Storage Management and Administration Security Clearance

Position: Storage Management and Administration with Security Clearance
Responsibilities & Qualifications We are seekin g a Storage M anagement and Administration personnel to perform various activities to support the success of the team in providing quality IT services to NICHD. The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) was established as a component of the National I nstitutes of Health (NIH) in 1962.

The NICHD mission is to lead research and training to understand human development, improve reproductive health, enhance the lives of children and adolescents, and optimize abilities for all. Components of the NICHD have differing environments and needs. Oper ating en vironments include UNIX, Linux, Windows, and MAC. Similarly, software for system operation, management, and application support varies among divisions. REQUIREMENTS :
Experience
* Eight (8) or more years' experience designing backup solution, ensuring backups are completed as scheduled, managing all backup solutions and recovery tools and systems in a virtualized, mission critical environment supporting large storage volumes, and in the deployment of backup strategies for all infrastructure components.
* Hands on experience installing and configuring backup solutions such as Comm Vault.
* Five (5) or more year hands on experience with Dell storage solutions (Isilon NAS, Unity SAN) and three (3) or more years' experience with Cohesity storage solutions or similar hyper-converged solution.
* Five (5) or more years hands on experience with on-premises or Cloud to Cloud backup migration.
* Eight (8) or more years designing, building storage and backup. Eight (8) or more years' experience planning storage projects and assess business implications for each stage .
* Eight (8) or more years' experience supporting, planning, and building infrastructure supporting COOP & DR plans . Education
* Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, or a related field. Experience wit h various storage solutions. Seven (7) years of applicable experience may be substituted for degree requirements. Clearance
* Must be able to successfully obtain Public Trust FUNCTIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES:
* Develop capacity planning strategy to manage business as usual growth that would occur during the migration windows.
* Plan project and manage SAN integration into existing server environment (production, test, and development).
* Engage in performance management, fine-tuning.
* Manage critical incidents via coordination of international teams supporting various storage,
* backup, application and server technologies.
* Create and configure both NFS and SMB shares and relate user permissions.
* Establish storage standards team for the creation of standard system builds and repeatable processes.
* Created/Implement customized disaster recovery procedures.
* Design a backup and recovery strategy, disaster recovery solutions, logical recovery strategies, fault tolerant solutions. ADDITIONAL KNOWLEDGE AREAS PREFERRED:
* Dell Storage Specialist certification or equivalent is preferred.
* Hands - on experience migrating on-prem infrastructure to the Cloud is preferred.
* Prefer skills in the following key areas including strategic thinking, multi-tasking, time management, planning and executing to a defined schedule.
* Experience with various cloud hosting providers is preferred (i.e., AWS, Azure). Overview WORK ENVIRONMENT The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of the job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

* Location:

Bethesda, MD
* Type of environment:
Office
* Noise level:
Low

* Work schedule:

Schedule is day shift Monday - Friday. May be requested to work evenings and weekends to meet program and contract needs
* Amount of travel:
Less than 10% WAGE INFORMATION Target salary range: $120,000 - $170,000 . The salary range displayed is an estimate and will be determined based on several factors, including the individual's combination of education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience,…