Storage Systems Engineer**
Company: Leidos Inc
Location: Bethesda
Posted on: January 21, 2023
Job Description:
Description Job Description:ATTENTION!!Qualified candidates with
critical skills may be eligible for a one time Sign-on Bonus up to
$15k depending upon the skill level and requirements per
requisition. Please contact Stephanie Lovett, Principal Recruiter,
for more details @ stephanie.a.lovett@leidos.com**At Leidos, we
deliver innovative solutions through the efforts of our diverse and
talented people who are dedicated to our customers' success. We
empower our teams, contribute to our communities, and operate
sustainable practices. Everything we do is built on a commitment to
do the right thing for our customers, our people, and our
community. Our Mission, Vision, and Values guide the way we do
business. Employees enjoy career enrichment opportunities available
through mobility and development and experience rewarding
relationships with supportive supervisors and talented colleagues
and customers. Your most important work is ahead.If this sounds
like the kind of environment where you can thrive, keep
reading!Leidos is looking to fill a Storage Engineer position
within the Analysis Solutions Division (ASD) to support the
National Media Exploitation Center (NMEC). This role requires
technical expertise in storage engineering, system administration,
and operations. This role is responsible for optimizing the
configuration of the enterprise storage infrastructure to maximize
availability, performance, and capacity. This role participates in
the lifecycle process of purchasing, installing, maintaining, and
replacing storage devices across on-premise and cloud IT
environments. This role collects and evaluates metrics to optimize
storage operations. This individual identifies risks, performs
assessments, and analyzes risk mitigation strategies. Finally, this
individual is responsible for developing and maintaining system
documentation and procedures in accordance with customer
requirements. The Customer utilizes an Agile Framework to plan and
successfully complete all initiatives. The work location is in
Bethesda at the Intelligence Community Campus.Primary
Responsibilities
- Install, configure, and administer enterprise storage systems
from multiple vendors to include, but not limited to, Dell EMC and
Quantum
- Install, configure, and administer Rubrik server and client
software. Schedule and monitor backup policies. Generate backup
status reports as required
- Administer Cisco Brocade fibre channel switch fabrics.
Configure single initiator zone sets and monitor switch utilization
and performance
- Create and secure SMB file shares
- Coordinate with server administrators to create, secure, and
mount NFS exports
- Develop and implement Disaster Recovery and Continuity of
Operations plans in accordance with customer requirements
- Install, configure, maintain, and administer Linux and Windows
servers in support of storage operations such as Rubrik, Media, DSM
and Master servers
- Build capacity management dashboards that improve visibility
into enterprise storage use, health, resilience, and provide
ongoing resources for planning for enterprise infrastructure
lifecycle replacement
- Configure Rubrik policies. Troubleshoot and resolve backup job
failures
- Coordinate with vCenter administrators to provision Storage
Area Network (SAN) resources to VMWare ESX cluster datastores as
required
- Configure and manage volume snapshots. Assist customers with
point-in-time file restores
- Schedule and monitor volume replication for disaster
recovery
- Monitor health and availability of infrastructure applications
and systems
- Work with vendors to troubleshoot and resolve hardware and
software failures
- Coordinate with Change Management to deconflict and schedule
hardware maintenance activities, system and firmware updates, and
other configuration changes
- Execute system changes during scheduled maintenance
windows
- Monitor and evaluate system performance and capacity
trends
- Resolve tier 2 and tier 3 service requests
- Identify opportunities to automate operations. Develop
automated solutions that take advantage of Dell and NetApp system
APIs
- Seek opportunities for continuous improvement to support
effective and efficient operations
- Work with Cloud Storage solutions as needed for Cloud
applications
- Work independently with minimal supervision
- Mentor junior team membersBasic Qualifications
- Requires a bachelor's degree and 12+ years of relevant
experience, additional years of experience may be considered in
lieu of a degree
- Experience supervising others
- Extensive experience administering enterprise-level data
storage systems (Dell Storage Center, Dell Compellent, NetApp, and
Data Domain preferred) with a demonstrated understanding of the
following services and technologies
- SAN administration including provisioning of LUNs, managing
fibre channel zoning, and mapping storage to servers
- NAS administration including NFS and SMB file sharing
- Integration with VMWare ESX Server
- Data migration strategies
- Snapshots
- Volume replication
- Managing file and share permissions in an Active Directory
environment
- Storage monitoring and performance tuning
- Understanding of Cloud storage management
- Extensive experience managing and administering Veritas
Rubrik
- Experience with scripting technologies such as PowerShell
- Working knowledge of Unix or Linux based operating systems
- Working knowledge of Distributed File System (DFS)
- Excellent communication skills
- Ability to mentor junior team members
- Ability to complete complex projects with minimal
direction
- Experience working independently to support a 24/7/365 customer
environment
- Experience contributing to deliverables and meeting performance
metrics
- Experience coordinating with senior management and
customers
- Candidate must, at a minimum, meet DoD 8570.11- IAT Level II
certification requirements (currently Security+ CE, CCNA-Security,
GSEC, or SSCP along with an appropriate computing environment (CE)
certification)Clearance
- TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph required
- US Citizenship is required due to the nature of the government
contracts we support.Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Disaster Recovery and COOP storage backup and
recovery within and across the data centers and the Cloud
- Ability to analyze cloud migration approaches to support
customer decision making for effective and efficient cloud
migrations
- Experience managing Distributed File System (DFS)
namespaces#NMECDTPPay Range:Pay Range $118,300.00 - $182,000.00 -
$245,700.00The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general
guideline onlyand not a guarantee of compensation or salary.
Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but
are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education,
experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal
equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement
(if any), or other law.
Keywords: Leidos Inc, Bethesda , Storage Systems Engineer**, Other , Bethesda, Maryland
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