Cleared Storage Design Engineer — Senior

Are you looking to take the next steps in your career as a Storage Design Engineer — Senior? Let's chat and see if we are a good match!

Opportunity:
Virtual Service Operations is searching for a Storage Design Engineer to join our dynamic team in Quantico, Virginia. As a Storage Design Engineer, you will assist the Government Lead in the daily engineering duties on systems, implementing and administering networked storage infrastructure and interconnected systems. Your responsibilities will span capacity planning, performance analysis, and the design of storage systems across a complex enterprise environment. If you have deep expertise in NetApp and EMC storage solutions, virtualization, and enterprise storage architecture, we want to hear from you!

Responsibilities:

• 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 toolset to perform workload sizing for new and existing applications; plan and evaluate storage requirements
• Construct capacity plans, develop capacity reports, oversee storage of capacity and performance data, and conduct capacity management audits
• Support the implementation of hardware and software upgrades and analyze the impact of new technologies on processor and peripheral utilization and performance
• Support disaster recovery sizing activities
• Design, develop, and integrate Storage Attached Network (SAN) storage including 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 to configure, integrate, and support virtualization, systems, and appliance storage
• Complete tasks associated with Fiber Channel, iSCSI, and NAS design, configuration, and integration with switching fabric; perform data de-duplication, mirroring, and retention
• Design storage devices based on analysis of capacity use and requirements; execute installation and integration of storage devices, systems, 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 LAN; execute storage security design and management tasks
• Configure and integrate NetApp Data ONTAP 8.x
• Perform storage design supporting Microsoft DFS, Exchange, and SQL using LUNs, quota distribution, and file sharing
• Design, develop, and operate storage integration with virtualization including VMware and Hyper-V
• Perform storage integration with SQL 2008 R2 and HBSS on various server hardware
• Utilize SnapMirror, SnapDrive, and SnapManager for Exchange/SQL configuration
• Utilize NetApp tools including Data Fabric Manager, OnCommand Operations Manager/System Manager, and PowerShell
• Write API code and work proficiently with Oracle or other relational databases

Requirements

• Minimum 10 years of experience in storage engineering or a related discipline
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, MIS, Business, or a related field
• Active Secret clearance required
• CompTIA Security+ certification required
• Work Onsite in Quantico (3 days a week minimum)

What is Important to Us:

• You are an excellent communicator in writing and speaking.
• You have the ability to work independently but also value teamwork.
• Your problem-solving skills are excellent.
• You are looking for a job where performance appraisals occur regularly, and you look forward to advancing your career.
• You seek a community of virtue-centered co-workers and clients.

What we offer you: As part of the VSO company, you will be part of a virtue-centered team who value their work and teammates. This is a no-jerk zone. We provide ongoing learning and development opportunities to foster continuous growth. We offer competitive salaries, health benefits, and flexible work arrangements.

More About VSO: VSO is a hybrid cloud and managed services consulting firm. Much of VSO’s success can be attributed to our deep partnerships with IT services industry leaders such as AWS, IBM, Microsoft and others. VSO leverages numerous other partner relationships so as to provide our customers with optimal support. Additionally, we take pride in taking care of our employees. We offer a wide variety of benefits for eligible employees related to health, retirement, professional development, and more! For more information, please visit our website at https://vso-inc.com/careers

Salary Description


$90,000 - $170,000