Principal Systems Engineer (Storage)
ECS Corporate Services

Job Info

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ECS is seeking a Principal Systems Engineer (Storage) to work in our Pocatello, ID office.

Job Description:
The Contractor shall be responsible for design, deployment, testing, certification, patching, addressing interoperability issues, not only of the base storage & backup system, but for all features, components and application dependencies. To include Storage Area Network (SAN), Network Attached Storage (NAS), Tape, local disk, Fibre Channel, iSCSI, etc.

• Ability to solve complex infrastructure storage problems possibly spanning multiple disciplines.
• Methodical approach to procedure documentation using the Confluence wiki in combination with the MS Office suite.
• Methodical approach to change execution and implementation to avoid risk and downtime in an enterprise environment.
• Understanding of requirements-based engineering for providing scalable solutions.
• Experience supporting highly available enterprise grade storage arrays and storage networking equipment.
• Experience with NAS/file storage protocols such as SMB/CIFS, NFS v3 + v4.
• Experienced with 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.
• Experience with Windows NTFS security settings, Windows ACLs, VSS snapshots.
• Experience managing Windows Distributed File System (DFS) for SMB HA.
• Experience with file-based data migrations utilizing applications like Robocopy and rsync.

Required Skills:

• Bachelors, preferred
• Must have a TS Clearance with SCI Poly eligibility
• 4+ years of professional experience in an enterprise IT environment, preferably supporting Data Center Environments.

Desired Skills:

• Deep understanding of storage concepts like RAID, RAID Levels, hard disk technology, disk/device tiering (HSM), disk cache, compression, data-deduplication, replication, snapshots, and host multipathing.
• Deep understanding of block, file, and object-based storage as well as their appropriate use cases.
• Demonstrated experience with Linux (RHEL) and/or Unix and familiarity with command-line administration is a plus.
• Understanding of POSIX OS ACLs/mode-bits as it pertains to file system permissions.
• Experienced with configuring and maintaining Brocade and Cisco fabric switches is a plus.
• Familiarity with Virtualization, specifically VMware vcenter/vsphere/vsan as it pertains to thin provisioning storage and data reduction.
• Familiarity with vmware VMFS and vVols.
• Some kind of storage focused certification such as from SNIA or a vendor like EMC, Netapp, Pure etc.

ECS is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, age, national origin, citizenship, disability, veteran status or any other classification protected by federal, state, or local law. ECS promotes affirmative action for minorities, women, disabled persons, and veterans.

ECS is a leading mid-sized provider of technology services to the United States Federal Government. We are focused on people, values and purpose. Every day, our 3000+ employees focus on providing their technical talent to support the Federal Agencies and Departments of the US Government to serve, protect and defend the American People.

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