The Solaris and Storage Administrator is an individual contributor who provides advanced, secure, hands-on operational support for Nokia’s NSA Retained infrastructure. The role independently owns complex administration and problem resolution across the retained Solaris/SPARC estate and its storage, backup, monitoring, privileged-access, and migration dependencies. The position serves as a subject-matter expert, leads technical improvements and recovery activities, and influences cross-functional execution while following NSA access restrictions, Nokia governance, customer-specific U.S.-only data-handling requirements, and chain-of-custody controls.
Administer the NSA Retained Solaris/SPARC estate, including T5 hosts, global and non-global Zones, LDOMs, Stromasys instances, and associated utility, test, support, jump, and bastion servers.
Build, configure, patch, troubleshoot, and recover Solaris systems and Zones; validate zone status, services, networking, file systems, ZFS, access, and performance after incidents and planned changes.
Administer retained SAN and NAS services, including NetApp systems, storage connectivity, pools, volumes, LUNs, shares, zoning, masking, multipathing, DNS, AutoSupport, and controller or service-processor issues.
Map server dependencies on SAN switches, dedicated or shared storage, NetApp file services, and application data paths to support migration and operational decisions.
Operate and troubleshoot NetBackup and tape-library services, including policies, schedules, drive paths, robotics, media availability, failed or frozen jobs, restores, and backup-health reporting.
Verify that backup and restore paths preserve NSA Retained access boundaries; document restore activity, affected systems and data, and authorized access.
Monitor retained servers and storage, maintain actionable alerts and dashboards, remove obsolete targets, and respond promptly to availability, capacity, connectivity, and performance issues.
Lead or support incidents involving Solaris hosts and Zones, NetApp file shares, SAN or network paths, backups, physical hardware, and dependent applications; perform root-cause analysis and corrective actions.
Execute migrations and data-center transition activities using approved NSA checklists, dependency validation, rollback plans, post-change testing, inventory updates, and change records.
Enforce least-privilege access and U.S.-only support requirements; validate approvals and required NSA authorization before granting privileged, console, root, or remote access.
Coordinate access removal, password and sudo controls, jump-host administration, vulnerability remediation, security monitoring, audit evidence, and compliance findings with authorized Nokia teams.
Protect chain of custody for retained hardware and media; ensure failed disks and other data-bearing assets are handled, wiped, degaussed, moved, or disposed of only through approved procedures.
Develop, review, test, and automate repeatable Solaris Zone and storage procedures; maintain scripts, runbooks, command records, training material, and operational documentation in approved NSA Retained repositories.
Use Nokia incident, request, story, and change-management processes consistently, and coordinate with application owners, database, network, security, facilities, migration, compliance, and vendor teams.
Participate in an on-call rotation, planned maintenance, migrations, recovery tests, and urgent production support.
Act as the senior technical escalation point for complex Solaris, storage, and backup issues; develop options, assess risk, and recommend sustainable resolutions.
Lead technical planning and execution for lifecycle upgrades, migrations, resilience improvements, recovery exercises, and remediation initiatives.
Define and improve operational standards, health checks, support models, and automation; identify systemic risks and drive preventive corrective actions.
Mentor less-experienced administrators through technical reviews, structured troubleshooting, documented procedures, and hands-on knowledge transfer.
Communicate technical risk, service impact, dependencies, and recommendations clearly to management, compliance stakeholders, application owners, and partner teams.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
- Typically eight or more years of enterprise infrastructure experience, including substantial hands-on administration of Oracle Solaris 10 or 11, SPARC platforms, storage, and backup technologies in business-critical environments.
- Demonstrated experience with Solaris Zones, LDOMs, ZFS, SMF, networking, patching, shell scripting, performance analysis, troubleshooting, and recovery.
- Hands-on administration of enterprise SAN and NAS platforms, preferably NetApp, including Fibre Channel or IP connectivity, LUNs, shares, multipathing, replication, snapshots, DNS, and support connectivity.
- Experience operating enterprise backup systems, preferably NetBackup and physical tape libraries, including policy administration, drive and robotic troubleshooting, restores, and recovery validation.
- Experience supporting tightly controlled infrastructure with privileged-access governance, least privilege, audit evidence, change control, incident management, and chain-of-custody requirements.
- Ability to satisfy Nokia employment, location, authorization, and access requirements applicable to the NSA Retained environment before privileged access is granted.
Demonstrated ability to work independently, lead complex technical activities, influence cross-functional stakeholders, mentor colleagues, and communicate risk and recommendations to technical and non-technical audiences.
Preferred:
- Experience with Oracle T-series systems, legacy Solaris workloads, Stromasys emulation, clustered environments, and data-center migrations.
- Experience with NetApp ONTAP, SAN switching, storage dependency discovery, AutoSupport, service processors, and controller failover analysis.
- Working knowledge of Nokia operational processes and tools for incidents, requests, stories, changes, monitoring, and controlled migration checklists.
- Experience supporting U.S.-only or regulated environments and handling protected customer information under strict access and data-location controls.
- Relevant Oracle Solaris, NetApp, Veritas NetBackup, storage networking, security, or IT service-management certification.
Nokia is a global leader in connectivity for the AI era. With expertise across fixed, mobile and transport networks, powered by the innovation of Nokia Bell Labs, we’re advancing connectivity to secure a brighter world.
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If you’re interested in this role but don’t meet every listed requirement, we still encourage you to apply. Unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences enrich our teams, and you may be just the right candidate for this or another opportunity.
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- Corporate Retirement Savings Plan
- Health and dental benefits
- Short-term disability, and long-term disability
- Life insurance, and AD&D – Company paid 2x base pay
- Optional or Supplemental life and AD&D insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
- Paid time off for holidays and Vacation
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Tuition Assistance Plan
- Adoption assistance
- Employee Assistance Program/Work Life Resource Program
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