SUMMARY

E-INFOSOL LLC is seeking a highly motivated Senior Systems Engineer (Storage) to be a full-time employee in Pocatello, ID or Clarksburg, WV to join our innovative and customer solutions focused team.

JOB DESCRIPTION

The Senior Systems Engineer (Storage) 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), Tape, local disk, Fibre Channel, iSCSI, etc.

• Design, implement, and provide ongoing support of the Storage Infrastructure.
• Serve as the expert matter expert (SME) for all Storage environments.
• Create and maintain storage infrastructure for both bare-metal and virtual machines with the appropriate SAN, network, or local storage configurations, using both OEM and third-party tools that include virtual storage tools and services.
• Evaluate, improve, and maintain the information security throughout the storage infrastructure.
• Monitor and correct storage issues and create recovery processes for hardware for failures and performance bottlenecks and configure alerts for proactive response times.
• Install, configure, test, and maintain system management tools, SAN infrastructure and server plugins with the latest hardware and software patch and firmware versions.
• Proactively ensure the highest levels of systems and infrastructure availability to include verification of the replication of data, fail over copies, redundant data sets.
• Monitor and test application performance for potential bottlenecks, identify possible solutions, and work with developers to implement those fixes
• Maintain security, backup, and redundancy strategies
• Write and maintain custom scripts to increase system efficiency and lower the human intervention time on any tasks, such as automated provisioning storage with Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).
• Participate in the design of information and operational support systems
• Provide 4th level support
• Shall liaise with vendors and other IT personnel for problem resolution
• Ensure technical documentation exists for all systems and is kept up to date to include inventory and patch levels of all systems to include hostnames, property numbers, IP addresses, enclave, number of cores, number of processors, admin passwords, certificates, and service accounts on a monthly interval.
• Integrate systems with Windows and Linux as it applies to core service dependencies.
• Engineer and implement solutions for multi factor authentication with standardized software and hardware.
• Document system configurations to include passwords, access controls, version number, revision numbers, patch levels, and inventory to include hostnames, TCP/IP addresses, number of processors, and number of cores, memory, and license keys.
• Continually transition knowledge to the Government staff through training and assistance on how to use the technology using industry best practices.
• Provide real-time reporting of storage provisioned and utilized resources to include performance metrics for disk space consumption, storage availability, performance, and trends.

QUALIFICATION

• Active Top-Secret clearance
• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field
• 10 years of storage related experience

REQUIRED SKILLS

• 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, WesternDigital Intelliflash, Netapp, EMC VNX, Isilon, Hitachi Arrays and Hitachi Command Suite

• Design, implement, and provide ongoing support of the Storage Infrastructure.
• Serve as the expert matter expert (SME) for all Storage environments.
• Create and maintain storage infrastructure for both bare-metal and virtual machines with the appropriate SAN, network, or local storage configurations, using both OEM and third-party tools that include virtual storage tools and services.
• Evaluate, improve, and maintain the information security throughout the storage infrastructure.
• Monitor and correct storage issues and create recovery processes for hardware for failures and performance bottlenecks and configure alerts for proactive response times.
• Install, configure, test, and maintain system management tools, SAN infrastructure and server plugins with the latest hardware and software patch and firmware versions.
• Proactively ensure the highest levels of systems and infrastructure availability to include verification of the replication of data, fail over copies, redundant data sets.
• Monitor and test application performance for potential bottlenecks, identify possible solutions, and work with developers to implement those fixes
• Maintain security, backup, and redundancy strategies
• Write and maintain custom scripts to increase system efficiency and lower the human intervention time on any tasks, such as automated provisioning storage with Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).
• Participate in the design of information and operational support systems
• Provide 4th level support
• Shall liaise with vendors and other IT personnel for problem resolution
• Ensure technical documentation exists for all systems and is kept up to date to include inventory and patch levels of all systems to include hostnames, property numbers, IP addresses, enclave, number of cores, number of processors, admin passwords, certificates, and service accounts on a monthly interval.
• Integrate systems with Windows and Linux as it applies to core service dependencies.
• Engineer and implement solutions for multi factor authentication with standardized software and hardware.
• Document system configurations to include passwords, access controls, version number, revision numbers, patch levels, and inventory to include hostnames, TCP/IP addresses, number of processors, and number of cores, memory, and license keys.
• Continually transition knowledge to the Government staff through training and assistance on how to use the technology using industry best practices.
• Provide real-time reporting of storage provisioned and utilized resources to include performance metrics for disk space consumption, storage availability, performance, and trends