System Engineer

Enterprise Solutions and Management (ESM) is a rapidly growing government contractor that provides strategic IT services that meet mission needs for Defense and Federal customers. We are hiring a System Engineer to support an enterprise-level program within a federal environment.

The System Engineer will be responsible for provisioning, configuring, operating, and maintaining on-premises and cloud infrastructure, with a focus on enterprise storage, availability, backup, and disaster recovery. Provide technical support and hands-on expertise for planning, implementation, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement of cloud and storage environments while ensuring compliance with organizational and regulatory requirements. Monitor and optimize system performance, capacity, backups, data restoration, and disaster recovery capabilities;

coordinate and document DR failovers; and maintain high availability of critical applications and systems. Design, integrate, and manage storage arrays, fiber switches, file-sharing technologies, and related components. Conduct preventative maintenance, storage analysis, capacity and performance planning, and advanced troubleshooting. Develop and maintain technical documentation, policies, procedures, test plans, and reports, while researching emerging technologies and recommending enhancements to improve efficiency, reliability, and overall infrastructure performance.

• Knowledge of enterprise cloud and on-premises infrastructure, including storage systems, backup solutions, disaster recovery, operating systems, and related technologies.
• Skills in storage administration and infrastructure management, including storage arrays, fiber switches, file-sharing technologies, capacity planning, and performance optimization.
• Ability to design, implement, monitor, and troubleshoot complex infrastructure environments to ensure high availability, reliability, and performance.
• Knowledge of backup, data restoration, and disaster recovery principles, including planning, testing, executing, and documenting DR failovers.
• Skill in developing technical documentation, policies, procedures, test plans, and reports while ensuring compliance with organizational standards and regulatory requirements.
• Ability to research emerging technologies, identify infrastructure improvements, and communicate complex technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.

• Be a positive, self-motivated, and proactive person with the ability to adapt to change and tolerate stressful situations
• Candidate must communicate effectively with team members, team lead, management, and government customers
• Must have the ability and desire to research and develop creative solutions to unique problems with minimal supervision

• Five (5) years of overall professional experience in the engineering field. This includes evaluating, manufacturing, and integrating enterprise-level storage and backup software technologies.
• Three (3) years of hands-on experience managing hybrid storage infrastructure (Azure cloud and/or Amazon Web Services).
• Two (2) years hands-on experience with enterprise SAN (Storage Area Network) management to include capabilities and technologies such as:
  Fiber Channel zoning, iSCSI, 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). Hands-on experience with enterprise hierarchical storage system management; operation of enterprise backup/restore services, using…