Storage Engineer
TEKsystems (Washington, Washington DC)

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CLIENT INFORMATION:

Our client and the medical schools, teaching hospitals, academic and professional societies, faculty, residents, and students they represent are committed to improving the nation's health through medical education, research, and high-quality patient care. Our client is dedicated to the communities they serve, committed to advancing the public good, and steadfast in they desire to earn and keep the public's trust for the role they are privileged to play in our society.

JOB SUMMARY:

The Storage Engineer works as the technical lead for all centralized storage at the CLIENT. The engineer maintains and enhances the CLIENT dynamic NAS/SAN (NetApps) infrastructure. In addition, they manage the design and configuration of Veritas Netbackup. In all, the engineer is responsible for a shared storage infrastructure of 50 terabytes of on-line storage and 40+ terabytes (and growing) of tape libraries. They serve as the technical lead for translating storage requirements into actionable storage infrastructure. The engineer serves a critical link between systems administration operation staff and architecture staffs in carrying out storage design work.


JOB DUTIES:

-- Define, design, enhance and maintain a high growth storage environment consisting of NAS in a high availability, mission critical environment.

-- Works with support organizations to identify storage infrastructure enhancements.

-- Coordinate with engineering, architecture and supports teams.

-- Evaluate and integrate vendor systems, management, and monitoring solutions.

-- Integrate, test, and certify all storage architectural standards.

-- Design, and enhance backup and recovery architecture.

-- Train support personal as required.

-- Coordinate and/or lead audits of process compliance for critical storage processes by other team members.

-- Provide second and third level support for all storage infrastructure elements.


QUALIFICATIONS:

-- General all-around knowledge of data center disciplines – computer operations, technical support, network infrastructure, database administration, and application programming.

-- Experience with backup technologies; specifically Veritas NetBackup in a large scale environment.

-- Experience with NAS, specifically Network Appliance, CIFS and NFS in heterogeneous environment consisting of UNIX, Windows, and Linux clients.

-- Experience in Network Appliance data protection technologies: snapshot, SnapMirrow, NDMP backups, SnapDrive, SnapManager for exchange and Oracle.

-- Working knowledge of network protocols, Cisco routers and switches and ISCSI.

-- Demonstrated ability to write both technical and procedural documentation is required.

-- Experience with management tools necessary to manage large storage installations a plus.

-- Experience in either UNIX systems administration or TCP/IP networking are major pluses.

-- Familiarity with emerging storage technologies a plus.


ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

-- Location is Washington, DC

-- This is a 6 month contract-to-hire opportunity.

*** Screening process includes:

1) Meet with TEKsystems recruiter
2) 2 Technical References
3) Interview with Client
Required Skills: NAS, NETAPPS, VERITAS NETBACKUP, SAN Join TEKsystems® and get your career on the fast track. As the leading technology staffing and services firm, we are passionate about deploying high-caliber IT and communications expertise. To satisfy our constant need for expertise, we actively seek talented Technical Professionals with all levels of information technology and communications skills. TEKsystems knows that every professional has different needs, so we'll work together to determine a suitable benefits package. We offer options to our Technical Professionals that could include: a health plan, 401k, provisions for vacation and holiday pay, and technical and professional training. With a foundation as the nation's largest IT staffing firm, we've become a billion-dollar services company by blending superior client service with an unrivaled ability to source and manage talent to precise specifications, resulting in successful technology executions. Allegis Group and its subsidiaries are equal opportunity employers. M/F/D/V