Category

Information Technology

Job Type

Full-time

Career Level

Staff

Education

High School / GED

Travel

None

Security Clearance Required

TS

Job Description

TMC Technologies is in search of a Senior Systems Engineer III (Storage) to support our federal client. The candidate must be a US citizen and possess an active Top Secret clearance to start due to federal contract requirements. The Senior Systems Engineer 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.

The Senior Systems Engineer III (Storage) role will be responsible for:
- 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, WesternDigital Intelliflash, Netapp, EMC VNX, Isilon, Hitachi Arrays and Hitachi Command Suite

Job Requirements

- Active Top Secret Clearance required
- Minimum of 10 years of storage related experience required
- Advanced mainstream storage vendor certification preferred
- Bachelor’s degree preferred

We are equal opportunity/affirmative action employers, committed to diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status, or any other protected characteristic under state or local law.