IT Storage Administrator

Position Description:

General Dynamics Land Systems Offers:

• Robust Total Rewards program, including: competitive base pay, incentive pay that rewards individual and team performance, and comprehensive benefits
• 401k Match (6%)
• Tuition Assistance
• 9-80 Work Schedule (every other Friday off)
• On-going learning opportunities within a diverse, inclusive and rewarding work environment
• Hybrid Work Location
• Onsite Cafeteria, Fitness Center, and Dry Cleaning

The Storage Administrator’s role is to operate and performance-tune storage platforms across the organization to ensure high levels of data quality, availability, and security. This individual also participates in the planning and implementation of policies and procedures to ensure storage provisioning, efficiency, and maintenance that is consistent with company goals, industry best practices, and security and regulatory requirements.

Company Information

General Dynamics is a successful Fortune 100, global aerospace and defense company, with over 90,000 employees world-wide. General Dynamics Land Systems, a business unit of General Dynamics, has a strong foundation of delivering core engineering and manufacturing capabilities to our clients for military vehicles. Our team is focused on continuous process and productivity improvements that reduce product costs, while increasing troop safety and effectiveness. Land Systems continues to work with the US Armed Forces and its Allies to ensure these vehicles remain survivable, relevant, flexible, affordable and capable of addressing a dynamic threat environment.

General Dynamics Lands Systems provides a competitive compensation package including: 9/80 Work Schedule; 401(k) with Company Match; Bonus Eligibility; Tuition Reimbursement; On-site Fitness Center, Laundry and cafeteria; and comprehensive Medical/Dental/Vision Insurance.

Our Ethos

General Dynamics Land Systems’ ethos is our distinguishing moral nature. Each of us has an obligation to behave according to our values. In that way, we can ensure that we continue to be good stewards of the investments in us by our shareholders, customers, employees and communities, now and in the future. Our ethos is rooted in five values: 1) Honesty – We tell the truth to ourselves and to others. Honesty breeds transparency. 2) Trust – We trust each other to do the right thing. 3) Humanity – We are compassionate and empathetic. We respect the dignity, rights and autonomy of others. 4) Alignment – We are united in our commitment to our values. 5) Value Creation – We create value by doing the right thing for our shareholders, our customers, our employees and our communities.

Responsibilities

Strategy & Planning

• Participate in and support capacity planning and development of long-term strategic goals for enterprise storage in conjunction with data owners and department managers

Acquisition & Deployment

• Work with systems and database administrators to implement storage architectures that utilize industry best practices including Information Lifecycle Management, Hierarchical Storage Management, etc.
• Install and configure storage devices and corresponding software
• Implement redundant systems, policies, and procedures for disaster recovery and archiving to ensure effective protection and integrity of storage appliances and stored data assets
• Establish appropriate end-user access control levels for stored data

Operational Management

• Perform tasks necessary to fulfill service level agreements with end-users regarding storage allocations, limitations, security, and availability
• Perform and test backups and restores to ensure that enterprise data is effectively protected
• Communicate and enforce, through system procedures, data storage retention policies
• Follow change control, incident response, and testing processes for modifications to storage appliances and software
• Anticipate, mitigate, identify, respond to, and resolve issues with storage devices, storage access, and data retrieval
• Research and make recommendations on storage products, services, and standards in support of procurement and development efforts
• Monitor, analyze, and predict trends for storage equipment performance, space allocation, and data growth to recommend enhancements to the IT storage team
• Develop routines for end-users to facilitate storage best practices
• Remain informed on storage laws, trends, and issues, including current and emerging technologies and best practices; advise, counsel, and educate executive and management teams on their relative importance
• Ensure that information storage measures and equipment adhere to all applicable laws and regulations
• Perform storage server/database transaction and security audits leading to identification and mitigation of security threats to enterprise data. Recommend and implement changes where necessary
• Create required reports in response to business user needs
• Develop, document, and maintain operational processes and tasks
• Manage and/or provide guidance to junior members of the team

Position Requirements:

Formal Education & Certification

• Bachelors of Science degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or related is preferred
• Experience will be considered in lieu of degree
• 7 years of experience as a storage administrator

Knowledge & Experience

• Excellent understanding of storage architecture design techniques, theories, principles, and practices
• Working technical experience with designing, building, installing, configuring, and supporting storage servers and management software, including EMC Unity, EMC XIO and Hitachi
• Solid skills in Windows, Solaris and Linux operating systems
• Hands-on [Fibre Channel, iSCSI,…] SAN/NAS/DAS troubleshooting experience
• Experience with tape/disk drives and Netbackup and Networker backup and restore technologies
• Knowledge of change management systems
• Knowledge of applicable data retention practices and laws
• Experience desired in developing and submitting storage audits and compliance reports to governing bodies, legal entities, and/or external authorities
• Project management experience desired
• Skilled at working within a team-oriented, collaborative environments
• Experience working with outside vendors such as Dell, Microsoft, Oracle, EMC, Hitachi, etc.
• Experience in the Defense Industry preferred, but not required

Personal Attributes

• Strong customer service orientation
• Proven analytical and problem-solving abilities
• Able to prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment
• Strong technical documentation skills
• Good oral and interpersonal communication skills
• Skilled at working within a team-oriented, collaborative environment
• Ability to conduct research into storage issues, standards, and products
• Ability to present ideas in business-friendly and user-friendly language
• Highly self-motivated and directed
• Keen attention to detail