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 IMPACTResponsibilities 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
NetApp Certification
PowerShell/Python scripting experience
Experience leveraging scripts to audit and enforce configuration standards
Amazon Web Services / C2S experience
Location: On Customer SIte
US Citizenship Required