and professional certification equivalencies considered for those with over 10 years of experience in relevant technologies.

Job Responsibilities: Under the direct supervision of the Computer Operations Manager the job responsibilities include:
" Day-to-day operations of the storage infrastructure.
" Creation and management of virtual machine infrastructure.
" Design, plan, maintain and continued improvements of the corporate datacenter facilities.
" Design, install and maintain core infrastructure services, test disaster recovery cycles at the virtualization and storage layers.
" Maintain systems and backup strategy.
" Install and configure new hardware/software.
" Document processes/procedures/changes.
" System performance tuning and capacity planning.
" Linux System & SAN troubleshooting.

In addition the above the job may also require some network administration, performance tuning, and system security assessment work.

Knowledge & Experience:
At least 8 to 10 years of Systems administration experience. Complete understanding and experience in the following technologies:
" Design, implement, support of Virtualization Environment, based on VMWare ESX 3. VCP Certification preferred.
" NetApp FAS series filers, DataONTAP 7.x FlexVol, FlexClone, SnapManager for Exchange/SQL/Oracle, DFM, SnapDrive, Multipath I/O, boot-from-san, Fiber Channel Protocol, iSCSI, NFS, CIFS
" NACE or NACP Certifications from Network Appliance preferred.
" Experience supporting Oracle10g RAC with NetApp SAN.
" IBM BladeCenter and xSeries servers
" Brocade Silkworm SAN switches, directors, and management suites
" Redhat packaging and compiling experience, database troubleshooting of any flavor under Linux (MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL).RHCE Preferred. Advanced TCP/IP troubleshooting skills
Self motivated problem solver who has worked in or consulted for a large server environment will be given preference. They look for intelligent, ambitious people willing to work hard in a team oriented environment. Candidates must have excellent organization skills, diagnostics and problem solving abilities as well as strong written and verbal communication skills. Candidate must be energetic, able to clearly communicate ideas, and willing to be on call 24 x 7.
Compensation & Benefits:
Customer offers a comprehensive benefit package, including health, dental, and life insurance; company-matched 401(k); retirement plan, profit sharing; and paid vacation, holidays and personal time.
Compensation is commensurate with experience.

Contact: Please send in your resumes jcarr@smartsource-inc.com with the keyword "Virtualization & SAN Administrator" in the subject line.df-tc

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Senior Virtualization and Storage Administrator
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