Storage Engineer - Top Secret/SCI
$107,900–$195,050 year
On-siteBethesda, Maryland, United States
Bethesda, Maryland, United StatesOn-siteFull Time$107,900–$195,050 yearSmall
Full TimeSmall
Job Summary
Design scalable enterprise storage architectures supporting performance, resiliency, and high availability across on-premise and cloud environments. Engineer life cycle replacement strategies, install and configure Dell EMC, Quantum, and Rubrik systems, and administer Cisco Brocade switch fabrics. Monitor backup policies, troubleshoot job failures, and manage volume snapshots for disaster recovery and continuity of operations. Build capacity management dashboards, automate operations via system APIs, and resolve tier 2 and tier 3 service requests. Coordinate with Change Management to schedule maintenance windows and firmware updates while mentoring junior team members. Work independently with minimal supervision to support a 24/7/365 customer environment in a 100% on-site role at the National Digital Exploitation & OSINT Center.
Required Qualifications
- Top Secret/SCI clearance
- US Citizenship
- TS/SCI Poly
- Bachelor's degree
- 8+ years of relevant experience
- Masters degree with 6+ years of experience
- DoD 8140/8570.11- IAT Level II certification requirements
- IAT Level III certification
- Experience administering enterprise-level data storage systems (Dell Storage Center, Dell Compellent, and Data Domain)
- SAN administration including provisioning of LUNs, managing fibre channel zoning, and mapping storage to servers
- NAS administration including NFS and SMB file sharing
- Integration with VMWare ESX Server
- Data migration strategies
- Snapshots
- Volume replication
- Managing file and share permissions in an Active Directory environment
- Storage monitoring and performance tuning
- Understanding of Cloud storage management
- Experience managing and administering Veritas Rubrik
- Experience with scripting technologies such as PowerShell
- Working knowledge of Unix or Linux based operating systems
- Working knowledge of Distributed File System (DFS)
- Excellent communication skills
- Ability to complete complex projects with minimal direction
- Experience working independently to support a 24/7/365 customer environment
- Experience contributing to deliverables and meeting performance metrics
- Experience coordinating with senior management and customers
- 100% on-site position
- All work must be performed at the customer site
Desired Qualifications
- Masters degree (in lieu of Bachelor's with 8+ years)
- Additional years of relevant experience (in lieu of degree)
- Experience with Disaster Recovery and COOP storage backup and recovery within and across the data centers and the Cloud
- Ability to analyze cloud migration approaches to support customer decision making for effective and efficient cloud migrations
- Experience managing Distributed File System (DFS) namespaces
- Experience with systems engineering life cycle methodologies, including requirements development, systems design, architecture, integration, testing, sustainment, and life cycle refresh
- Demonstrated knowledge of storage systems architecture, life cycle engineering, and infrastructure modernization principles
- Familiarity with model-based or traditional systems engineering disciplines, architecture frameworks, and engineering documentation practices
- Experience administering enterprise storage systems from multiple vendors to include, but not limited to, Dell EMC and Quantum
- Install, configure, and administer Rubrik server and client software
- Schedule and monitor backup policies
- Generate backup status reports as required
- Administer Cisco Brocade fiber channel switch fabrics
- Configure single initiator zone sets and monitor switch utilization and performance
- Create and secure SMB file shares
- Coordinate with server administrators to create, secure, and mount NFS exports
- Develop and implement Disaster Recovery and Continuity of Operations plans in accordance with customer requirements
- Install, configure, maintain, and administer Linux and Windows servers in support of storage operations such as Rubrik, Media, DSM and Master servers
- Build capacity management dashboards that improve visibility into enterprise storage use, health, resilience, and provide ongoing resources for planning for enterprise infrastructure life cycle replacement
- Configure Rubrik policies
- Troubleshoot and resolve backup job failures
- Coordinate with vCenter administrators to provision Storage Area Network (SAN) resources to VMWare ESX cluster datastores as required
- Configure and manage volume snapshots
- Assist customers with point-in-time file restores
- Schedule and monitor volume replication for disaster recovery
- Monitor health and availability of infrastructure applications and systems
- Work with vendors to troubleshoot and resolve hardware and software failures
- Coordinate with Change Management to deconflict and schedule hardware maintenance activities, system and firmware updates, and other configuration changes
- Execute system changes during scheduled maintenance windows
- Monitor and evaluate system performance and capacity trends
- Resolve tier 2 and tier 3 service requests
- Identify opportunities to automate operations
- Develop automated solutions that take advantage of Dell and NetApp system APIs
- Seek opportunities for continuous improvement to support effective and efficient operations
- Work with Cloud Storage solutions as needed for Cloud applications
- Work independently with minimal supervision
- Mentor junior team members
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