Principal Sys Engineer III (Storage)
ECS Corporate Services

ECS is seeking a Principal Systems Engineer III (Storage) to work in our Pocatello, ID / Huntsville, AL / Clarksburg, WV office.

Job Description:

The Principal Systems Engineer III (Storage) will be responsible for design, deployment, testing, certification, patching, addressing interoperability issues, not only of the base storage system, but for all features, components, and application dependencies - to include Storage Area Network (SAN), Network Attached Storage (NAS), Tape, local disk, Fibre Channel, iSCSI, etc.

Position requirements and duties of the Principal Systems Engineer III (Storage):

• Support 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, WesternDigital Intelliflash, Netapp, EMC VNX, Isilon, Hitachi Arrays and Hitachi Command Suite.

Required Skills:

• 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.
• An advanced mainstream storage vendor certification.

Desired Skills:

• Bachelor's degree.

ECS is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, age, national origin, citizenship, disability, veteran status or any other classification protected by federal, state, or local law. ECS promotes affirmative action for minorities, women, disabled persons, and veterans.

ECS is a leading mid-sized provider of technology services to the United States Federal Government. We are focused on people, values and purpose. Every day, our 3800+ employees focus on providing their technical talent to support the Federal Agencies and Departments of the US Government to serve, protect and defend the American People.

General Description of Benefits

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