Cloud and Storage Engineer

Cgsfederal; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, Dental, and Vision

Life Insurance

401k

Flexible Spending Account (Health, Dep

Job summary

CGS is seeking a Cloud and Storage Engineer to design and implement scalable SAN architectures for a large EMC-based SAN infrastructure supporting a federal agency. The role emphasizes performance, replication, backup, disaster recovery, security, and documentation across multi-site environments.

You will develop standards, implement processes, provide capacity planning, and ensure 24/7/365 uptime while collaborating with internal and external customers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a relevant discipline.
• Eight years of relevant experience may substitute for the degree.
• Direct experience with Dell EMC storage products (OneFS, Unity/Isilon, VNS, RecoverPoint) and recovery tooling.

Responsibilities

• Develops and implements full-scale SAN architecture for EMC-based SAN infrastructure.
• Plays a role in performance, replication, disaster recovery, and backup storage planning.
• Defines strategic direction for SAN and backup environments.
• Designs enterprise storage solutions and implements them in complex environments.
• Produces storage capacity planning, utilization reporting, and roadmaps.
• Ensures 24/7/365 uptime as part of a team.
• Maintains technical docs and security-related tasks as required.

Skills

SAN architecture

Storage administration

Troubleshooting SAN issues

Education

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

Tools

Dell EMC OneFS (OneFS)

Dell EMC MDS SAN switches

Dell EMC Unity

Dell EMC Isilon

Dell EMC VNS

Dell 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.