Storage Engineer with Security Clearance

Saint Louis, Missouri

teKnoluxion Consulting
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Overview Location: St. Louis, MO/Arnold, MO Security Clearance Required: Active TS (SCI eligibility) clearance and eligibility to obtain a CI poly is required upon application for initial consideration This position is not open for any clearance upgrades or sponsorship. Certification Required: CompTIA Security+ or similar for IAT Level II DoD 8570 certification teKnoluxion provides the Defense and Intelligence Communities technical experts in the fields of Software & Systems Engineering, Enterprise Operations, and Cloud Services Management & Consulting. Our goal is not to simply support efforts, but to ignite a technology revolution, bridging the growing technology gap between the Government and commercial space. Are you ready to test your abilities as a Storage Engineer and team member in a sophisticated enterprise exploitation environment? Would you like to make an immediate and direct impact in your job? Join a dedicated team supporting the UDS contract at NGA. Responsibilities What you get to do every day: 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 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 Qualifications Clearance: Active TS (SCI eligibility) clearance and eligibility to obtain a CI poly is required upon application for initial consideration This position is not open for any clearance upgrades or sponsorship. Certification Required: CompTIA Security+ or similar for IAT Level II DoD 8570 certification Education/Experience: Requires Bachelor's Degree in Computer Programming, Science, Engineering or a related technical discipline, or the equivalent combination of education, technical training, or work/military experience 5+ years of experience 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 What is ideal? NetApp Certification PowerShell/Python scripting experience Experience leveraging scripts to audit and enforce configuration standards Amazon Web Services / C2S experience Experience in technical operations at DOD agencies, particularly NGA and DIA What you can expect from us Recognizing great achievements do not go unnoticed by teKnoluxion through service anniversaries, spot awards, and employee referral bonuses You'll join a growing organization of passionate, top-shelf, IT engineering professionals with extensive experience in actively developing the technology revolution in the Intelligence community Highlights of our benefits include Health/Dental/Vision, 401(k) match and potential Profit Sharing, Universal Leave, STD/LTD/Life Insurance/Voluntary Life Insurance, Stipends, Referral Bonuses, and more. Compensation is unique to each candidate and compensation packages are based on education, experience, and other requirements. teKnoluxion is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by law. teKnoluxion does not have a vaccination mandate applicable to team members. Vaccination requirements will depend on the status of the federal contractor mandate and customer site requirements. Regardless of vaccination status , personnel are required to wear masks while indoors when the CDC COVID-19 Community Level is High.
Date Posted: 22 May 2024
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