Senior Storage Administrator Job Posting

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Job Title:	Senior Storage Administrator
Company:	Synacor
Position Type:	Permanent
Pay Rate:	Based on experience
Date Posted:	Nov-06-09

Synacor is a dynamic, fun and exciting company. Jeans and t-shirts are typical office wear, even for the executives. Flexible work hours accommodate employees with special scheduling needs, early risers and those who need a little caffeinated kick-start each morning. Synacor's headquarters is located along Buffalo's waterfront and the Erie Basin Marina. Taking a few minutes to stretch your legs is as easy as walking the 1,000 feet or so to the water. The office wireless network even reaches a beautiful gazebo, making it easy to spend a little time outside while still being productive. We are looking for great people to join our team and be given the freedom to do the work they were hired to do.

We are seeking a Senior Storage Administrator who will work under limited supervision, administer all aspects of an advanced storage area network. Day-to-day tasks may involve any or all of the following: SAN administration, operating system administration, configuration of mail systems, system installation, fundamentals of security, installing third party software, etc.

Duties and Responsibilities:
• Plan and coordinates utilization, and performs growth analysis and capacity planning of SAN.
• Provides installation, support, and maintenance of servers and other computer systems
• Efficiently manage configuration of 200+ servers and services (web, e-mail, dns, etc)
• Implement/maintain monitoring and trending for all deployed servers and services
• Assists with planning for and responding to service outages and other problems (SLA's)
• Able to take on a leadership role and training role
• Must be able quickly and correctly diagnose problems with computer systems and introduce the best way to fix the problem
• Proficient in scripting or light programming
• Provide leadership and mentoring to other System Administrators
• Support a 24x7 staffing model with on-call shifts that include weekends and Holidays
• Other duties as assigned

What you'll need to bring to the table:
• Bachelor of Computer Science preferred, minimum two years of college or equivalent post-high school education or experience
• 4+ years experience administrating NetApp SANs in a high transactional environment.
• Experience in an Enterprise SAN environment required; with block level access using FC and iSCSI, Director class FC switches in an HA 99.9% uptime environment; Multi-pathing; Knowledge of Linux and driver interaction; NetApp experience and Multi-SAN environment preferred
• System Administration experience in a large-scale Unix (Linux/Solaris/BSD) environment required;
• Experience managing LAMP web-farms serving 10+ million page views daily;
• Experience setting up and regularly using monitoring and trending tools (Zenoss, Cacti, Nagios, Resmon); Monitoring, trending experience for various services a plus
• Experience with managing, operating, monitoring backup systems
• Familiarity with fundamental networking/distributed computing environment concepts; can configure NFS, key-based ssh; DNS; familiar with basic networking concepts: switching, routing (BGP,(R)STP, source routing), firewalls, load-balancing at various layers
• A solid understanding of a UNIX-based operating system; understands paging and swapping, inter-process communication, devices and what device drivers do, filesystem concepts (inode, clustering, logical partitions)
• Independent problem-solving, troubleshooting skills, team player, excellent communication skills all required
• Generally knows several programming languages used for scripting or automation of routine tasks (bash, Perl, PHP)

What we'll bring to the table:
• 100% Company paid benefits (health, dental, vision) for all employees and eligible dependents
• Competitive compensation
• 25 cent vending machines
• Free Spot coffee, popcorn and cappuccino
• Award winning company culture
• Casual dress and flexible environment
• Generous paid time off
• H1B Visa Sponsorship available
• The opportunity to make a difference!

*Relocation to Buffalo, NY is required for this position -- relocation assistance is available

To apply please visit our website; www.synacor.com/jobs

Location:	US-NY-Buffalo
Telecommute:	No (Onsite Position)
Contact Name:	Rachel McCabe
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URL:	http://www.synacor.com/jobs
Contact Comments:
Interested candidates will need to apply online

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