ECS ยท 3 weeks ago
Principal Systems Engineer III (Storage)
ECS is a leading mid-sized provider of technology services to the United States Federal Government. They are seeking a Principal Systems Engineer III (Storage) to design, deploy, test, and certify storage systems while addressing interoperability issues in enterprise environments.
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Responsibilities
Supporting highly available enterprise grade storage arrays and storage networking equipment
NAS/file storage protocols such as SMB/CIFS, NFS v3 and v4
ISCSI and/or Fiber Channel Fabric connections to switches and arrays
Functional knowledge and experience with Windows Server operating system and Active Directory/LDAP/DNS/NTP/Kerberos - specifically how these affect network file system storage access in Windows
Windows NTFS security settings, Windows ACLs, VSS snapshots
POSIX OS ACLs/mode-bits as it pertains to file system permissions
Managing Windows Distributed File System (DFS) for SMB HA
Experience with file-based data migrations utilizing applications like Robocopy and Rsync
Methodical approach to change execution and implementation to avoid risk and downtime in an enterprise environment
Understanding of storage concepts like RAID, hard disk technology, disk/device tiering (HSM), disk cache, compression, data-deduplication, replication, snapshots, and host multipathing
Understanding of block, file, and object-based storage as well as their appropriate use cases
Familiarity with virtualization, VMFS, vVols, specifically VMware VCenter/vSphere/vSAN as it pertains to thin provisioning storage and data reduction techniques
Experience with any of the following is a plus: Cohesity, Pure Storage FlashArray or FlashBlade, DellEMC, object protocols (S3), Dell Compellent, Western Digital Intelliflash, NetApp, EMC VNX, Isilon, Hitachi Arrays and Hitachi Command Suite
Qualification
Required
Must have a current Top-Secret Clearance with the capability of obtaining SCI / CI-Poly if needed to meet contract requirements
10+ years of storage related experience
Advanced mainstream storage vendor certification
Supporting highly available enterprise grade storage arrays and storage networking equipment
NAS/file storage protocols such as SMB/CIFS, NFS v3 and v4
ISCSI and/or Fiber Channel Fabric connections to switches and arrays
Functional knowledge and experience with Windows Server operating system and Active Directory/LDAP/DNS/NTP/Kerberos - specifically how these affect network file system storage access in Windows
Windows NTFS security settings, Windows ACLs, VSS snapshots
POSIX OS ACLs/mode-bits as it pertains to file system permissions
Managing Windows Distributed File System (DFS) for SMB HA
Experience with file-based data migrations utilizing applications like Robocopy and Rsync
Methodical approach to change execution and implementation to avoid risk and downtime in an enterprise environment
Understanding of storage concepts like RAID, hard disk technology, disk/device tiering (HSM), disk cache, compression, data-deduplication, replication, snapshots, and host multipathing
Understanding of block, file, and object-based storage as well as their appropriate use cases
Familiarity with virtualization, VMFS, vVols, specifically VMware VCenter/vSphere/vSAN as it pertains to thin provisioning storage and data reduction techniques
Experience with any of the following is a plus: Cohesity, Pure Storage FlashArray or FlashBlade, DellEMC, object protocols (S3), Dell Compellent, Western Digital Intelliflash, NetApp, EMC VNX, Isilon, Hitachi Arrays and Hitachi Command Suite
Preferred
Bachelor's degree
Company
ECS
ECS is a fast-growing 4,000-person, $1.2B provider of advanced technology solutions for federal civilian, defense, intelligence, and commercial customers.
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
unknown2018-01-31Acquired
2015-04-10Private Equity
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