Storage Engineer

Iron Bow Technologies is for people who believe trust is paramount, transformation is embraced, and the future is here, because "What we do matters!"

We are a next generation solutions provider, delivering mission success across government, healthcare, and commercial industries. Iron Bow relies on our passionate people, long standing partnerships, and strategic thinking to solve your most critical challenges.

Whether we team with clients, colleagues, or partners, we put each other first. It's The Iron Bow Way.

THE OPPORTUNITY

Storage Engineer will architect, implement, and maintain enterprise-scale storage solutions supporting the Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization environment. This includes design and optimization of block, file, and object storage systems used for production, disaster recovery, and archival functions.  The candidate will also validate storage architecture performance, provide performance tuning, and ensure high availability and data protection across mission-critical workloads

HOW YOU'LL MAKE AN IMPACT

• Selected candidate will serve as Storage Engineer to architect, implement and maintain enterprise-scale storage solutions supporting the U.S Department of Veterans Affairs RedHat OpenShift Virtualization environment
• Responsible for the deployment and sustainment of advanced software defined storage systems
• Deploy, integrate and manage large-scale persistent storage environments into containerized and virtualized environments.
• Develop and adhere to processes and best-practices for efficient Day-2 operations
• Leverage and contribute to automation and orchestration of the environment
• Lead multiple project initiatives from small to large complex within environment
• Tackle critical customer escalations as the technical point of contact
• Assist with both high-level and low-level design documentations
• Effectively work independently and within a team environment
• Perform sustainment activities such as code upgrades, STIG compliance, cybersecurity incident response, outage troubleshooting, customer onboarding, and configuration optimization

SKILLS THAT DRIVE SUCCESS

• Deep expertise in enterprise storage platforms, including, but not limited to, NetApp ONTAP systems including FAS/AFF, Dell PowerStore, and Pure FlashBlade and FlashArray Storage
• Architecture experience with software-defined storage systems including ONTAP Select, vSAN, VxRail, HyperFlex, Cohesity, and Ctera.
• Experience integrating persistent storage into containerized and virtualized environments (VMware vSphere and Tanzu, Red Hat OpenShift and Kubernetes)
• Proficiency in storage provisioning, snapshotting, replication, and disaster recovery design
• Strong understanding of storage protocols (NFS, iSCSI, FC, NVMe-oF, REST) and associated performance characteristics
• Experience automating storage provisioning via Ansible, Container Storage Interface (CSI) drivers, or Kubernetes storage classes
• Ability to troubleshoot performance bottlenecks and capacity issues across hybrid or converged infrastructures
• 10+ years of hands-on experience in enterprise storage engineering roles
• US citizen able to obtain VA Public Trust clearance

 TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS

10%

WHY YOU'LL LOVE IT

• You will be a key member of the technical team supporting one of the customers' top 10 Programs. The work you will be performing is on a cutting edge, large scale, Virtualization Migration effort that will save the customer time and money which ultimately positively affect their mission.
• At our core, we're a team of hands-on engineers and solution architects who take pride in doing things right. You'll join a culture built on trust, engineering excellence, and accountability where solving complex problems is part of the everyday mission.  We deliver real solutions, earn real trust, and stand behind everything we build. If you take pride in your craft, value teamwork over ego, and want to be part of a team that does what it says, come build something real with us.
• Iron Bow is rapidly growing and with growth comes opportunity for all.  There is palpable energy and momentum across the company that is easy to tap into and be inspired by. 
• Be a part of organizational transformation.  Now's the time to join.  Iron Bow is redesigning the customer and employee experience.  This new approach elevates all and truly enables success. 

OUR EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER COMMITMENT

Iron Bow Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment.  All employment decisions at Iron Bow are based on relevant business considerations, such as operational needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or gender expression, pregnancy, national origin, age, disability, status as a protected veteran or any other characteristic prohibited by law. Iron Bow will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics.