Principal Systems Engineer III (Storage)

Overview

On Site
Full Time

Skills

Testing
Backup
Network-attached Storage (NAS)
SAN
iSCSI
Fiber Channel
Switches
Microsoft Operating Systems
Microsoft Windows Server
Operating Systems
Active Directory
LDAP
Dragon NaturallySpeaking
DNS
NTP
Kerberos
NFS
NTFS
Microsoft Visual SourceSafe
POSIX
File Systems
Management
Microsoft Windows
Distributed File System
SMB
Server Message Block
High Availability
Data Migration
Hierarchical Storage Management
Caching
Data Compression
Data Deduplication
Replication
Use Cases
VMware vSphere
Provisioning
Amazon S3
Dell Compellent
NetApp
EMC VNX
EMC Isilon
Hitachi
Security Clearance
Continuous Integration
Storage
SAP BASIS
Law
FOCUS

Job Details

Job Description

ECS is seeking a Principal Systems Engineer III (Storage) to work in our Pocatell o , ID or Huntsville, AL office .

The Principal Systems Engineer III (Storage) will be responsible for design, deployment, testing, certification, patching, and addressing interoperability issues, not only of the base Storage & Backup system, but for all features, components, and application dependencies. This includes Storage Area Network (SAN), Network Attached Storage (NAS), local disk, Fibre Channel, iSCSI, etc.

Responsibilities:
  • Supporting highly available enterprise grade storage arrays and storage networking equipment.
  • NAS/file storage protocols such as SMB/CIFS, NFS v3 and v4.
  • ISCSI and/or Fiber Channel Fabric connections to switches and arrays.
  • Functional knowledge and experience with Windows Server operating system and Active Directory/LDAP/DNS/NTP/Kerberos - specifically how these affect network file system storage access in Windows.
  • Windows NTFS security settings, Windows ACLs, VSS snapshots.
  • POSIX OS ACLs/mode-bits as it pertains to file system permissions.
  • Managing Windows Distributed File System (DFS) for SMB HA.
  • Experience with file-based data migrations utilizing applications like Robocopy andRsync.
  • Methodical approach to change execution and implementation to avoid risk and downtime in an enterprise environment.
  • Understanding of storage concepts likeRAID, hard disk technology, disk/device tiering (HSM), disk cache, compression, data-deduplication, replication,snapshots, andhost multipathing.
  • Understanding of block, file, and object-based storage as well as their appropriate use cases.
  • Familiarity withvirtualization, VMFS, vVols, specifically VMwareVCenter/vSphere/vSANas it pertains to thin provisioning storage and data reduction techniques.
  • Experience with any of the following is a plus: Cohesity, Pure StorageFlashArrayorFlashBlade, DellEMC, object protocols (S3), Dell Compellent, Western DigitalIntelliflash, NetApp, EMC VNX, Isilon, Hitachi Arrays and Hitachi Command Suite.


Required Skills

  • Must have a current Top-Secret Clearance with the capability of obtaining SCI / CI-Poly if needed to meet contract requirements.
  • 10+ years of storage related experience.
  • Advanced mainstream storage vendor certification.


Desired Skills

  • Bachelor's degree.
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