Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Great-West Life - SAN Storage Administrator

Title: SAN Storage Administrator
Skills: SANtricity, Legato, Perl
Date: 11-28-2007
Location: Denver, CO
Area code: 303
Tax term: FULLTIME
Pay rate: Market
Length: perm
Position ID: 4526
Dice ID: greatwco
Job description:
Great-West is currently hiring a Storage Administrator to join our technical team of professionals. Hired person will have the opportunity to participate in an exciting, fast-paced, environment and will play a significant role in: implementing and maintaining an enterprise open systems storage environment delivering storage solutions for projects throughout the organization, providing operational and configuration support for storage related issues and interact with cross-functional teams to provide a reliable, available, stable and on-demand enterprise open systems storage environment.

Required Skills:


- Good understanding of SAN architecture design and configuration using industry best practices and technical specifications.
- Experience provisioning storage arrays on a SAN fabric using SANtricity Storage Manager software
- Good knowledge of Backup/Restore technologies, policies, and procedures, specifically experience with Legato Back-up software
- Strong Perl Scripting skills
- Minimum two plus years of experience supporting an enterprise storage environment to include:


- hands on experience with configuring and implementing SAN/NAS infrastructures including the following like items: STK/SUN, IBM Shark, IBM ESS, Network Appliance arrays, Brocade and McData Switches, hands on experience with a variety of storage backup software tools, such as IBM Tivoli storage manager, Veritas NetBackup and EMC Legato Networker.
- Hands on experience with STK/SUN tape SILO robotic libraries and software.
- Experience developing and maintaining the backup/restore and disaster recovery business continuance strategy related to systems recovery.

- Bachelor degree in Computer Science, or equivalent years of additional experience within the associated job requirements.


Highly Preferred Skills:


- Experience with current storage resource management tools to include storage virtualization.
- Breadth of experience across a variety of other platform technologies including: Oracle, SAP, UNIX, Microsoft Windows, LINUX. Project management experience and customer service skills, and the ability to mentor others and share information.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.


You'll find good people at Great-West. Our good people make us a good company to do business with and a great place to grow your career!

With a century of experience in providing financial security for Americans, Great-West Life & Annuity Insurance Company serves millions of customers through a full range of health plans, life and disability insurance, annuities, and retirement savings products and services. Headquartered in metro Denver with offices around the country, Great-West is a national employee benefits provider with expertise in creative health care management solutions. We are also a leading provider of retirement savings plans. Our corporate departments * including Corporate Administration, Financial Reporting, Human Resources, Investment Management, and Legal * support our Healthcare and Financial Services divisions. Great-West has consistently received high industry ratings for financial strength.

For more information, please visit us at www.greatwest.com. We are an equal opportunity employer dedicated to workforce diversity. We are committed to providing a drug-free workplace.
Travel required: unspecified
Telecommute: no