Data Protection and Storage Engineer

Company Description

• Manage a private cloud backup and enterprise storage environment that spans three NNSA sites to provide data protection and storage services to enterprise collaboration tool suites, databases, applications, servers, and other core infrastructure componentry in support of established service level agreements.
• Administer highly available data protection and storage solutions in support of mission application disaster recovery, COOP, and availability needs.
• Plan and execute systems lifecycle activities for the data protection, and enterprise storage environments such as upgrades, patching, capacity management, and technology augmentation.
• Provide operational support for the data protection and storage solutions in support of customer needs, such as backup & storage configuration, SAN configuration, triage, security issue remediation, system documentation, and service monitoring.
• Develop automation and orchestration solutions (e.g. Shell scripting, Python, Ansible Playbooks) for backup & storage administration and systems management tasks, including lifecycle, ongoing monitoring and maintenance, backup/recovery, and other relevant software/utilities for distributing and enforcing standard configurations, supporting patching, and pushing out new software and configuration changes.
• Plan and coordinate physical hardware racking placement, cabling, triage, and replacement processes with the data center operations and network staff.
• Collaborate with management, customers, and team members to evaluate and recommend procurements of hardware and software and provide guidance to end users for the design of their computing environments and technical areas.
• Implement security and systems administration policy requirements such as vulnerability remediation, and system build requirements.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

• Manage multiple advanced parallel tasks and priorities of customers and stakeholders to ensure deadlines are met, while leveraging team members' skills.
• Apply in-depth technical expertise to solve complex technical problems and develop solutions using judgment in determining methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria.

• Ability to obtain and maintain a US DOE Q-level security clearance which requires U.S. Citizenship.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Business Administration with a concentration in Computer or Management Information Systems, or related field, or the equivalent combination of education and related experience.
• Broad, multi-year experience in operationally managing enterprise data protection & storage services across sites leveraging enterprise backup solutions (such as Commvault, Rubrik, or other) in support of stringent SLA agreements that stipulate narrow RTO/RPO durations, including managing storage allocations across available storage types, such as EMC or NetApp, and configuring SAN topologies to best meet service needs.
• Comprehensive knowledge of and experience performing systems administration in a complex environment, including tasks such as installation, performance tuning, networking, security policy enforcement, troubleshooting, monitoring, backup/archiving, and hardware management.
• Broad experience interacting with computer security remediation efforts to ensure computer security compliance, monitoring systems for general health, monitor service request queue, security incidents, and other events, and developing security configurations that meet cyber requirements.
• Comprehensive analytical skills necessary to analyze and triage moderately complex systems and storage networks.
• Proficient verbal and written communication skills necessary to effectively collaborate in a team environment and present and explain technical information.
• Ability to work on a rotational on-call schedule, with a requirement to work onsite multiple days per week.

• Advanced knowledge of and significant experience in the above technical languages, concepts, or constructs.
• Significant experience with security configuration standards, (e.g., CIS, STIGs or the equivalent).
• Professional Certifications (e.g., Commvault, EMC, VMware VCA or VCP-DCV, CompTIA A+, RedHat RHCSA, Ansible, AWS).

• Experience leveraging system monitoring tools to track systems health and alert upon issue.
• Experience leveraging agile project management methodologies.
• Experience executing business continuity and disaster recovery exercises to prove existing high availability and data protections services meet establish SLA requirements.

• Flexible Benefits Package
• 401(k)
• Relocation Assistance
• Education Reimbursement Program
• Flexible schedules (depending on project needs)
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