Senior Storage Engineer

Senior Storage Engineer

• Location : Arnold, MO (On Customer Site)
• Clearance : TS/SCI
• Citizenship : US Citizenship Required

Whether running countries, corporations, or courtrooms, our clients bear the responsibility for shaping the lives of millions. At Intellectix, we are on a mission to empower them with innovative technical solutions and drive transformational change. As a Senior Storage Engineer , you'll be the cornerstone of this mission, ensuring the security of crucial data, optimizing IT infrastructure, and simplifying business processes through cutting-edge software systems. Because at Intellectix, it's not what we do, it's why we do it.

Responsibilities & Duties :

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.

Incident support and participation in on-call rotation during off hours and weekends.

Create and maintain documentation: logical/physical diagrams, run books, and other technical engineering documents.

Consistently demonstrate initiative and commitment to optimizing systems and processes.

Oversee the installation of new storage hardware and software according to standard operating procedures.

Oversee the 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 Intellectix staff in assessing the future direction of storage and backup technology.

Qualifications :

Required :

Bachelor's degree and 8+ years of related experience, or equivalent combination.

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 a 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.).

CompTIA Security+ or similar for IAT Level II DoD 8570 certification.

Proficient written and oral communication skills.

Strong collaborative attitude and ability to work in a team environment.

Ability to take direction.

Desired :

NetApp Certification.

PowerShell/Python scripting experience.

Experience leveraging scripts to audit and enforce configuration standards.

Amazon Web Services / C2S experience.

Join Intellectix to be part of a dynamic team that thrives on tempo, teamwork, and technical excellence. Your skills and expertise will contribute to creating a safer and smarter tomorrow.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.