Storage Administrator - Secret Clearance Ft Eisenhower, Georgia

Strategic Business Systems, Inc (SBS); Georgia (VT); On-site; USD 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is looking for a Storage Administrator to enhance their IT infrastructure capabilities. This role involves working on mission-critical intelligence systems at a key location, ensuring optimal performance and reliability of storage solutions. The ideal candidate will possess a strong background in NetApp technologies, disaster recovery, and data protection, alongside excellent communication skills to interface with senior management. Join a diverse team committed to delivering exceptional IT services while adhering to security protocols. This position offers the opportunity to grow as a technical expert and contribute to impactful projects in a collaborative environment.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of relevant experience in IT or related field required.
• Must have DoD Secret clearance and IAT Level II certification.

Responsibilities

• Deploy and coordinate hardware/software solutions for clients.
• Monitor system health and perform timely actions as needed.
• Collaborate with teams to meet aggressive goals and standards.

Skills

NetApp

Cloud Services

Disaster Recovery

Data Protection

Communication Skills

Team Collaboration

Technical Leadership

System Health Checks

Education

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

DoD 8140 IAT Level II Certification

NetApp Certification

Tools

NetApp FAS

ONTAP 9.x

VMware

Cisco UCS

System Manager

OnCommand Unified Manager

Active IQ Unified Manager

Job description

Strategic Business Systems is seeking a Storage Administrator to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals. This is part of a team that ensures the customer's ability to provide mission-critical intelligence and successful use of its information technology (IT) networks worldwide.

This role is onsite at Ft Eisenhower, GA.

Required Security Clearance: Current and active DoD Secret or above.

Required Certifications: Must meet DoD 8570 IAT Level II certification requirements (Security +) AND one NetApp Certification.

Job Requirements:

1. Experienced technology consultant with significant level of hands-on field experience. Deploy post-sales hardware and software solutions with medium level complexity. Coordinate with senior customer representatives and Sales teams in the performance of daily tasks.
2. Solid foundation with NetApp, IT infrastructure, applications, and Cloud services, providing the ability to quickly become a Subject Matter Expert in these areas:
1. Implementation of backup and restore, disaster recovery, storage consolidation, data protection, storage performance, etc.
2. Optimization including upgrades, performance monitoring, and system audit tasks.
3. Follow appropriate escalation guidelines, as required, during customer engagements.
4. Exposure to and understanding of a variety of integrated technologies/concepts in a distributed environment.
5. Comply with all customer security and operational requirements in the performance of tasks.
6. Excellent verbal and written communications skills are essential to interface with mid-to-senior level management and technical teams, architects, systems administrators, and senior operations managers.
7. Ability to work collaboratively with other engineers, consultants, and Project Managers in a team environment to meet aggressive goals, achieve high quality standards, and share best practices.
8. Ability to take lead as technical expert when working with customers’ senior technical representatives to design, architect and implement the best solution to meet and exceed customers’ requirements and expectations.
9. Ability to understand the customers’ business requirements and relate their requirements to technical solutions.
10. Perform system health checks, monitor alerts, and take appropriate and timely actions as required.
11. May require limited off hours work (nights and weekends).

The qualified candidate has experience with many of the following hardware platforms, OS, protocols, technologies, and solutions:

1. NetApp FAS, AFF, and FlexPod Converged Infrastructure solutions.
2. Core experience with ONTAP 9.x.
3. Cabling systems, upgrading ONTAP versions.
4. Storage Protocols/SVM configuration: CIFS, NFS, Object, iSCSI, FC/FCoE.
5. Data Protection: Snapshots, SnapMirror, SnapVault, Fabric Pool.
6. System Manager, OnCommand Unified Manager, Active IQ Unified Manager.
7. Storage Provisioning of Aggrs, Vols, LUNs, RAID knowledge and configuration.
8. Data Migrations: VMs, CIFS, vol moves etc.
9. NFS Export Policies.
10. VMware (thorough knowledge of hypervisor and features).
11. Core networking and switch knowledge ensuring proper configurations with NetApp FAS, AFF, & FlexPod solutions.
12. Cisco UCS configuration and operations.
13. Troubleshooting storage access issues (i.e. CIFS access, lost datastore access, etc.).

Education and Certifications:

1. A Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science or other Information Technology related field and a minimum of 3 - 5 years of relevant experience; OR equivalent combination of education/certifications/training and relevant years of professional work experience required.
2. Requires a current or active DoD Secret clearance.
3. DoD 8140 IAT Level II Certification: CompTIA Security+ CE or equivalent.
4. At least one NetApp certification.

EEO Disclaimer:
SBS is an equal opportunity employer; all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, gender, gender identification, sex, sexual orientation, color, race, creed, national origin, religion, marital status, parental status, citizenship status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, military status, or any other classification protected by federal, state, or local laws.

Accommodations:
If you need an accommodation seeking employment with SBS, please email [e-mail]. Accommodations are made on a case-by-case basis.