RQ175997 - Storage Engineer

Transform technology into opportunity as a Storage Engineer with NDSI. A career in enterprise IT means connecting and enhancing the systems that matter most. At NDSI you’ll be at the forefront of innovation and play a meaningful part in improving how agencies operate.

At NDSI, people are our differentiator. As a Storage Engineer you will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. Our work depends on TS/SCI Cleared Storage Engineer joining our team to support our intelligence customer in Arnold, MO or Springfield, VA.

HOW A STORAGE ENGINEER WILL MAKE AN IMPACT
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 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

• Experience leveraging scripts to audit and enforce configuration standards