What are the responsibilities and job description for the Storage Engineer III position at Edgewater Federal Solutions, Inc.?
Overview
Edgewater Federal Solutions is currently seeking a Principal Storage Engineer III. In this Storage Administration role, you will be responsible for design, deployment, testing, certification, patching, addressing interoperability issues, not only of the base storage system, but for all features, components, and application dependencies - to include Storage Area Network (SAN), Network Attached Storage (NAS), local disk, Fiber Channel, iSCSI, etc. This position requires an active Top Secret clearance. We are hiring in Pocatello, Idaho, Clarksburg, WV or in Huntsville, AL
Responsibilities
- Supporting highly available enterprise grade storage arrays and storage networking equipment.
- NAS/file storage protocols such as SMB/CIFS, NFS v3 and v4.
- ISCSI and/or Fiber Channel Fabric connections to switches and arrays.
- Functional knowledge and experience with Windows Server operating system and Active Directory/LDAP/DNS/NTP/Kerberos - specifically how these affect network file system storage access in Windows.
- Windows NTFS security settings, Windows ACLs, VSS snapshots.
- POSIX OS ACLs/mode-bits as it pertains to file system permissions.
- Managing Windows Distributed File System (DFS) for SMB HA.
- Experience with file-based data migrations utilizing applications like Robocopy and Rsync.
- Methodical approach to change execution and implementation to avoid risk and downtime in an enterprise environment.
- Understanding of storage concepts like RAID, hard disk technology, disk/device tiering (HSM), disk cache, compression, data-deduplication, replication, snapshots, and host multipathing.
- Understanding of block, file, and object-based storage as well as their appropriate use cases.
- Familiarity with virtualization, VMFS, vVols, specifically VMware VCenter/vSphere/vSAN as it pertains to thin provisioning storage and data reduction techniques.
- Experience with any of the following is a plus: Cohesity, Pure Storage FlashArray or FlashBlade, DellEMC, object protocols (S3), Dell Compellent, Western Digital Intelliflash, NetApp, EMC VNX, Isilon, Hitachi Arrays and Hitachi Command Suite.
Qualifications
- 10 years of storage related experience.
- Must have active Top-Secret Clearance and be willing to sit for a Poly once hired.
- Advanced mainstream storage vendor certification preferred.
- Bachelor’s degree preferred but not required.
- Experience managing and maintaining mainframe storage systems using the FICON (Fiber Channel Connection) protocol is highly preferred.
About Us:
Edgewater Federal Solutions is a privately held government contracting firm located in Frederick, MD. The company was founded in 2002 with the vision of being highly recognized and admired for supporting customer missions through employee empowerment, exceptional services, and timely delivery. Edgewater Federal Solutions is ISO 9001, 20000-1, 270001 certified, appraised at CMMI Level 3 Maturity for Development and Services, and has been named in the Top Workplaces in the Greater Washington Area Small Companies for 2018 through 2024.
It has been and continues to be the policy of Edgewater Federal Solutions to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, and/or other status protected by applicable law.
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