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Storage administrator resume examples from 2025

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Updated March 26, 2025
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How to write a storage administrator resume

Craft a resume summary statement

Your resume summary sums up your experience and skills, making it easy for hiring managers to understand your qualifications at a glance. Here are some tips to writing the most important 2-4 sentences of your resume:

Step 1: Start with your current job title, or the one you aspire to. Are you a passionate manager? A skilled analyst? It's a good starting point.

Step 2: Next put your years of experience in storage administrator-related roles.

Step 3: Now is the time to put your biggest accomplishment or something you are professionally proud of.

Step 4: Read over what you have written. It should be 2-4 sentences. Your goal is to summarize your experience, not recite your resume.

Hiring managers spend under a minute reviewing resumes on average. This means your summary needs to demonstrate your value quickly and show why you are the perfect fit for the storage administrator position.

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List the right project manager skills

Your Skills section is a place to list all relevant skills and abilities. Here is how to make the most of your skills section and make sure you have the right keywords:

  1. Look at the job listing and skills listed. You need to include the exact keywords from the job description to get your resume in front of an actual human. Do you have those skills? Fantastic! Be sure to list them.
  2. Include as many relevant hard or technical storage administrator skills as possible for each job you apply to.
  3. Be specific with the skills you have and be sure you are using the most up to date and accurate terms.
These five steps should give you a strong elevator pitch and land you some storage administrator interviews.

Here are example skills to include in your “Area of Expertise” on a storage administrator resume:

  • Linux
  • Switches
  • NAS
  • Troubleshoot
  • Isilon
  • VNX
  • Provisioning
  • Storage Systems
  • Disaster Recovery
  • Manage Change
  • Unix
  • NFS
  • CLI
  • Storage Arrays
  • CIFS
  • Capacity Planning
  • Windows Server
  • OS
  • Disk
  • Virtualization
  • Storage Environment
  • Unity
  • Snapshots
  • LUN
  • Azure
  • EMC
  • FC
  • ISCSI
  • Solaris
  • SQL

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How to structure your work experience

A work experience section is a vital part of your resume because it shows you have the experience to succeed in your next job.

  1. Put your most recent experience first. Prospective employers care about your most recent accomplishments the most.
  2. Put the job title, company name, city, and state on the left. Align dates in month and year format on the right-hand side.
  3. Include only recent, relevant jobs. This means if you're a fairly experienced worker, you might need to leave off that first internship or other positions in favor of highlighting more pertinent positions.

How to write storage administrator experience bullet points

Your resume is your chance to show your biggest accomplishments. Don't just list your job responsibilities, instead take the opportunity to show why you're really good at what you do. Here is how you do that:

  • Start with strong action verbs like managed, spearheaded, created, etc. Your goal is to show what you did and verbs will help demonstrate your contributions.
  • Use numbers to quantify your achievements. Did you save time with a new report? Increase revenue? How large was the team you managed?
  • Keep it concise. You're highlighting your achievements. Consider if all details you are sharing are relevant, or can be written more efficiently.

Here are examples from great storage administrator resumes:

Work history example #1

Network Engineer

3 Com

  • Researched and recommended future strategic development in software and hardware.
  • Utilized Perl/cgi, Linux and Apache for internal security web sites.
  • Assisted an Intelligence system administrator with the seamless upgrade from Unix client systems to Windows based systems.
  • Estimated cost of projects to customer and purchased hardware and services on their behalf for implementation to budget and schedule.
  • Monitored network for optimum traffic distribution and load balancing using Solar winds.

Work history example #2

Professional Services Engineer

Ericsson USA

  • Provided support for Account Management ensuring accuracy of all proposals and hardware requirements.
  • Overhauled and managed cloud-based lab with VMware and OpenStack clouds, saving $300k per year.
  • Planned, engineered, and oversaw the hardware deployment schedule and logical implementation of the Sprint packet switches and CDMA hardware.
  • Supported lower level Technical Support Engineers for troubleshooting, data interpretation and resolution.
  • Developed automation tools on Netapp SDK based automation in Perl JavaScript for client.

Work history example #3

Systems Support Engineer

Motorola Solutions

  • Hired to administer Motorola's IT environment supporting its 300,000 square-feet warehouse.
  • Received and registered all new PC's and laptops for Motorola/CSC sectors and set up installation.
  • Developed automated methods for computer system setup.
  • Supported lab of various cellular hardware, performed upgrades and troubleshot connectivity issues, allowing for uninterrupted software testing during development.
  • Connected to customer sites with VPN, NPT or dial-up to further assist the customers.

Work history example #4

Systems Support Specialist (Part-Time)

CenturyLink

  • Performed user acceptance testing and post release validation testing/support for internal system releases.
  • Coordinated and executed capacity increases to several of those systems to accommodate for increased traffic and customer subscription.
  • Worked with customers to correct DSL issues, initial modem setups and existing configuration changes via inbound phone calls.
  • Confirmed DSLAM and RedBack configurations were provisioned correctly.
  • Contributed technical solutions to organizational knowledge base and create new procedures to improve productivity.

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Add an education section to your resume

Employers are looking for a few things when looking at the Education section of your resume:
  • The highest degree you have achieved.
  • TWhere you attended school, and the dates (Although if you graduated some time ago, leave the date off to avoid ageism)
  • TField of study
  • TAny honors, relevant coursework, achievements, or pertinent activities

Here are some examples of good education entries for resumes:

Bachelor's Degree in computer science

University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL

2001 - 2004

Highlight your storage administrator certifications on your resume

If you have any additional certifications or education-like achievements, add them to the education section.

Include the full name of the certification, along with the name of the issuing organization and date of obtainment.

If you have any of these certifications, be sure to include them on your storage administrator resume:

  1. Certified Data Management Administrator (NCDA)
  2. EMC Proven Professional Certification (EMC)
  3. NetApp Certified Data Administrator, ONTAP

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