Senior Storage Administrator (259081)
Information
| Information Technology | |
| Mid Career (2-6 years) | |
| Not specified |
Company
| Not specified | |
| Banking | |
| Downtown, Cairo, Egypt |
Description
- Participate in and support capacity planning and development of long-term strategic goals for enterprise storage in conjunction with data owners and department managers.
- Work with systems and database administrators to implement storage architectures that utilize industry best practices including [Information Lifecycle Management, Hierarchical Storage Management].
- Install and configure storage devices, backup systems and corresponding software.
- Implement redundant systems, policies, and procedures for disaster recovery and archiving to ensure effective protection and integrity of storage appliances and stored data assets.
- Establish appropriate end-user access control levels for stored data.
- Perform tasks necessary to fulfill service level agreements with end-users regarding storage allocations, limitations, backup and restore activities, security and availability.
- Perform and test backups and restores to ensure that enterprise data is effectively protected.
- Communicate and enforce, through system procedures, data storage retention policies.
- Follow change control, incident response, and testing processes for modifications to storage appliances and software.
- Anticipate, mitigate, identify, respond to, and resolve issues with storage devices, storage access, and data retrieval.
- Research and make recommendations on storage products, services, and standards in support of procurement and development efforts.
- Monitor, analyze, and predict trends for storage equipment performance, space allocation, and data growth to recommend enhancements to the IT storage team.
- Develop routines for end-users to facilitate storage best practices, including desktop storage administration.
- Remain informed on storage laws, trends, and issues, including current and emerging technologies and best practices; advise, counsel, and educate executive and management teams on their relative importance.
- Ensure that information storage measures and equipment adhere to all applicable laws and regulations.
- Perform storage server/database transaction and security audits leading to identification and mitigation of security threats to enterprise data. Recommend and implement changes where necessary.
- Create required reports in response to business user needs.
- Develop, document, and maintain operational processes and tasks.
- Manage and/or provide guidance to junior members of the team.
Requirements
- Bachelor Degree in Computer Science or any relevant major from a reputable university.
- Minimum 5 years of relevant experience.
- Understanding of networking concepts, firewalls, ports, TCP, UDP, routing tables, subnets, VLANS
- Fluency in English is a must.
- Excellent Communication Skills
| Created on | 01 Mar 2022 |
| Last updated on | 04 Jan 2023 |