Storage Engineer - teKnoluxion
Springfield, VA 22150
About the Job
Location: Springfield, VA/Arnold, MO
Security Clearance Required: Active TS (SCI eligibility) clearance and eligibility to obtain a CI poly is required upon application for initial consideration **This position is not open for any clearance upgrades or sponsorship.**
Certification Required: CompTIA Security+ or similar for IAT Level II DoD 8570 certification
teKnoluxion provides the Defense and Intelligence Communities technical experts in the fields of Software & Systems Engineering, Enterprise Operations, and Cloud Services Management & Consulting. Our goal is not to simply support efforts, but to ignite a technology revolution, bridging the growing technology gap between the Government and commercial space.
Are you ready to test your abilities as a Storage Engineer and team member in a sophisticated enterprise exploitation environment? Would you like to make an immediate and direct impact in your job? Join a dedicated team supporting the UDS contract at NGA.
Responsibilities:What you get to do every day:
- 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
Security Clearance Required: Active TS (SCI eligibility) clearance and eligibility to obtain a CI poly is required upon application for initial consideration **This position is not open for any clearance upgrades or sponsorship.**
Certification Required: CompTIA Security+ or similar for IAT Level II DoD 8570 certification
Education/Experience:
- Requires Bachelor's Degree in Computer Programming, Science, Engineering or a related technical discipline, or the equivalent combination of education, technical training, or work/military experience
- 5+ years of experience
Required Skills:
- 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.)
- Proficient written and oral communication skills
- Strong collaborative attitude and ability to work in a team environment
- Ability to take direction
What is ideal?
- NetApp Certification
- PowerShell/Python scripting experience
- Experience leveraging scripts to audit and enforce configuration standards
- Amazon Web Services / C2S experience
- Experience in technical operations at DOD agencies, particularly NGA and DIA
- Recognizing great achievements do not go unnoticed by teKnoluxion through service anniversaries, spot awards, and employee referral bonuses
- You’ll join a growing organization of passionate, top-shelf, IT engineering professionals with extensive experience in actively developing the technology revolution in the Intelligence community
- Highlights of our benefits include Health/Dental/Vision, 401(k) match and potential Profit Sharing, Universal Leave, STD/LTD/Life Insurance/Voluntary Life Insurance, Stipends, Referral Bonuses, and more!
- Compensation is unique to each candidate and compensation packages are based on education, experience, and other requirements.