Storage Administrator - Cloud

Interactive Pty Ltd; Sydney; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free onsite barista

Staff benefits and partner discounts

Personal development plans

Job summary

Interactive Pty Ltd is seeking an experienced Storage Administrator to manage and optimise enterprise storage across a complex hybrid environment in Australia. You will work with Pure Storage FlashArray, Dell Unity and PowerScale, with knowledge of NetApp storage, ensuring availability and performance for critical apps and backups.

Responsibilities include provisioning, capacity planning, performance tuning, DR planning, and cross-team collaboration with server, cloud and network teams.

Qualifications

• Deep hands-on experience with enterprise storage platforms and hybrid infrastructure.
• Experience supporting large-scale SAN and NAS environments in enterprise settings.
• Understanding of storage protocols and high-availability concepts.

Responsibilities

• Administer, maintain and support enterprise storage platforms.
• Provision and manage block and file-based storage services.
• Monitor capacity, performance and system health across environments.
• Collaborate with server, backup, cloud and network teams on projects.
• Participate in 24/7 on-call schedule and incident response.

Skills

Enterprise storage admin

SAN & NAS environments

FC/iSCSI/NFS

VMware vSphere

Replication & DR

ITIL concepts

NV1 clearance

Tools

Pure Storage FlashArray

Dell Unity

Dell PowerScale

NetApp

Job description

At Interactive, we help organisations get the most from their technology through managed services, cloud solutions, cyber security, and infrastructure support. With a strong focus on customer outcomes, we partner with businesses across Australia to deliver reliable, secure, and high-performing technology environments.

We are seeking an experienced Storage Administrator to manage, support, maintain, and optimise enterprise storage platforms across a complex hybrid infrastructure environment. The ideal candidate will possess deep hands-on expertise in Pure Storage FlashArray, Dell Unity, and Dell PowerScale (Isilon) storage platforms, with working knowledge of NetApp storage solutions.

The role is responsible for ensuring the availability, performance, security, and resilience of storage infrastructure while supporting business-critical applications, virtualisation platforms, backup environments, and disaster recovery solutions.

Some of the key things you’ll do:

• Administer, maintain and support enterprise storage platforms.
• Provision and manage block and file-based storage services.
• Perform storage allocation, expansion, migration and decommissioning activities.
• Monitor storage capacity, utilisation, performance and overall system health.
• Investigate and resolve storage-related incidents, service requests and performance issues.
• Collaborate with server, backup, cloud and network teams on infrastructure projects and operational support.
• Ensure backup and recovery requirements are met in accordance with business and compliance standards.
• Participate in a 24/7 on-call schedule and support major incident response when required.

What we’re looking for:

• Strong experience in enterprise storage administration.
• Experience supporting large-scale SAN and NAS environments.
• Understanding of Fibre Channel, iSCSI, NFS, SMB/CIFS, S3, Multipathing technologies.
• Experience supporting VMware vSphere environments.
• Experience with storage replication and disaster recovery technologies.
• Understanding of ITIL processes and operational best practices.
• Relevant industry certifications highly regarded.
• Able to obtain a NV1 security clearance.

Why choose us?

• Highly skilled, collaborative team that values expertise and knowledge-sharing.
• Strong learning culture with personalised development plans.
• Commitment to sustainability and community investment.
• Free onsite barista at our Sydney and Melbourne offices.
• Access to a wide range of staff benefits and partner discounts.