Cloud and Storage Engineer

Cgsfederal; Baltimore (MD); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, Dental, Vision insurance

Life Insurance

401k

Job summary

Contact Government Services, LLC is seeking a Cloud and Storage Engineer to design and implement a comprehensive SAN architecture for a large EMC-based storage environment supporting a federal agency.

The role requires substantial Dell EMC product experience, enterprise storage design skills, and the ability to produce standards, documentation, and cost models while ensuring 24/7/365 uptime in a multi-site setup.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in a relevant discipline.
• Extensive hands-on experience with Dell EMC SAN products and backups.
• Experience designing enterprise SAN architectures for large, multi-site environments.

Responsibilities

• Develops and implements SAN architecture for EMC-based infrastructure.
• Addresses performance, capacity, replication, DR, backup storage and security.
• Defines strategic direction for SAN and backup environments.
• Designs enterprise storage requirements and deploys solutions.
• Performs capacity planning, utilization reporting, and documentation.

Skills

SAN architecture

Dell EMC OneFS

MDS SAN switches

Storage arrays Unity

RecoverPoint

Education

Bachelor’s in computer science or related

8+ years experience acceptable in lieu of degree

Tools

Dell EMC Unity

Isilon

VNS

Data Domain

OneFS

RecoverPoint

Job description

Cloud and Storage Engineer

Employment Type: Full-Time, Experienced

Department: Information technology

CGS is seeking 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 be able to 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.
• Considers 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
• 401k
• Flexible Spending Account (Health, Dependent Care, and Commuter)
• Paid Time Off and Observance of State/Federal Holidays

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