[Hiring] Senior Storage Administrator @Siemens

Role Description

As a Senior Storage Administrator, you will be instrumental in driving efficiency and innovation by assisting with the automation of our enterprise storage infrastructure. You'll leverage your deep expertise in NetApp and EverPure/Pure Storage to deliver highly available, performant, and cost-effective solutions, playing a critical role in our digital transformation journey.

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for critical storage operations support in a primarily NAS environment.
• Participate in a global on-call rotation.
• Perform problem resolution in an effective and timely manner in accordance with SLA's and customer expectations.
• Manage time and prioritize tasks to accommodate business requirements and scheduled activities.
• Work well in a team environment and possess strong written and verbal communication skills.

Infrastructure Management

• Storage platforms administration, monitoring, upgrading, installation and setup, configuration, testing, and deployments optimized for software development and build environments.

Performance Engineering & Tuning

• Drive performance tuning, capacity planning, and troubleshooting in large-scale enterprise environments with high IOPs and throughput demands.

Automation & Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

• Spearhead process automation, expert scripting, and IaC to enable self-service storage provisioning for engineering teams.

Vendor & Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner closely with architecture, DevOps, and service delivery teams on new and existing infrastructure initiatives.
• Manage vendor escalations for critical support issues.

Operations & Support

• Handle tier-3 support tickets for complex customer/developer issues.
• Participate in a global on-call rotation.
• Ensure reliable operations in a primarily NAS/SAN environment in accordance with strict SLAs.

Qualifications

• BS degree (or equivalent) in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field. MS degree is preferred.
• 5+ years of directly applicable enterprise storage administration experience in large-scale corporate or software engineering environments.
• 5+ years working with Network Appliance NAS/SAN technologies, including in-depth experience with NetApp Cluster Mode (cDot) and management tools (e.g., Active IQ Unified Manager).
• Hands-on administration and troubleshooting experience with Everpure Storage or modern all-flash scale-out platforms.
• Robust understanding of Data Protection technologies, including SnapMirror/Snapvault replications and disaster recovery paradigms.
• Demonstrated experience supporting software development organizations, understanding the unique IO profile of software builds, test execution, compilation workloads, and artifact repositories.
• Familiarity with High-Performance Computing (HPC) and EDA (Electronic Design Automation) storage requirements.
• Strong scripting and automation skills using Python, PowerShell, Ansible, REST APIs, and Terraform/IaC.
• Solid understanding of networking protocols (NFS, SMB/CIFS, TCP/IP) and deep operating system administration skills (Linux and Windows).
• Solid understanding of problem management, incident management, and change control processes in a global enterprise.

Requirements

• Exposure to modern developer tools and CI/CD pipelines (Git, Jira, Confluence, Jenkins, Docker/Kubernetes persistent volumes).
• NetApp Certified Storage Associate/Professional (NCSA/NCIE) or Pure Storage certifications highly desired.
• Experience with OpenStack, VMware, or hybrid-cloud storage tiering.
• Specific familiarity with semiconductor or mechanical EDA tool storage tuning.

Benefits

• Variety of health and wellness benefits.
• Flexibility in working from home and the office.
• Competitive pay range of 129,600 - 233,300 annually with a target incentive of 5-10% of the base salary.