Cloud and Storage Engineer

Contact Government Services, LLC; Chantilly (VA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, Dental, and Vision

Life Insurance

401k

Flexible Spending Account

Paid Time Off

Job summary

Dormont Manufacturing Co is looking for a Cloud and Storage Engineer to lead the development and implementation of a Storage Area Network (SAN) architecture for a significant EMC-based infrastructure. As a key player in our IT department, the selected candidate will design customer storage solutions and ensure the reliability and efficiency of our storage systems.

With an emphasis on innovation, we seek someone who is proficient in Dell EMC products and cloud environments like AWS and Azure. Join us to contribute to government projects with cutting-edge technology while enjoying comprehensive benefits including health insurance, retirement plans, and generous paid time off.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant work experience.
• Eight years of relevant work experience is acceptable in lieu of a degree.
• Significant experience with Dell EMC products.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement SAN architecture for a large EMC infrastructure.
• Define strategic direction for SAN and backup environment.
• Design customer storage solutions into an enterprise system.
• Produce standards for storage configuration and security.
• Troubleshoot SAN infrastructure issues.
• Manage and maintain the SAN infrastructure ensuring uptime.

Skills

Storage Area Network (SAN) architecture

Dell EMC products expertise

Cloud architecture (AWS, Azure)

Disaster recovery

Security management

Education

Bachelor’s in computer science, business, or relevant discipline

Tools

Dell EMC OneFile System (OneFS)

MDS SAN switches

Unity storage arrays

Isilon

Data Domain

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.

CGS brings motivated, highly skilled, and creative people together to solve the government’s most dynamic problems with cutting-edge technology. To carry out our mission, we are seeking candidates who are excited to contribute to government innovation, appreciate collaboration, and can anticipate the needs of others. Here at CGS, we offer an environment in which our employees feel supported, and we encourage professional growth through various learning opportunities.

Skills and attributes for success:

• 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
• 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 their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.