We are seeking a 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

What you’ll be doing:
• Plan and coordinates utilization, and performs growth analysis and capacity planning of SAN.
• Provides installation, support, and maintenance of storage devices 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 storage devices 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 storage 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 bring to the table:
• Bachelor of Computer Science
• 2+ 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 6+ 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 package, including stock option grants (for eligible positions)
•Award winning company culture with growth opportunities
•Casual dress and flexible environment
•Generous paid time off
•25 cent vending machines
•Free Spot coffee, popcorn and cappuccino
•Monthly company connections (get to know your co-workers)
•The opportunity to make a difference!

Synacor is not your typical 9 to 5 workplace. Our award winning culture doesn’t stop at flexible work hours and 25 cent vending machines. Jeans and t-shirts are typical office attire, even for the executives. Teamwork is an everyday occurrence, and is made easy with our new open workspaces. Our leadership team understands that the best results come from collaboration, so we hire the best and brightest and then let them do what they do best: create cutting-edge products and provide exemplary customer service. Synacor’s headquarters is located along Buffalo’s waterfront in the Erie Basin Marina. Taking a few minutes to enjoy the serenity of nature is as easy as walking 1,000 feet or so to the water. We even have a lakefront gazebo with wi-fi connection! And if that’s not enough, Synacor pays 100% of health care premiums for employees AND dependents, offers stock option participation, a healthy bonus potential and a very generous paid time off policy. Working with some of the largest cable, telecom and satellite providers, Synacor’s products and online services reach over 25 million high-speed Internet subscribers worldwide. We are looking for great people to join our team and be given the freedom to do the work they were hired to do.