Storage Engineer

Type of Requisition

Regular

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess

Top Secret/SCI

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain

Top Secret SCI + Polygraph

Job Family

Network Engineering

Job Qualifications

• Skills: Capacity Planning, iSCSI SAN, Network-Attached Storage (NAS)
• Certifications: Secuirty+ – CompTIA
• Experience: 5+ years of related experience
• US Citizenship
  
  Required:
  
  Yes

Job Description

Transform technology into opportunity as a Storage Engineer with GDIT. A career in enterprise IT means connecting and enhancing the systems that matter most. At GDIT you’ll be at the forefront of innovation and play a meaningful part in improving how agencies operate.

At GDIT, people are our differentiator. As a Storage Engineer you will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. Our work depends on TS/SCI Cleared Storage Engineer joining our team to support our intelligence customer in Arnold, MO or Springfield, VA.

HOW A STORAGE ENGINEER WILL MAKE AN IMPACT Responsibilities and Duties

• 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.
• Incident support and participation in on‑call rotation during off hours and weekends.
• Create and maintain documentation: logical/physical diagrams, run books and other technical engineering documents.
• Consistently 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.

WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED

Required Qualifications and Skills

• BS degree and 5+ years of related experience; or equivalent combination.
• Hands‑on engineering experience with Net App and other storage technologies and concepts.
• Experience with SAN, NAS and iSCSI storage implementations.
• Experience with capacity planning and sizing storage and backup environments.
• Experience in performance tuning and optimizing storage and backup environments.
• Experience with data center migrations and storage replication technologies.
• Senior‑level experience with 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 a storage environment.
• 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.
• Understanding of security best practices, federal hardening requirements (FISMA, STIG, etc.).
• CompTIA Security+ or similar for IAT Level II DoD 8570 certification.

• Proficient written and oral communication skills.
• Strong collaborative attitude and ability to work in a team environment.
• Ability to take direction.

Desired Qualifications and Skills

• Net App Certification.
• Power Shell/Python scripting experience.
• Experience leveraging scripts to audit and enforce configuration standards.
• Amazon Web Services / C2S experience.

Location:

On Customer Site
US Citizenship

Required:

Yes

GDIT IS YOUR PLACE

401K with company match
Comprehensive health and wellness packages
Internal mobility team dedicated to helping you own your career
Professional growth opportunities including paid education and certifications
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