Systems Administrator

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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

Why TI?

Engineer your future. We empower our employees to truly own their career and development. Come collaborate with some of the smartest people in the world to shape the future of electronics.

We're different by design. Diverse backgrounds and perspectives are what push innovation forward and what make TI stronger. We value each and every voice, and look forward to hearing yours. Meet the people of TI ()

Benefits that benefit you. We offer competitive pay and benefits designed to help you and your family live your best life. Your well-being is important to us.

About Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments Incorporated (Nasdaq : TXN) is a global semiconductor company that designs, manufactures and sells analog and embedded processing chips for markets such as industrial, automotive, personal electronics, communications equipment and enterprise systems. At our core, we have a passion to create a better world by making electronics more affordable through semiconductors. This passion is alive today as each generation of innovation builds upon the last to make our technology more reliable, more affordable and lower power, making it possible for semiconductors to go into electronics everywhere. Learn more at TI.com .

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.

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