Defense Engineering Inc. (DEi) is seeking a Senior Storage Engineer to support our long-term contract located at the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) at Fort Belvoir, VA
The I3TS program provides enterprise-wide IT support to enable DTRA’s Information Management & Technology Directorate (ITD) to consolidate, modernize, and continuously innovate the delivery of IT services and mission capabilities to DTRA’s internal and external mission partners operating in CONUS and OCONUS locations.
DEi is a leading small IT business leader in the Washington D.C. Metropolitan Area. DEi combines experience and innovative ideas to provide our clients with the right solution with the right people at the right time. We are a proven IT services and solutions provider for full-life-lifecycle engineering of network, storage, cyber security, communication and policy compliance needs. We focus on delivering IT solutions to meet complex technological and business challenges within mission-critical enterprises.
In addition to the traditional full-time employee benefits package (health, dental, vision, 401K, life insurance, short-term and long-term disability plans, vacation time and holidays, DEi also offers Education and professional Certification Reimbursement, and Gym Membership reimbursement benefits.
Job Category: Information Technology – Senior Storage Engineer
Salary: Negotiable
Location: Fort Belvoir, VA US
Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:
Top Secret / SCI Eligible
US Citizenship
Certifications (Baseline)
DoD 8140/8570 Baseline Certification: Must hold a minimum of one (1) active IAT Level II certification:
- CompTIA Security+ CE
- CompTIA CySA+
- GIAC Global Industrial Cyber Security Professional (GICSP)
- GIAC Security Essentials (GSEC)
- ISC² Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP)
Certifications (Active Computing Environment (ACE)
Must hold an appropriate Computing Environment (CE) certification matching the contract platform. To satisfy this requirement, candidate must possess at least one (1) active certification or verified equivalent in the following environments:
- Storage/Backup:
- Dell Unity (e.g., Dell ISM), NetApp NCDA, or generic equivalent (such as CompTIA Server+ or Cloud+).
- Veritas NetBackup
- Note: Final certification alignment is subject to contract approval.
Education / Experience: Bachelor’s degree with 8-12 years of experience or master’s degree with 6-10 years of experience. (specific years of experience and/or certification will be considered in lieu of degree)
Schedule: Full-time
Potential for Teleworking: Situational
Travel: None
Shift: Day Job
Job Description
DEi is seeking a candidate to support large-scale migration and operations on a large, high-profile DoD contract. The I3TS program provides enterprise-wide IT support to enable DTRA’s J6 / Information Management & Technology Directorate (ITD) to consolidate, modernize, and continuously innovate the delivery of IT services and mission capabilities to DTRA’s internal and external mission partners operating in CONUS and OCONUS locations.
The Storage Engineer SME provides senior technical leadership for enterprise storage services. This role architects, implements, and sustains highly available storage platforms supporting mission-critical I3TS workloads across primary, alternate, and regional environments. The engineer drives performance optimization, capacity planning, and resilient backup and recovery strategies to meet recovery objectives, continuity requirements, and operational service levels. This position ensures storage operations align with organizational and federal compliance requirements and coordinates closely with EOC, infrastructure, network, and security teams.
The primary responsibilities will be to:
- Install, configure, and administer enterprise storage systems from multiple vendors to include, but not limited to, Dell EMC, Powerflex 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 fiber 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 members
Required Qualifications
The applicant will have:
- Experience supervising others
- Extensive experience administering enterprise-level data storage systems (Dell Storage Center, Dell Compellent, and Data Domain preferred) with a demonstrated understanding of the following services and technologies
- SAN administration including provisioning of LUNs, managing fiber 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)
- An active Top Secret/SCI clearance is required for this position.
- Due to the nature of the government contracts we support, US Citizenship is required.
To apply for this job email your details to jobs@dei.net