Cloud and Storage Engineer

CGS Federal (Contact Government Services); Arlington (WA); On-site; USD 100,949 - 137,002; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, Dental, and Vision

Life Insurance

401(k)

Flexible Spending Account

Paid Time Off

Job summary

A federal IT services company located in Arlington, VA, is seeking a Cloud and Storage Engineer to develop and implement full-scale Storage Area Network (SAN) architecture. The ideal candidate will manage and maintain a geographically dispersed storage infrastructure, ensuring uptime and performance within a fast-paced environment. Significant experience with Dell EMC products and cloud architecture is required. Competitive benefits including health insurance and a 401(k) plan are offered.

Qualifications

• Must have significant experience in Dell EMC products.
• 8 years of relevant work experience may substitute for degree.
• Experience with hybrid cloud architectures desired.

Responsibilities

• Develops and implements full-scale SAN architecture.
• Defines strategic direction for SAN and backup environment.
• Manages and maintains the SAN infrastructure.

Skills

Experience with Dell EMC products

Storage Area Network (SAN) expertise

Cloud architecture (Gov Cloud, AWS, Azure)

Troubleshooting complex infrastructure issues

Education

Bachelor’s in computer science or relevant discipline

Tools

Dell EMC Unity

Dell EMC Isilon

MDS SAN switches

Job description

Cloud and Storage Engineer - Employment Type: Full‑Time, Experienced. Department: Information Technology. CGS seeks a Cloud and Storage Engineer to develop and implement full‑scale Storage Area Network (SAN) architecture for a large EMC‑based SAN infrastructure in support of a large federal agency. The ideal candidate will excel in a fast‑paced environment and successfully produce standards and implementation processes for storage configuration, optimization, replication, and storage security.

Responsibilities

• Develops and implements full scale Storage Area Network (SAN) architecture for a large EMC-based SAN infrastructure in a multi-enterprise, complex, geographically dispersed solution; ranging from single servers to multi‑tier, multi‑platform solutions connected through fiber channel to multiple EMC Storage Arrays with petabytes of storage capacity.
• The SAN architecture considers the following aspects relating to SAN: performance, capacity, replication, disaster recovery, backup disk storage, and backup & recovery.
• Defines and sets a strategic direction for the SAN and backup environment.
• Designs and implements customer storage requirements into an enterprise solution that will be developed, installed, configured, and deployed in the environment.
• Provides overall storage and backup capacity planning, and utilization reporting.
• Produces standards and implementation processes for storage configuration, optimization, replication, virtualization, storage security, and disaster recovery.
• Troubleshoots complex SAN infrastructure issues and works with customers both internal and external to effectively resolve issues.
• Reviews, plans, and participates in executing regularly scheduled maintenances and/or projects on the storage infrastructure.
• Develops technical documentation, tiered storage and storage‑as‑a‑service roadmaps, presentations, and cost models.
• Responsible for managing, maintaining, and developing the SAN infrastructure as part of a team to ensure 24/7/365 uptime.
• Architects and maintains private cloud environment. Professional experience with Gov Cloud (AWS, Azure, etc.) and hybrid cloud architectures desired.
• Performs security related tasks which include, but are not limited to, documentation, vulnerability scan review, assessment support, patch management, and auditing as required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s in computer science, business, or other relevant discipline.
• Eight (8) years of relevant work experience may be substituted for degree requirement.
• Must have significant, direct experience in Dell EMC products such as OneFile System (OneFS), MDS SAN switches, storage arrays (Unity, Isilon, VNS, and Data Domain), and RecoverPoint.

Benefits

• Health, Dental, and Vision
• Life Insurance
• 401(k)
• Flexible Spending Account (Health, Dependent Care, and Commuter)
• Paid Time Off and Observance of State/Federal Holidays

Equal Opportunity Employer

Contact Government Services, LLC is an Equal‑Opportunity Employer. Applicants will be considered without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

Salary: $100,949.33 - $137,002.66 per year.