Storage Administrator - Springfield, United States - TekSynap

TekSynap
TekSynap
Verified Company
Springfield, United States

1 month ago

Mark Lane

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Description

Responsibilities & Qualifications:

RESPONSIBILITIES
The Storage Administrator is expected to be able to:
Responsible for effective provisioning, operation, installation/configuration and maintenance of systems hardware/software/related infrastructure. Provide technical support, guidance and hands-on delivery in the planning, implementation and ongoing operations. The Systems Engineer shall participate in technical research and development to enable continuing innovation within the infrastructure. Ensure that system hardware, operating systems, software systems, and related procedures adhere to organizational values and regulatory requirements. The Systems Engineer shall document specifications, project plans, configurations, test plans and results. Depicts complex ideas, issues and designs to varied audiences; communicates project objectives, scope and status to project teams.

Duties may include, but are not limited to the following:

  • Provide administrative and technical support for current and future storage technologies used by NGA.
  • Create, test, implement, and remove backup policies as required for various NGA systems including, but not limited to Windows, UNIX, and Linux operating systems.
  • Install, configure, and remove physical and virtual appliances and servers used for NGA backup operations.
  • Perform file and system level restoration using provided backup tools as required.
  • Utilize Service Now to document restore requests
  • Provide expert knowledge on IT storage vendors in use by

NGA:

Hitachi, NetApp, Dell EMC, Dell, HPE, Brocade, and Cloud agnostic 3rd party technologies such as Azure Storage and AWS Storage.


  • Provide expert knowledge in NGA's current storage monitoring solutions including, but not limited to Brocade Network Advisor, Brocade SANnav, NetApp OnCommand Unified Manager, NetApp IQ, NetApp OnCommand Insight, EMC Unisphere Central, HP 3PAR Management Server, and Hitachi Command Suite.
  • Daily operations for storage administration include:
  • Storage Array administration
  • LUN / Volume administration
  • Fiber switch administration
  • Storage File Sharing
  • Security Implementation
  • Data Migrations
  • Pilot Projects / Proof of Concept
  • Cloud Tier support and administration
  • Other duties as assigned
  • Provide oncall Support to NGA Enterprise Storage mission 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365/366 days per year, including weekends and holidays is required as part of a weekly rotating schedule. This support includes low and high side environments. In addition, this support requires the Contractor to respond to after hour callback support within 2hours of notification. The Contractors shall follow DoD/NGA, Information Operations policies and processes for information assurance.
  • Other duties and responsibilities as detailed in performance work statement.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
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Minimum Top Secret
Clearance with CI poly
:


  • Must have at least five (5) years of experience working with NGA IT systems
  • Five (5) years of overall professional experience in the engineering field.
  • Two (2) years handson experience with enterprise SAN (Storage Area Network) management to include capabilities and technologies such as: Fiber Channel zoning, FCoE (Fiber Channel over Ethernet) unified fabric, HBA/CNA (Host Bus Adapter/Converged Network Adapter), storage controllers, and LUN (Logical Unit Number), RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks), and file sharing / NAS (Network Addressable Storage).
  • Five (5) years handson experience with enterprise hierarchical storage system management; operation of enterprise backup/restore services, using software such as Veritas NetBackup.
  • Two (2) years handson experience with Azure Recovery Services (ARS).
  • Security/Certification Requirements:
  • Sensitivity Level: IT-I
  • IA Level: IAT-II (CCNA-Security, CySA+, GICSP, GSEC, Security+ CE, CND, SSCP)
  • Computing Environment (any of): Dell EMC Information Storage and Management (DECA-ISM), Hitachi Vantara Qualified Professional
  • Storage Administration, NetApp Certified Data
Administrator (NCDA), SNIA Storage Networking Certification Program (SNCP), Veritas
Certified Specialist (VCS), NetBackup Administrator


Overview:
We are seeking a Storage Administrator to join our team supporting our NGA customer in Springfield, VA.


TekSynap is a fast growing high-tech company that understands both the pace of technology today and the need to have a comprehensive well planned information management environment.

"Technology moving at the speed of thought" embodies these principles - the need to nimbly utilize the best that information technology offers to meet the business needs of our Federal Government customers.


We offer our full-time employees a competitive benefits package to include health, dental, vision, 401K, life insurance, short-term and long-term disability plans, vacation time and holidays.

The safety and health of our employees is of the utmost importance. Employees are requ
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