Information Technology Senior Consultant 5-BP-142

TO BE CONSIDERED FOR THIS POSITION YOU MUST HAVE AN ACTIVE TS/SCI W/ FULL SCOPE POLYGRAPH SECURITY CLEARANCE (U.S. CITIZENSHIP REQUIRED)

Hands on NetApp experience a MUST
• Hands-on engineering experience with NetApp and other storage technologies and concepts (Storage Area Network - SAN & Network Attached Storage - NAS) • Must have knowledge and understanding of protocols such as S3, CIFS, NFS, iSCI, and Fiber Channel Block Storage (SAN) • Experience with capacity planning and sizing storage and backup environments (to include Veritas NetBackup, Cohesity, Rubrik, & CommVault • Experience in performance tuning and optimizing storage and backup environments • Experience with data center migrations and storage replication technologies • Senior-level experience with the 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 environments • 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..
• Experience connecting storage arrays to Hypervisor Technologies (NUTANIX, VMWARE VCF, OpenStack). • Understanding of security best practices and federal hardening requirements (FISMA, STIG, etc.)
• CompTIA Security+ or similar certification for IAT Level II DoD 8570 compliance • Proficient written and oral communication skills
• Strong collaborative attitude and ability to work in a team environment
• Ability to take direction

• Design, architect, configure, deploy, upgrade, and support various storage and backup platforms and associated management tools • Diagnose and troubleshoot storage systems and other related technologies • Adhere to engineering and architecture standards and participate in technical review meetings as required • Participate in the evaluation, deployment, management, and integration of new technologies in alignment with other engineers, architects, and technical service lanes • Provide incident support and participate in on-call rotation during off-hours and weekends • Create and maintain documentation: logical/physical diagrams, run books, and other technical engineering documents • Demonstrate initiative and commitment to optimizing systems and processes • Oversee the installation of new storage hardware and software according to standard operating procedures • Oversee updates to hardware, operating systems, and software as needed to provide required functionality and security • Ensure systems are monitored and statistics relevant to capacity, performance, utilization, etc., are collected and regularly reviewed • Keep abreast of current developments in storage and backup technology to assist Federal staff in assessing the future direction of storage and backup technology
Benefits to working in this role:  • opportunity to work on critical, high-impact projects that contribute to national security 


Minimum:
• Experience scripting with Java using Linux
• Strong background with Docker using Maven
• Proficiency with Git/Gitlab; knowledge and experience with CI/CD and GitOps Principles
• Expereince with Helm, Kubectl, and Kubernetes
Preferred:
• Experience with Flux and Kustomize
• Experience with kafka, kyverno and/or minio



DESIRED EXPERIENCE:
​​​​​​Associates degree with fifteen (15) years of relevant experience or bachelor’s degree with twelve (12) years of relevant experience.

EDUCATION: 

High School Diploma with 20 years of relevant experience.   
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