Network Area Storage (NAS) Engineer - Senior

Company: ManTech
Location: Columbia
Posted on: February 1, 2025

Job Description:

ManTech is seeking a motivated, career and customer-oriented Senior Network Area Storage (NAS) Engineer, to join our team in Columbia, Maryland. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to the following:

• Design, deploy, and manage enterprise storage systems, ensuring high availability, redundancy, and disaster recovery capabilities across multiple data centers and physical sites.
• Configure, monitor, and optimize storage solutions to meet performance, capacity, and scalability requirements while minimizing downtime and ensuring data integrity.
• Manage storage protocol, ensuring proper configuration and integration with VMware and physical servers.
• Perform regular infrastructure assessments, updates, and patches on storage systems to ensure optimal performance, security, and compliance with industry best practices and organizational standards.
• Troubleshoot storage-related issues, including performance bottlenecks, connectivity issues, and data access problems, utilizing root cause analysis techniques.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (networking, virtualization, cloud, and security) to design and implement storage solutions that meet project requirements and align with organizational goals.
• Design and implement disaster recovery and backup solutions for enterprise storage environments.
• Develop and maintain documentation related to storage architecture, procedures, and configurations, ensuring compliance with industry standards and organizational policies.
• Evaluate and recommend new storage technologies and solutions to enhance system performance, efficiency, and scalability, keeping up to date with emerging trends and vendor offerings.
• Support security initiatives to protect enterprise storage systems, ensuring compliance with applicable security policies, regulations, and best practices. -Minimum/Basic Qualifications:
  • Fifteen (15) years' experience in storage operations / storage engineering.
  • Bachelor of Science (BS) Degree from an accredited university in a technical field is required. Five (5) additional years of experience in storage operations may be considered in lieu of degree.
  • IAT II level certification or the ability to obtain within 60 days of start.Preferred Qualifications:
    • Twenty (20) years' experience in overall storage operations or storage architecture. Of that, ten (10) years of experience must be in the specific storage technology that is in the customer environment.
    • StorageTek Enterprise Level experience preferred.
    • Knowledge and understanding of protocols, such as S3, CIFS, NFS, ISCSI, and Fiber Channel for Block Storage (SAN).
    • Proficiency with backup platforms, to include Veritas NetBackup, Cohesity, Rubrik, and Commvault.
    • Proficiency in Networked Attached Storage (NAS) systems, such as Oracle Solaris Unix, HP Greenlake/VAST, Oracle ZFS, DELL, NETAPP Cluster.
    • Experience in performance tuning as well as optimizing storage and backup environments.
    • Experience with data center migrations and storage replication technologies.
    • Experience connecting storage arrays to Hypervisor Technologies (NUTANIX, VMWARE VCF, OpenStack).Clearance Requirements:
      • Must have a current/active Top Secret/SCI with PolygraphPhysical Requirements:
        • Sedentary work, speaking, standing, talking, walking, working with computers, working with data, working with numbers and figures, ability to handle stress & work under pressure, ability to use MS Office and a PC, analytical or critical thinking skills, leadership and listening skills, multi-tasking, ability, negotiating skills, oral & written communication skills, presentation skills, project management ability and skills, computer operating skills, and team building skills -6.26.BP.SH.AB.AL.23

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