Senior Storage Engineer

Senior Storage Engineer

Location
:
Arnold, MO (On Customer Site)
Clearance
: TS/SCI
Citizenship
: US Citizenship Required

Whether running countries, corporations, or courtrooms, our clients bear the responsibility for shaping the lives of millions. At Intellectix, we are on a mission to empower them with innovative technical solutions and drive transformational change. As a Senior Storage Engineer
, you'll be the cornerstone of this mission, ensuring the security of crucial data, optimizing IT infrastructure, and simplifying business processes through cutting-edge software systems. Because at Intellectix, it's not what we do, it's why we do it.

Responsibilities & Duties
:

• Design, architect, configure, deploy, upgrade, and support various storage and backup platforms and associated management tools.
• Diagnose and troubleshoot storage systems and other related technologies.
• Adhere to engineering and architecture standards and participate in technical review meetings as required.
• Participate 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.
• Create and maintain documentation: logical/physical diagrams, run books, and other technical engineering documents.
• Consistently demonstrate initiative and commitment to optimizing systems and processes.
• Oversee the installation of new storage hardware and software according to standard operating procedures.
• Oversee the updates to hardware, operating systems, and software as needed to provide required functionality and security.
• Ensure systems are monitored, and statistics relevant to capacity, performance, utilization, etc. are collected and regularly reviewed.
• Keep abreast of current developments in storage and backup technology to assist Intellectix staff in assessing the future direction of storage and backup technology.

Qualifications
:

Required
:

• Bachelor's degree and 8+ years of related experience, or equivalent combination.
• Hands-on engineering experience with Net App 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 a 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.).
• CompTIA Security+ or similar for IAT Level II DoD 8570 certification.
• Proficient written and oral communication skills.
• Strong collaborative attitude and ability to work in a team environment.
• Ability to take direction.

Desired
:

• Net App Certification.
• Power Shell/Python scripting experience.
• Experience leveraging scripts to audit and enforce configuration standards.
• Amazon Web Services / C2S experience.

Join Intellectix to be part of a dynamic team that thrives on tempo, teamwork, and technical excellence. Your skills and expertise will contribute to creating a safer and smarter tomorrow.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.