Location: Springfield, VA/St. Louis, MO

Security Clearance Required: Active TS (SCI eligibility) clearance and eligibility to obtain a CI poly is required upon application for initial consideration **This position is not open for any clearance upgrades or sponsorship.**

Certification Required: CompTIA Security+ or similar for IAT Level II DoD 8570 certification

teKnoluxion provides the Defense and Intelligence Communities technical experts in the fields of Software & Systems Engineering, Enterprise Operations, and Cloud Services Management & Consulting. Our goal is not to simply support efforts, but to ignite a technology revolution, bridging the growing technology gap between the Government and commercial space.

Are you ready to test your abilities as a Senior Storage Engineer and team member in a sophisticated enterprise exploitation environment? Would you like to make an immediate and direct impact in your job? Join a dedicated team supporting the UDS contract at NGA.

What you get to do every day:

• Plan and manage the installation, configuration, and tuning of SAN and storage hardware and software.
• Leverage market technologies associated with SAN vendor product enhancements and product roadmaps.
• Develop, implement, and oversee policies and procedures to ensure consistent storage provisioning, and uptime, alongside regulatory compliance and data protection.
• Manage and provide current storage usage statistics and provide future projected growth estimates.
• Develop and maintain information storage systems for a company's customers.
• Ensure database security while operating in various applications and maintain hardware components while upgrading network processes.
• Install, maintain and improve system configurations and solutions, as well as monitor and audit system utilization, performance and problems.
• Perform data migration tasks from direct attached storage and within SAN environments.
• Design modifications and changes to the SAN and NAS infrastructure and assists in the implementation and documentation of all configuration changes.
• Perform daily storage engineer activities including management, zoning, provisioning, troubleshooting, and debugging.
• Provide contractor or vendor proposals to the appropriate staff for review and approval.
• Monitor and manage maintenance tasks via online project management tools.

Clearance: Active TS (SCI eligibility) clearance and eligibility to obtain a CI poly is required upon application for initial consideration **This position is not open for any clearance upgrades or sponsorship.**

Certification Required: CompTIA Security+ or similar for IAT Level II DoD 8570 certification

Education/Experience:

• Requires Bachelor's Degree in Computer Programming, Science, Engineering or a related technical discipline, or the equivalent combination of education, technical training, or work/military experience
• 5+ years of experience

Required Skills:

• Hands on engineering experience with NetApp and other storage technologies and concepts
• Experience with SAN, NAS and iSCSI storage implementations
• Experience with capacity planning and sizing storage and backup environments
• Experience in performance tuning and optimizing storage and backup environments
• Experience with data center migrations and storage replication technologies
• Senior level experience with design, development, implementation and maintenance of large-scale systems, preferably across multiple hardware platforms and data centers
• Strong understanding of high availability concepts with practical experience and implementation of key components in storage environment
• Strong understanding of fundamental hardware concepts: disk, memory, CPU, NIC, HBA, firmware, RAID, performance concepts (I/O, paging, swapping, system calls), iSCSI, Fiber Channel, Ethernet
• Strong understanding of essential TCP/IP concepts: TCP, UDP, ICMP, SMTP, SNMP, LDAP, DNS, NTP, etc.
• Understanding of security best practices, federal hardening requirements (FISMA, STIG, etc.)
• Proficient written and oral communication skills
• Strong collaborative attitude and ability to work in a team environment
• Ability to take direction

What is ideal?

• NetApp Certification
• PowerShell/Python scripting experience
• Experience leveraging scripts to audit and enforce configuration standards
• Amazon Web Services / C2S experience
• Experience in technical operations at DOD agencies, particularly NGA and DIA

• Recognizing great achievements do not go unnoticed by teKnoluxion through service anniversaries, spot awards, and employee referral bonuses
• Youll join a growing organization of passionate, top-shelf, IT engineering professionals with extensive experience in actively developing the technology revolution in the Intelligence community
• Highlights of our benefits include Health/Dental/Vision, 401(k) match and potential Profit Sharing, Universal Leave, STD/LTD/Life Insurance/Voluntary Life Insurance, Stipends, Referral Bonuses, and more!
• Compensation is unique to each candidate and compensation packages are based on education, experience, and other requirements.