Storage Administrator
Saudi Networkers Services · Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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- Monitor replication health, lag, and capacity; troubleshoot and resolve replication failures
- Support DR drills, failover, and failback activities from the storage layer
- Manage snapshots, clones, and retention policies
- Support backup infrastructure and ensure backup storage targets are healthy
- Perform capacity planning, performance tuning, and trend reporting
- Handle incidents and service requests within SLA; perform root cause analysis for recurring issues
- Maintain accurate documentation, runbooks, and storage inventory
- Coordinate with server, virtualization, database, network, and security teams
- Plan and run scheduled DR drills and failover tests, then report results and remediate gaps
- Develop runbooks and convert manual recovery procedures into tested, repeatable automation
- Build monitoring and alerting for replication health, backup success, and DR readiness
- Work with application, infrastructure, security, and business continuity teams to define RTO/RPO per service
- Maintain DR documentation and produce audit and compliance evidence
- Hands-on experience with at least one enterprise storage platform: Dell EMC (PowerStore, PowerMax, Unity, Isilon), NetApp (ONTAP), HPE (3PAR/Primera/Nimble), Pure Storage, Hitachi, or IBM
- Solid understanding of replication technologies, such as SnapMirror/SnapVault, SRDF, RecoverPoint, Hitachi TrueCopy/Universal Replicator, Pure ActiveCluster/ActiveDR, or HPE Peer Persistence
- Knowledge of synchronous vs asynchronous replication, consistency groups, and RPO/RTO trade-offs
- Fibre Channel SAN administration: switches (Brocade/Cisco MDS), zoning, multipathing, HBAs iSCSI, NFS, and SMB/CIFS protocols
- Familiarity with VMware (vSphere, datastores, SRM) and Windows/Linux storage integration
- Understanding of RAID levels, tiering, thin provisioning, deduplication, and compression
- Basic scripting (PowerShell, Python, or Bash) for reporting and routine automation
- Familiarity with monitoring tools and ticketing systems such as ServiceNow
- Bachelor’s degree in IT, Computer Science, or related field (or equivalent experience)
- Proven experience managing replication in a production environment
- Certifications are a plus: Dell EMC (DCS-SA), NetApp NCDA/NCIE, Pure Storage certifications, Brocade/Cisco SAN, VMware VCP, ITIL Foundation