Storage Engineer TS/SCI

Storage Engineer - TS/SCI
Arnold, MO - Onsite

Responsibilities and Duties
• Design, architect, configure, deploy, upgrade and support various storage and
backup platforms and associated management tools.
• Diagnose and troubleshoot storage systems and other related technologies
• Adhere to engineering and architecture standards and participate in technical
review meetings as required
• Participate in the evaluation, deployment, management, and integration of new
technologies in alignment with other engineers, architects, and technical service
lanes
• Incident support and participation in on-call rotation during off hours and
weekends
• Create and maintain documentation: logical/physical diagrams, run books and
other technical engineering documents
• Consistently demonstrate initiative and commitment to optimizing systems and
processes
• Oversee the Installation of new storage hardware and software according to
standard operating procedures
• Oversees the updates to hardware, operating systems, and software as needed
to provide required functionality and security
• Ensures systems are monitored and statistics relevant to capacity, performance,
utilization, etc. are collected and regularly reviewed
• Keeps abreast of current developments in storage and backup technology to
assist Federal staff in assessing the future direction of storage and backup
technology
• WHAT YOU'LL NEED TO SUCCEED:
• Required Qualifications and Skills
• BS degree and 8+ years of related experience; or equivalent combination
• Hands-on engineering experience with NetApp and other storage technologies
and concepts
• Experience with SAN, NAS and iSCSI storage implementations
• Experience with capacity planning and sizing storage and backup environments
• Experience in performance tuning and optimizing storage and backup
environments
• Experience with data center migrations and storage replication technologies
• Senior level experience with design, development, implementation and
maintenance of large-scale systems, preferably across multiple hardware
platforms and data centers
• Strong understanding of high availability concepts with practical experience and
implementation of key components in storage environment
• Strong understanding of fundamental hardware concepts: disk, memory, CPU,
NIC, HBA, firmware, RAID, performance concepts (I/O, paging, swapping,
system calls), iSCSI, Fiber Channel, Ethernet
• Strong understanding of essential TCP/IP concepts: TCP, UDP, ICMP, SMTP,
SNMP, LDAP, DNS, NTP, etc.
• Understanding of security best practices, federal hardening requirements
(FISMA, STIG, etc.)
• CompTIA Security+ or similar for IAT Level II DoD 8570 certification
• Proficient written and oral communication skills
• Strong collaborative attitude and ability to work in a team environment
• Ability to take direction

Desired Qualifications and Skills
NetApp Certification
PowerShell/Python scripting experience
Experience leveraging scripts to audit and enforce configuration standards
Amazon Web Services / C2S experience

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