We are seeking a Senior Data Platform Administrator for a long-term contract position, accountable for the reliable operation, lifecycle management, security, resilience, and continuous improvement of enterprise storage, data-protection, monitoring, automation, and supporting infrastructure-service platforms for our client. The role provides hands-on engineering leadership across Dell Technologies storage and data-protection platforms, Cisco SAN switching and NX-OS, infrastructure monitoring, automation and scripting tools, and storage-related AWS services. The position owns backup and recovery validation, storage capacity and performance, monitoring quality, support of disaster-recovery exercises, and support tooling not assigned to the compute role. It provides secondary coverage for compute recovery, storage integration, and disaster-recovery exercises within global standards, ITSM controls, vulnerability and patch programs, and governance expectations. This role is located in Greensboro, NC and onsite is required.
Responsibilities:
Own SAN, NAS, block-storage, backup, monitoring, automation, and infrastructure-service operations, lifecycle, availability, and technical standards, including platform decommissioning. Lead incident response, troubleshooting, RCA, backup/recovery validation, vulnerability remediation, and service restoration for assigned platforms. Perform and coordinate hands-on data-center infrastructure work for assigned platforms, including hardware installation and removal, rack/stack, cabling, diagnostics, parts replacement, RMA activity, remote hands, vendor coordination, and technical decommissioning. Plan and execute storage and backup upgrades, capacity and performance reviews, replication, recovery tests, and corrective actions. Administer monitoring and event-management capabilities, alert quality, automation, scripting, configuration-management tools, version control, and storage-related AWS services; coordinate storage and backup integrations with operating systems, database systems, directory services, virtualization platforms, security tools, and applications. Administer and maintain platform-specific access controls for assigned infrastructure. Maintain runbooks, architecture documentation, evidence, cross-training, and secondary coverage for compute recovery and DR exercises.
