at ECS Federal LLC in Pocatello, Idaho, United States
Job Description
ECS is seeking a Principal Systems Engineer III (Storage) to work in our Pocatell o , ID or Huntsville, AL office .The Principal Systems Engineer III (Storage) will be responsible for design, deployment, testing, certification, patching, and addressing interoperability issues, not only of the base Storage & Backup system, but for all features, components, and application dependencies. This includes Storage Area Network (SAN), Network Attached Storage (NAS), local disk, Fibre Channel, iSCSI, etc.
Responsibilities:
- Supporting highly available enterprise grade storage arrays and storage networking equipment.
- NAS/file storage protocols such as SMB/CIFS, NFS v3 and v4.
- ISCSI and/or Fiber Channel Fabric connections to switches and arrays.
- Functional knowledge and experience with Windows Server operating system and Active Directory/LDAP/DNS/NTP/Kerberos - specifically how these affect network file system storage access in Windows.
- Windows NTFS security settings, Windows ACLs, VSS snapshots.
- POSIX OS ACLs/mode-bits as it pertains to file system permissions.
- Managing Windows Distributed File System (DFS) for SMB HA.
- Experience with file-based data migrations utilizing applications like Robocopy andRsync.
- Methodical approach to change execution and implementation to avoid risk and downtime in an enterprise environment.
- Understanding of storage concepts likeRAID, hard disk technology, disk/device tiering (HSM), disk cache, compression, data-deduplication, replication,snapshots, andhost multipathing.
- Understanding of block, file, and object-based storage as well as their appropriate use cases.
- Familiarity withvirtualization, VMFS, vVols, specifically VMwareVCenter/vSphere/vSANas it pertains to thin provisioning storage and data reduction techniques.
- Experience with any of the following is a plus: Cohesity, Pure StorageFlashArrayorFlashBlade, DellEMC, object protocols (S3), Dell Compellent, Western DigitalIntelliflash, NetApp, EMC VNX, Isilon, Hitachi Arrays and Hitachi Command Suite.
- Must have a current Top-Secret Clearance with the capability of obtaining SCI / CI-Poly if needed to meet contract requirements.
- 10+ years of storage related experience.
- Advanced mainstream storage vendor certification.
