Senior Systems Engineer III (Storage)

E-INFOSOL LLC Pocatello, ID

E-INFOSOL LLC is seeking a highly motivated Senior Systems Engineer III (Storage) to support our Client in Pocatello, ID or Clarksburg, WV.

Job Description

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

Duties and Responsibilities:

Design, implement and provide ongoing support of the Storage Infrastructure.
Serve as the Subject Matter Expert (SME) for all Storage environments.
Create and maintain storage infrastructure for both bare-metal and virtual machines with the appropriate SAN, network, or local storage configurations, using both OEM and third-party tools that include virtual storage tools and services.
Provision/configure required storage for servers.
Evaluate, improve, and maintain the information security throughout the storage infrastructure.
Monitor and correct critical storage issues and create recovery processes for hardware failures and performance bottlenecks and configure alerts for proactive response times.
Install, configure, test and maintain system management tools, SAN and Tape infrastructure and server plugins with the latest hardware and software patch and firmware versions.
Proactively ensure the highest levels of systems and infrastructure availability to include verification of the replication of data, fail over copies, redundant data sets.
Monitor and test application performance for potential bottlenecks, identify possible solutions, and work with developers to implement those fixes
Maintain security, storage, and redundancy strategies
Write and maintain custom scripts to increase system efficiency and lower the human intervention time on any tasks, such as automated provisioning storage with Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).
Participate in the design of information and operational support systems
Provide 4th level support
Liaise with vendors and other IT personnel for problem resolution
Ensure technical documentation exists for all systems and is kept up to date to include inventory and patch levels of all systems to include hostnames, property numbers, IP addresses, enclave, number of cores, number of processors, admin passwords, certificates, and service accounts on a monthly interval.
Integrate systems with Windows and Linux as it applies to core service dependencies.
Engineer and implement solutions for multi factor authentication with the customer's standardized software and hardware.
Document system configurations to include passwords, access controls, version number, and revision numbers, patch levels, and inventory to include hostnames, TCP/IP addresses, number of processors, and number of cores, memory, and license keys.
Continually transition knowledge to the government staff through training and assistance on how to use the technology using industry best practices.
Provide real-time reporting of storage provisioned and utilized resources to include performance metrics for tape and disk space consumption, storage availability, performance and trends.

Requirements:

10+ years of systems engineering and Tivoli Storage Manager experience
Advanced mainstream storage vendor certification preferred
Storage Vendor Certification or SNIA Certified Storage Professional (SCSP)

Education:

Bachelor's Degree (preferred)

Clearance:

Must be US Citizen with an Active Top Secret/ SCI eligibility

About E-INFOSOL:

E-INFOSOL is a Service Disabled and Veteran Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) located in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. We are a premiere IT Security, Cloud and Virtualization provider servicing both federal and state government, and private sector customers. Through strategic partnerships with top industry players such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), VMware, Microsoft and Nutanix, we are able to provide an array of IT products and solutions, combining them with our expertise.

Why E-INFOSOL:

E-INFOSOL has 10 years in the digital world expanding with new clientele and jobs rapidly. E-INFOSOL is constantly aware of, technical changes within IT and wants to ensure future candidates can make a difference with contributing their different skills and knowledge. We offer an array of architectural, engineering, and information technological jobs to a diverse group of candidates. Come join the E-INFOSOL family and be a part of the vast growing culture that contributes to the world.