Information Technology Senior Consultant 5-BP-470

TO BE CONSIDERED FOR THIS POSITION YOU MUST HAVE AN ACTIVE TS/SCI W/ FULL SCOPE POLYGRAPH SECURITY CLEARANCE (U.S. CITIZENSHIP REQUIRED)


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 Provide incident support and participate in on-call rotation during off-hours and weekends Create and maintain documentation: logical/physical diagrams run books and other technical engineering documents Demonstrate initiative and commitment to optimizing systems and processes Oversee the installation of new storage hardware and software according to standard operating procedures Oversee updates to hardware operating systems and software as needed to provide required functionality and security Ensure systems are monitored and statistics relevant to capacity performance utilization etc. are collected and regularly reviewed Keep abreast of current developments in storage and backup technology to assist Federal staff in assessing the future direction of storage and backup technology
Benefits to working in this role: opportunity to work on critical high-impact projects that contribute to national security A high-growth environment with numerous opportunities for professional growth A collaborative team environment that values innovation and efficiency
Hands on NetApp experience a MUST
Hands-on engineering experience with NetApp and other storage technologies and concepts (Storage Area Network - SAN & Network Attached Storage - NAS) Must have knowledge and understanding of protocols such as S3 CIFS NFS iSCI and Fiber Channel Block Storage (SAN) Experience with capacity planning and sizing storage and backup environments (to include Veritas NetBackup Cohesity Rubrik & CommVault Experience in performance tuning and optimizing storage and backup environments Experience with data center migrations and storage replication technologies Senior-level experience with the 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 environments 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..
Experience connecting storage arrays to Hypervisor Technologies (NUTANIX VMWARE VCF OpenStack). Understanding of security best practices and federal hardening requirements (FISMA STIG etc.)