Abile Group has an exciting and challenging opportunity for a Storage Engineer on a 10 year contract providing User Facing and Data Center Services supporting an Intelligence Community customer.  All the personnel on the team will work together to support innovative design, engineering, procurement, implementation, operations, sustainment and disposal of user facing and data center information technology (IT) services on multiple networks and security domains, at multiple locations worldwide, to support the IC mission.

The right candidate will possess the below skills and qualifications and be ready to handle all responsibilities independently and professionally.

• Designs, architects, configures, deploys, upgrades and supports various storage and backup platforms and associated management tools.
  
• Diagnoses and troubleshoots storage systems and other related technologies
  
• Adheres to engineering and architecture standards and participate in technical review meetings as required
  
• Participates in the evaluation, deployment, management, and integration of new technologies in alignment with other engineers, architects, and technical service lanes
  
• Incident support and participation in on-call rotation during off hours and weekends
  
• Creates and maintains documentation: logical/physical diagrams, run books and other technical engineering documents
  
• Consistently demonstrates initiative and commitment to optimizing systems and processes
  
• Oversees the Installation of new storage hardware and software according to standard operating procedures
  
• Oversees the updates to hardware, operating systems, and software as needed to provide required functionality and security
  
• Ensures systems are monitored and statistics relevant to capacity, performance, utilization, etc. are collected and regularly reviewed
  
• Keeps abreast of current developments in storage and backup technology to assist Federal staff in assessing the future direction of storage and backup technology

Clearance Required: TS/SCI 

Degree and Years of Experience: BS degree and 5+ years of related experience; or equivalent combination

Required Certifications:

• CompTIA Security+ or similar for IAT Level II DoD 8570 certification

Desired Certifications:

• NetApp Certification

Required Skills:

• Hands on engineering experience with NetApp and other storage technologies and concepts
• Experience with SAN, NAS and iSCSI storage implementations
• Experience with capacity planning and sizing storage and backup environments
• Experience in performance tuning and optimizing storage and backup environments
• Experience with data center migrations and storage replication technologies
• Senior level experience with design, development, implementation and maintenance of large-scale systems, preferably across multiple hardware platforms and data centers
• Strong understanding of high availability concepts with practical experience and implementation of key components in storage environment
• Strong understanding of fundamental hardware concepts:  disk, memory, CPU, NIC, HBA, firmware, RAID, performance concepts (I/O, paging, swapping, system calls), iSCSI, Fiber Channel, Ethernet
• Strong understanding of essential TCP/IP concepts:  TCP, UDP, ICMP, SMTP, SNMP, LDAP, DNS, NTP, etc.
• Understanding of security best practices, federal hardening requirements (FISMA, STIG, etc.)
• Proficient written and oral communication skills
• Strong collaborative attitude and ability to work in a team environment
• Ability to take direction

Desired Skills: 

• PowerShell/Python scripting experience
• Experience leveraging scripts to audit and enforce configuration standards
• Amazon Web Services / C2S experience

Abile Group, Inc. was formed in July 2004 to partner with the Intelligence Community and their Contractors in the areas of Enterprise Analytics & Performance Management, IT & Systems Engineering and Program & Project Management. We have significant experience with the Federal Government and are an EDWOSB dedicated to our employees and clients.  We are looking for high performing employees who enjoy providing advice and guidance along with solutions development and implementation support, crafted by combining industry best practices with the clients’ subject matter experience and Abile’s breadth of expertise. 

Abile Group, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.  Anyone requiring reasonable accommodations should email careers@abilegroup.com with requested details.  A member of the HR team will respond to your request within 2 business days. 

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