Storage Systems Administrator
- Burlington, ON, Canada
Full-time
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Job Summary
This role combines hands-on technical expertise with contributions to long-term infrastructure strategy in a fast-moving semiconductor environment. As part of the global IT Engineering team, the Storage Systems Administrator manages and maintains the company’s global storage estate, including on-premises NetApp and Pure Storage arrays, AWS cloud storage services, and the Druva backup/DR platform. This net-new role supports approximately 2,100 users across 30+ sites in North America, EMEA, and APAC, including mainland China.
The ideal candidate has deep hands-on experience with storage arrays, storage protocols, and cloud storage services. Working closely with IT Infrastructure, Security, and Cloud teams, this role helps ensure data resilience, performance, and security for a growing global semiconductor company.
Responsibilities
All duties and responsibilities are essential job functions and requirements and are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities.
A reasonable estimate of the pay range for this position is $70,000 - $80,000. There are several factors taken into consideration in determining base salary, including but not limited to: job-related qualifications, skills, education and experience, as well as job location and the value of other elements of an employee’s total compensation package.
This role combines hands-on technical expertise with contributions to long-term infrastructure strategy in a fast-moving semiconductor environment. As part of the global IT Engineering team, the Storage Systems Administrator manages and maintains the company’s global storage estate, including on-premises NetApp and Pure Storage arrays, AWS cloud storage services, and the Druva backup/DR platform. This net-new role supports approximately 2,100 users across 30+ sites in North America, EMEA, and APAC, including mainland China.
The ideal candidate has deep hands-on experience with storage arrays, storage protocols, and cloud storage services. Working closely with IT Infrastructure, Security, and Cloud teams, this role helps ensure data resilience, performance, and security for a growing global semiconductor company.
Responsibilities
- Administer and maintain NetApp (ONTAP) and Pure Storage arrays across multiple global sites provisioning, capacity planning, performance tuning, firmware/OS upgrades.(30%)
- Manage and monitor Druva backup jobs, retention policies, and restore operations; troubleshoot backup failures and validate recovery point/time objectives (20%)
- Support AWS storage services (FSx ONTAP, FSx Lustre, S3, EBS) used in multi-region EDA infrastructure, including SnapMirror-based replication from on-prem to cloud (20%)
- Participate in storage migrations, hardware refreshes, and datacenter/colocation transitions. (5%)
- Collaborate with systems, network and security teams on cross-functional issues (25%)
- BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject
- Minimum of 3 years of storage architecture, deployment, administration, performance monitoring/tuning, security hardening, troubleshooting and production operations.
- Hands-on experience with NetApp and Pure storage arrays.
- Hands-on experience on server OSs (GNU/Linux, Microsoft Windows)
- Deep understanding of storage protocols (NFS, CIFS/SMB, iSCSI, FC)
- Working knowledge with AWS storage services (S3, EBS, FSx).
- AWS certification (Architect)
- Experience with virtualization and containerization (e.g., VMware, KVM)
- Experience of deployments in AWS
- NetApp and Pure certifications would be a plus
All duties and responsibilities are essential job functions and requirements and are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities.
A reasonable estimate of the pay range for this position is $70,000 - $80,000. There are several factors taken into consideration in determining base salary, including but not limited to: job-related qualifications, skills, education and experience, as well as job location and the value of other elements of an employee’s total compensation package.
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Responsibilities
Administer and optimize global NetApp and Pure Storage arrays, manage Druva backup and recovery operations, and support AWS storage services and on-premises-to-cloud replication. Contribute to storage migrations and infrastructure transitions while collaborating with systems, network, security, and cloud teams to maintain data resilience, performance, and security.
Requirements
Requires a bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field, at least three years of relevant storage experience, and hands-on experience with NetApp and Pure arrays. Candidates should know Linux and Windows server operating systems, storage protocols such as NFS, SMB, iSCSI, and Fibre Channel, and AWS storage services; AWS, NetApp, or Pure certifications and virtualization experience are desirable.
Skills
- NetApp ONTAP
- Pure Storage
- Druva Backup and Disaster Recovery
- AWS Storage Services
- Storage Administration
- Storage Architecture
- Capacity Planning
- Performance Tuning
- Storage Protocols
- Linux
- Microsoft Windows
- Data Replication
- Backup and Recovery
- Security Hardening
- Troubleshooting
- Virtualization
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- Technology
- Engineering
- Manufacturing
Keywords
- NetApp
- ONTAP
- Pure Storage
- Druva
- AWS
- FSx ONTAP
- FSx Lustre
- Amazon S3
- Amazon EBS
- SnapMirror
- NFS
- CIFS
- SMB
- iSCSI
- Fibre Channel
- GNU/Linux
- Microsoft Windows
- Storage Arrays
- Storage Architecture
- Capacity Planning
- Performance Tuning
- Firmware Upgrades
- Backup and Disaster Recovery
- Data Replication
- Virtualization
- VMware
- KVM
- Semiconductor Manufacturing
- Datacenter Transitions
- AWS Architect Certification