STORAGE ENGINEER (ACTIVE TOP SECRET CLEARANCE REQUIRED)

NorthHill Technology Resources has a need for a

Storage Engineer

to support a Federal Program in

Springfield, VA .

This is a

direct-hire role

with our client, a fast-growing Federal Integrator.

Excellent compensation, benefits and company culture.

Due to the nature of the work, US Citizenship and

an active Top Secret Clearance is required.

Will sponsor for CI Polygraph.

STORAGE ENGINEER

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

Required Qualifications and Skills

BS degree and 5+ 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