SAN Storage and Fabric Administrator - Hybrid

*** Very long term project; initial PO for 1 year, expect to go for 4+ years Hybrid *** Need 3 references

JOB DESCRIPTION:

This is an urgent, business critical, PAQ to provide coverage for the area of SAN storage and SAN fabric, related to day-to-day support and administration activities. Expected duties to include, but not be limited to, the following:

• Manage LUN's, NAS, Fabric switches and connections to the storage arrays on the Production and Test/Development environments
• Provision new LUN's as requested, and reclaim storage when applicable
• Work with the virtualization team and fine tune storage configurations to get the best performance/resource utilization
• Detection of SAN issues, monitoring and ownership of standards and requirements
• Verify, create and remove NTFS permissions as requested
• Participate in capacity planning for the infrastructure
• Provide tools and procedures for resources provisioning
• Document processes and procedures
• Propose storage provisioning solutions to be analyzed and/or implemented
• Evaluate and apply version updates of firmware and software to controllers and arrays
• Develop and implement test plans to verify installation, upgrades or repairs, including back-out plans
• Daily management of Veeam Backup and Replication jobs, including Office 365
• Create new backup jobs as required to maintain industry standard of 3-2-1 retention
• Outstanding communication skills
• Excellent troubleshooting skills
• Ability to provide after-hours support occasionally as needed
• Excellent organizational and time management skills
• Ability to work both independently and as a member of a team
• Initiative to research and resolve problems 

Minimum skillsets required by the Offeror's staff performing the work under the resulting contract must include:

• 5+ years experience with SAN, NAS and Fabric administration and support
• Working experience with Dell Unity administration (CloudIQ) and support
• Basic understanding of vSphere and Horizon environments
• Strong focus on storage capacity planning and performance tools