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Texas Instruments Systems Administrator in Dallas, Texas

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Texas Instruments (TI) is looking for a Storage Infrastructure Engineer/Administrator to join our global team. Storage Infrastructure Engineers/Administrators are technology experts who have strong knowledge and understanding of various storage infrastructure components, ability to plan, architect and implement scalable and reliable storage solutions, enable automations to support various business critical needs of an organization.

In this role, you will support and manage various IT critical storage infrastructure, work on technology roadmaps, enable automation, plan, architect, document, implement technical solutions and train support teams to ensure critical infrastructure issues are addressed proactively. This role also provides opportunities to gain high visibility across several layers of our organization.

In this role you will:

  • Work as a storage technology expert, provision, manage and administer wide variety of storage infrastructure spread across various TI sites

  • Provide day to day operational support for critical storages of Manufacturing and Enterprise

  • Work on strategy and roadmap for next gen storage technologies and drive the migrations form current platforms

  • Connect with internal customers, understand the critical needs and architect the right technology solutions meeting customer requirements

  • Enable automation/self-service for repetitive administration and provisioning tasks using Orchestration, DevOps, scripting tools and storage management software.

  • Support following storage technologies

  • Hitachi SAN, GAD, NAS, HCP S3, HCSF, True copy and replication technologies

  • NetApp filers including Metro Cluster configurations

  • Dell Power scale Isilon NAS Storage, EMC Power Vault SAN, ECS S3 storage

  • PURE storage systems

  • Cisco SAN switches

  • Work on storage management tools like

  • Software Defined Storage Tools, Hitachi Ops Center, Hitachi Device manager, Hitachi Storage Navigator, Hitachi Hi-Track, Cisco NDFC, Cisco DCNM, PURE Storage management, NetApp Cluster Mode ONTAP, NetApp WFA, NetApp Unified manager, NetApp Active IQ, KIWI syslog, Trend AV scanner for storage, Samba Manager (KNUKS), Dell EMC Isilon Insight IQ, Dell EMC Isilon Data Replication technologies.

  • Analyze capacity and performance monitoring of end to end storage infrastructure components

  • Troubleshoot hardware and software errors, documenting problems and resolutions, prioritizing problems, and assessing impact of issues

  • Vendor coordination for any hardware/software related issues and update management.

  • Coordination with multiple TI site teams and other IT support teams/management

Qualifications

Minimum requirements:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Information Technology, or related degree

  • 4 years of related work experience.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Strong skills supporting above mentioned storage landscape and technologies

  • Ability to establish strong relationships with key stakeholders critical to success, both internally and externally

  • Self-motivated, eager to learn new tools and technologies

  • Ability to quickly ramp on new systems and processes

  • Demonstrated strong interpersonal, analytical and problem-solving skills

  • SRE/Automation/DevOps mindset and skills to solve critical and technical challenges

  • Ability to quickly troubleshoot and resolve complex problems

  • Ability to work in teams and collaborate effectively with people in different functions

  • Work closely with global teams spread across regions in other time zones

  • Ability to take the initiative and drive for results

  • Strong time management skills that enable on-time project delivery

  • Strong verbal, written communication and presentation skills

  • Flexible to work across time zones for team meetings and critical operational needs

  • Experience in working with ITSM tools and following change management process

Technical Abilities

Solid hands-on experience in managing the following

  • Software Defined Storage

  • Hitachi SAN and NAS arrays

  • Hitachi Content Platform (HCP) S3 storages

  • Hitachi Ops Center, Hitachi Storage Navigator, Device manager

  • Cisco MDS SAN switches

  • Cisco NDFC and DCNM technologies

  • Creating and managing zones, zone sets and fabric configurations

  • PURE storage management

  • NetApp CDOT and 7 Mode clusters

  • NetApp Unified manager or NetApp Active IQ

  • Experience in Dell Power Scale Isilon, Power Vault DAS and ECS S3 storage is a plus

Strong skills in analyzing data, innovate through data driven insights for performance monitoring and capacity planning of storage environments

  • Strong understanding of user management, access management, CIFS, NFS, SMB and S3 protocols

  • Strong debugging, problem-solving and root cause analysis skills.

  • Working knowledge of the I/O subsystem for VMWare and bare-metal Linux and Windows

  • Good skills in following technology areas

  • Operating System: UNIX, Linux (RHEL, CentOS, Rocky), Windows

  • Scripting/Automation/Web: React, Python, PowerShell, Unix Shell.

  • Virtualization: VMWare, Hyper-V, vSAN

  • Containers: Docker, Kubernetes

  • Network Data Management Protocol, SNMP

  • Knowledge on computer hardware and computer networking fundamentals

Texas Instruments is an equal opportunity employer and supports a diverse, inclusive work environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, disability, genetic information, national origin, gender, gender identity and expression, age, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.

If you are interested in this position, please apply to this requisition.

Status Regular

Job: Information Technology

Primary Location: US-TX-Dallas

Work Locations: Dallas > North Campus - Kilby East Dallas

Req ID: 240006SM

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