Senior Storage Design Engineer

Job Description: 

• Assist the Government Lead in the daily engineering duties on systems.
• Implement and administer networked storage infrastructure and interconnected systems, capacity planning, and performance analysis and design of storage systems.
• Determine current levels of system and application resource utilization and performance.
• Construct analytical models and develop workload projection methodologies to estimate and describe utilization and performance at multiple levels.
• Utilize the capacity management tool set to perform workload sizing for new and existing applications.
• Plan and evaluate storage requirements.
• Support the implementation of hardware and software upgrades and analyze the impact of new technologies on processor and peripheral utilization and performance.
• Construct capacity plans, develop capacity reports, oversee storage of capacity and performance data, and conduct capacity management audits.
• Support disaster recovery sizing activities.
• Design, Develop and Integrate Storage Attached Network (SAN) Storage design, configuration, and integration including, but not limited to, NetApp and EMC storage solutions.  
• Provide capacity and performance management, design, configuration, and integration.
• Design, Develop and Operate High Availability/ Disaster Recovery (HA/DR) solutions management to configure, integrate, and support virtualization, systems, and appliance storage.
• Complete tasks associated with Fiber Channel, IP Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI), Network Attached Storage (NAS) design, configuration, integration with switching fabric.  
• Complete data de-duplication, mirroring and retention.  
• Design storage devices based on analysis of capacity use and requirements.  
• Execute installation and integration of storage device, system, and components.
• Develop, Configure and Integrate Virtual Storage Console for VMWare.
• Perform tasks associated with application networking ports and protocols, Information Assurance (IA), routing and Local Area Network (LAN).  
• Execute tasks associated with storage security design and management.  
• Configure and integrate NetApp Data on Tap 8.x design.  
• Perform storage design supporting Microsoft Distributed File System (DFS), Exchange and Structured Query Language (SQL) and storage integration utilizing Logical Unit Numbers (LUNs), quota distribution and file sharing.  
• Design, Develop and Operate storage integration with virtualization specifically, but not limited to, VMware and Hyper-V.  
• Perform storage integration with SQL 2008 r2 and HBSS and integration and installation on various server hardware.

Requirements:

10 years experience 
Experience with the following hardware, software and procedures and protocols:
•    Data Ontap 9.x 
•    Ontap CLI
•    iSCSI 
•    NFS
•    CIFS
•    FlexVols
•    Block Storage (LUNs)
•    IP Groups and routing
•    Ontap Upgrades
•    AFF (A70, A250, A300, A700) series of filers
•    SP and BMC consoles
•    Firmware upgrades
•    Active IQ (AIQ)
•    System Manager
•    SnapCenter
•    SnapMirror
•    Creating and restoring data from Snapshots
Education and Certifications

• Required: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, MIS, Business, or related field*
• Required: Secret Clearance
• Required: IASAE II / IAT III certification