Sr. Technical Consultant/Storage

Fuse Eng; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Fuse Eng is seeking a Sr. Technical Consultant focused on storage and backup architectures to design, deploy, and optimize complex storage environments for Federal projects. You will lead engineering efforts, assess technologies, and drive performance tuning while maintaining security standards.

You will collaborate with engineers and architects across data centers, implement high-availability solutions, and ensure compliant configurations and on-call support as needed.

Qualifications

• Top Secret SCI w/ Maryland Polygraph required.

Responsibilities

• 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 evaluation, deployment, management, and integration of new technologies in alignment with other engineers
• Provide incident support and participate in on-call rotation during off-hours and weekends
• Create and maintain documentation: diagrams, run books, and other technical engineering documents
• Demonstrate initiative to optimize systems and processes
• Oversee installation of new storage hardware and software
• Oversee updates to hardware, operating systems, and software
• Ensure systems are monitored and capacity/performance statistics reviewed
• Keep abreast of developments to assist Federal staff in future direction of storage and backup technology

Skills

Storage concepts

SAN/NAS

Networking protocols

High availability

Security compliance

Team collaboration

Tools

NetApp

Veritas NetBackup

Cohesity

Rubrik

CommVault

Nutanix

VMware VCF

OpenStack

Job description

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Responsibilities

• 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

Requirements

Top Secret SCI w/ Maryland Polygraph Required

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.)
• CompTIA Security+ or similar certification for IAT Level II DoD 8570 compliance
• Proficient written and oral communication skills
• Strong collaborative attitude and ability to work in a team environment