SAN Storage Administrator - CISCO/EMC Fibre Channel SAN Infrastructure - Global Investment Bank - London - CONTRACT (Market Rate)

SAN STORAGE ADMINISTRATOR - CISCO/EMC FIBRE CHANNEL SAN INFRASTRUCTURE - GLOBAL INVESTMENT BANK - CONTRACT - LONDON

PTS Resourcings' client urgently requires an experienced SAN Storage Administrator with around 3 years minimum supporting and administering large production SAN Infrastructures.

Your key responsibilities are to:

• Configure the environment in preparation for FC or IP based replication as well as the deployment of a new Datacentres
• Work with the SDC and Storage Project Team to fulfil requests related to migration activity of data, hosts and storage.
• Have knowledge or 3Par, EMC, NetApp and Cisco hardware and the configuration of these technologies.
• Manage, maintain and enhance the SAN disk and Fibre Channel switched network infrastructure.
• Assist other team members where appropriate in managing other storage infrastructure (NAS and CAS systems).
• Manage SAN capacity and performance using appropriate reporting monitoring tools.
• Ongoing evaluation and analysis of the storage infrastructure to provide optimum performance.
• Liaise with appropriate application development representatives to optimise value to the business.
• Liaise with third party vendor operations management.
• Ensure the business area conducts its activity in accordance with all relevant external regulators.
• Ensure compliance with the regulatory and statutory requirements and compliance policies and procedures affecting the business area. 
• Ensure the business unit operates in accordance with stipulated risk management policies and procedures, covering market risk, credit risk and operational risk.

Your background will include:

• Fibre Channel SAN Infrastructure (Cisco): high end Fibre channel Directors (Cisco MDS 9513 and 9222i for FCIP) in a Core/Edge topology and EMC SAN Management software (eg Cisco Fabric Manager, SRDF, TimeFinder, SYMCLI including symconfigure)
• SAN Storage (EMC) infrastructure: EMC DMX, Clariion including CX-3, Centera and associated software (EMC Control Centre and Work Load Analyser, StorageScope, Navisphere, SANscreen) and 3Par
• NetApp software (ONTAP 7.x, Clustered failover, FlexVol, SnapMirror, SnapShot, DFM)
• Previous roles migration Platform/Operating Systems administration (Windows or Unix)
• Supplementary Experience: (Useful additional skills)
• Network Appliance Storage Associate certification
• Network Appliance (NetApp) range of hardware (FAS200, 2000, 900, 3000, 6000 series)
• CAS (Content Addressed Storage): EMC Centera and Information Life Cycle (eg Symantec KVS) archiving systems
• Symantec Netbackup, Veritas Volume Manager, Veritas File System, Veritas Cluster Server
• Personal Attributes:
• Self motivated individual
• Hardworking and dedicated team player
• Able to communicate at all levels.
• Strong investigative skills

If this sounds like you, please send your Word CV to Robin.Pettitt@ptsconsulting.com (0207 539 6310) as soon as you're able. Thank You.