Responsibilities

• To manage and administer the organisation’s SAN Storage infrastructure to ensure high availability, security and performance.
• Configure and manage the the day-to-day operations of EMC Unity SAN storage and Cisco SAN switches
• Determine virtual disks (LUN) requirements and create LUNs from storage arrays.
• Create storage pools on the storage arrays based on various user requirements and storage groups to map virtual disks to servers.
• Work with hardware vendors to troubleshoot and resolve technical issues,
• Perform ongoing performance tuning, resource optimization and capacity planning,
• Monitor usage and performance of storage including LUNs, storage pools, I/O
• Ability to collaborate with other technical staff to resolve system performance issues,
• Upgrade storage firmware and software as required.
• Proficiency in array-based replication
• Configure, monitor, and troubleshoot the SAN fabric, including the ability to create zones, assign ports, and bandwidth allocation.
• Maintain documentation of Storage and SAN switch as well as maintaining accurate hardware/software inventory.

Requirements

• Bachelor degree in Computer Information Systems or related field with 3-5 years of Systems and Storage experience