Cloud and Storage Engineer

About the role

Contact Government Services (CGS) brings motivated, highly skilled, and creative people together to solve the government’s most dynamic problems with cutting-edge technology. To carry out our mission, we are seeking candidates who are excited to contribute to government innovation, appreciate collaboration, and can anticipate the needs of others. Here at CGS, we offer an environment in which our employees feel supported, and we encourage professional growth through various learning opportunities.

Responsibilities

• Develops and implements full scale Storage Area Network (SAN) architecture for a large EMC-based SAN infrastructure in a multi-enterprise, complex, geographically dispersed solution; ranging from single servers to multi-tier, multi-platform solutions connected through fiber channel to multiple EMC Storage Arrays with petabytes of storage capacity.
• The SAN architecture considers the following aspects relating to SAN: performance, capacity, replication, disaster recovery, backup disk storage, and backup & recovery.
• Defines and sets a strategic direction for the SAN and backup environment.
• Designs and implements customer storage requirements into an enterprise solution that will be developed, installed, configured, and deployed in the environment.
• Provides overall storage and backup capacity planning, and utilization reporting.
• Produces standards and implementation processes for storage configuration, optimization, replication, virtualization, storage security, and disaster recovery.
• Troubleshoots complex SAN infrastructure issues and works with customers both internal and external to effectively resolve issues.
• Reviews, plans, and participates in executing regularly scheduled maintenances and/or projects on the storage infrastructure.
• Develops technical documentation, tiered storage and storage-as-a-service roadmaps, presentations, and cost models.
• Responsible for managing, maintaining, and developing the SAN infrastructure as part of a team to ensure 24/7/365 uptime.
• Architects and maintains private cloud environment.
• Professional experience with Gov Cloud (AWS, Azure, etc.) and hybrid cloud architectures desired.
• Performs security related tasks which include, but are not limited to, documentation, vulnerability scan review, assessment support, patch management, and auditing as required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s in computer science, business, or other relevant discipline.
• Eight (8) years of relevant work experience may be substituted for degree requirement.
• Must have significant, direct experience in Dell EMC products such as OneFile System (OneFS), MDS SAN switches, storage arrays (Unity, Isilon, VNS, and Data Domain), and RecoverPoint.

Skills

• Significant, direct experience in Dell EMC products such as OneFile System (OneFS), MDS SAN switches, storage arrays (Unity, Isilon, VNS, and Data Domain), and RecoverPoint.
• Experience with AWS, Azure, and other Gov Cloud environments.
• Experience with cloud architecture and design.
• Experience with security-related tasks including documentation, vulnerability scans, assessments, patch management, and auditing.

Benefits

We offer a comprehensive benefits package including:

• Health, Dental, and Vision
• Life Insurance
• 401k
• Flexible Spending Account (Health, Dependent Care, and Commuter)
• Paid Time Off and Observance of State/Federal Holidays

Pay

$100,949.33 - $137,002.66 annually

Schedule

Full time