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Metropolitan State University of Denver
  • Position Number: 1350890
  • Location: Denver, CO
  • Position Type: Computer and Information Technology


Storage & Data Center Administrator

Position Number: E 830
Salary for Announcement: The hiring range is $61,829 $75,345. The final salary will be commensurate with education and experience.
Employee Category: Administrators
Department: ITS Infrastructure & Networking

Position Summary:
This position administers and supports data center operations, data storage arrays and volumes, data backups and data restores, and also maintains, troubleshoots and upgrades hardware. This position is supported by a junior level position.

Follows change and control processes to provide business continuity. Takes charge of storage area networks (SANs), including SAN disk arrays, iSCSI network parameters, and storage resource management applications. Tasks will include trouble-shooting, testing, and implementing changes, addressing help tickets, documenting, and training. This position will manage backups execute and assist with restores.

Metropolitan State University of Denver is an equal opportunity employer.

Duties/Responsibilities:
50% GENERAL DUTIES:
Implements and recommends strategies to improve system reliability, customer experience, backups, decrease costs, and improve implementation times. Monitors applications to ensure that all systems are maintained with high availability and capacity to meet demand, and to ensure that root causes of infrastructure related problems are understood and resolved in a timely manner. Shares knowledge with and trains coworkers and documents practices, procedures and lessons learned.

30 % DISASTER RECOVERY AND BUSINESS CONTINUITY:
Knowledge of business continuity and disaster recovery. Manage backups with extensive knowledge and experience with Hypervisors and enterprise backup utilities. Coordinates with system administrators for VMDK and snapshot restores. Maintain the hardware, firmware, application version, and coordinates vendor support for our storage and backups including SAN disk arrays, and storage resource management applications.

20% MONITOR INFRASTRUCTURE AND REPORTING:
Monitor firmware, patches and upgrades, evaluate and make recommendations for critical security updates. Assist with conducting physical security audits on data centers twice a year. Collaborate with MSU Denver security team to adhere to and apply security policy set by MSU Denver. Produce data storage reports periodically.

Required Qualifications:
Bachelors degree
Five years experience in a similar position. Training or hands on experience in storage administration.
Strong analytical and problem solving skills. Experience communicating technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.
Experience working effectively with all levels of staff, clients and IT personnel.
Experience with enterprise hardware platforms for trouble shooting and resolving hardware level technical issues.

Preferred Qualifications:
Microsoft Systems Administration experience in higher education Information Technology.
Working experience with Oneview, Enterprise level VMware environment and backup systems such as Veeam and Netvault.
Experience with restoring servers and files from backups for disaster recovery and business continuity.
Accomplished communicator, both verbal and in writing, with strong interpersonal skills.

Posting Date: 12/10/2018
Closing Date:
Closing Instructions: Open Until Filled

Special Instructions to Applicant:
Complete applications received by January 04, 2019 will receive full consideration. Position is open until filled.

IMPORTANT: In order to be considered as an applicant you must apply via the online application system, www.msudenverjobs.com.

References refers to a list of three professional references and their contact information.

Official transcripts will be required of the candidate selected for hire.

To apply, visit https://www.msudenverjobs.com/postings/11738





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