Senior Storage Administrator\n

Full Time Montgomery, AL\n

Secret clearance\n

Overview:\n

The AFINC III contract supporting the 26th\u202fNetwork Operations Squadron (26NOS) is searching for qualified candidates for the position of a\u202fSenior\u202fStorage Systems Administrator.\u202f\n

Responsibilities:\n\nImplementation and maintenance of enterprise SAN hardware (EMC VNX, Dell Compellent, etc.), fiber channel switches (Brocade, Dell\/EMC), host bus adapters (HBA) and software systems (Unisphere, Dell Storage Manager, CMCNE, WebTools, SANnav)\nSupport virtualization team infrastructure maintenance, storage vMotion, datastores and tiering.\nAssist with enterprise backup team strategies, systems (Veritas NetBackup), and tape library units.\u202f\nPerform analytical, technical and administrative work in the planning, design and installation of new and existing storage systems.\nEvaluate storage performance issues and storage requests for multiple local and remote data centers.\nPro-actively monitor storage service environments; Establish, recommend system\/service policies.\u202f\nResponsible for shared 24x7 coverage of the storage and\/or virtual infrastructure support\nResponsible for effective provisioning, installation\/configuration, operation, and maintenance of enterprise-wide storage related infrastructure both production and disaster recovery\nProvide a periodic report of system status to include uptime, incident and problems, open issues.\nRespond to system faults, analyzing and correcting applications or errors to reestablish service.\nProvide in depth systems analysis, system administration, security, compliance and maintenance of SAN equipment.\nAssist to plan and perform strategic patching, system, upgrades, software\/firmware updates, and hardware diagnosis\/repairs to SAN controllers, disk array enclosures (DAE), storage processors, controller processor blades, fabric configuration, fiber cables, fiber channel operating system, small form-factor pluggable (SFP), Block OE code and other elements.\nAble to audit, remediate, and maintain DISA Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) checklist documentation on supported systems utilizing technical procedures, best practices, hardening guidance, vendor manuals, user guides and runbooks.\nSupport provisional installation, configuration, operation and maintenance of servers (Dell PowerEdge, HPe ProLiant, etc.), systems hardware, software, and related infrastructure devices such as KVMs, out-of-band management (OOBM) tools like serial\/virtual consoles, integrated lights-out (ILO), iLO Amplifier, integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC) or Open Managed Enterprise (OME) appliances.\nEvaluate, recommend, and implement changes to existing\/new technologies determined to be relevant in meeting both the strategic and tactical plans.\u202f\nDevelop and\/or implement technical solutions based on defined mission scope and using approved software tools such as PuTTY, SecureCRT, Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), NotePad++, etc.\u202f\nPerform root cause analysis, recommend, and implement tactical and strategic solutions to problems.\nSupport day-to-day technical communication systems, alerts and incident tickets in support of operations; Open\/track change requests and interact with external customers or vendor.\nCandidate will oversee activities to include planning, researching, deploying, monitoring, upgrading, patching, and troubleshooting Splunk components spanning a large and complex environment.\nManage or assist the processes related to onboarding users\/projects, configuration audits, building data models, summary data reports, basic Search Processing Language (SPL), advanced search analytics.\nCommunicate, manage expectations, eliminate gaps and successfully interact with multiple external and internal 26th\u202fNOS team leads, administrators, analysts, users, customers, system owners and management.\nGuide customers in the use of strategic products through education and guidance, first-use and tuning assistance problem solving and critical situation resolution.\n\n

Qualifications\/Requirements:\n\nMust have a minimum of 5 years of SAN product experience.\nExperience with one or many operating systems: Windows\/UNIX\/Linux\/VMware based products.\nSolid knowledge of network protocols and technologies (TCP\/IP, VLANs, DHCP, SSH, LDAPS, SCP)\nExposure to physical servers and\/or virtualized environments such as VMware vSphere's vCenter Server Appliance, ESXi hosts, virtual machines (VMs), SAN datastores, host bus adapters (HBA) fiber connectivity, and\/or VM\/Host distributed resource schedules (DRS) groups\/rules.\nExperience with networking, desktops \/ laptops, middleware, client\/server software, Office products, server operating systems, virtualization, managing data, applications, websites, or database supporting a multi-site, multi-domain Windows forest.\nInteract well with all levels of management across multiple teams consisting of Government civilians, contractors, and military personnel.\nSelf-motivated self-starter, able to work autonomously and as part of a team, sharing knowledge to help others in a fast-paced cyber environment.\nThrive in fast-paced multi-task environment.\nAbility to analyze, propose and implement workflow and process improvements.\nGood communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to follow policies and procedures.\nExperience maintaining, overseeing and troubleshooting computers and related peripheral equipment performing preventative maintenance in accordance with department policies.\nAbility to lift, rack and provision government furnished equipment (GFE)\nMust possess the ability to supervise a team administratively and technically.\n\n

Education\/Certification(s):\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\n\nTechnical degree, Associates, or bachelor's degree in computer science\/information systems, Science\/Engineering\/Math, or 2-4 years' relevant experience in Information Technology preferably within system or application administration is acceptable.\nKnowledge or experience with the following is a plus: Hyperconvergence software-centric hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI); blade servers; Nutanix AHV; Nutanix Prism; Hyper-V.\nKnowledge or experience in any of following is a plus: HTML5, PowerShell, Java, VMware PowerCLI, OVF Tool, or VIBs\n\n

There are two required certifications for this position, that must be held prior to starting on the contract.\n\n\u202fRequires one of the following DoD 8570.01-M Information Assurance Technical (IAT) Level II certification to begin on contract:\n\n\nCompTIA Security+ CE (Continuing Education)\n\n\nCompTIA Cybersecurity Analyst (CySA+) CE (Continuing Education)\n\n\n(ISC)\u00b2 Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP)\n\n\nGIAC Global Industrial Cyber Security Professional (GICSP)\n\n\nGIAC Security Essentials Certification (GSEC)\n\n\n(ISC)\u00b2 Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP)\u202f\n\n\nRequires the following Computing Environment\/Operating System (CE\/OS) to begin on contract:\n\n\nDell Certified Associate Information Storage and Management (DCA-ISM)\n\n

Clearance:\u202f\n\nActive DoD\u202fSecret\u202frequired\u202for ability to complete investigation process for an interim clearance\n\n\nAbility to upgrade to Top Secret clearance preferred\n\n

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