Open Systems Storage Engineer-DHA

About the role

The Social Security Administration's technology team plays a vital role in supporting the agency's mission to serve millions of Americans. We are responsible for the strategic planning, implementation, operation, and maintenance of the agency's computer systems and enterprise information technology infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Serves as the Agency's expert in the deployment mainframe or client server computer system data storage infrastructure and uses this expertise to develop addressing schema and hardware/software configurations to obtain the optimum configuration for a given project or workload.
• Serves as the leading technical authority in area of data storage, data recovery and data storage management and provides advice to SSA components on technical capabilities and limitations, configuration, and other related matters.
• Participates as required in all major mainframe or client server computer system and data storage procurement efforts, providing expert configuration data to ensure any proposed complement and configuration of hardware and software results in meeting predetermined Agency processing requirements.
• Solves the most difficult and intricate computer hardware/software configuration or performance problems resulting from design and/or deployment inadequacies of the melding of new design and/or deployment inadequacies or melding of new technologies with Legacy operating methods/procedures or software.
• Evaluates new mainframe or client server data storage infrastructure technologies and determines their functionality relative to SSA's plans.

Requirements

This job does not have an education qualification requirement.

Qualifications

To qualify for the 2210 IT Specialist series, the applicant must demonstrate the following competencies:

• Attention to Detail - Is thorough when performing work and conscientious about attending to detail.
• Customer Service - Works with clients and customers to assess their needs, provide information or assistance, resolve their problems, or satisfy their expectations; know about available products and services; and is committed to providing quality products and services.
• Oral Communication - Expresses information to individuals or groups effectively, taking into account the audience and nature of the information; makes clear and convincing oral presentations; listens to others, attends to nonverbal cues, and responds appropriately.
• Problem Solving - Identifies problems; determines accuracy and relevance of information; uses sound judgment to generate and evaluate alternatives, and to make recommendations.

Skills

Experience must be IT related; the experience may be demonstrated by paid or unpaid experience and/or completion of specific, intensive training (for example, IT certification), as appropriate.

Benefits

Not specified.

Pay

Salary Range Information: - Denver, CO: $140,239 - $182,316 - Durham, NC: $131,342 - $170,750 - Woodlawn, MD/Urbana, MD: $143,913 - 187,093 - Wilkes/Barre, PA: $125,776 - 163,514

Schedule

Not specified.