Enterprise Storage Team Lead

GDIT is looking to hire an Enterprise Storage SME to lead our Storage Team.  The Storage Lead will lead a team of senior engineers and provide assistance to the customer with the design, implementation and ongoing support of the SEC storage environment. 

The selected candidate must be a US Citizen (without dual citizenship) and eligible to obtain a public trust clearance, per contract requirements. This is a hybrid position and candidates must reside in the Washington, DC Metro area.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:                      

• Responsible for leading and managing the day-to-day operations of the storage area network (SAN) team. 

• Monitor time and approve timesheets

• Oversees all aspects of the SAN architecture, providing insight on the design, backup strategies, and networking

• Manages project and workloads of SAN team, overseeing system analysis activities, troubleshooting, and incident management.  

• Plans workloads, projects, and other administrative tasks associated with the management of the SAN.

• Management and operation of a large storage infrastructure, that includes NetApp

• Create scripts to automate routine administrative tasks and provide system level reports

• Leverage experience to provide input to improvements (People, Process, Tools, and Technology) in the environment, and recommend innovative and automated approaches for system administration tasks

• Resolve complex issues independently; coordinate and communicate changes and issues with the client and team members and determine root cause

• Install new storage, and configure in accordance with standards and project/operational requirements.

• Perform software and firmware installation, configuration, upgrade support and maintenance

• Support user requests for permission changes, file restores, virtual machine restores, new storage, and expansion requests

• Support yearly disaster recovery exercises

• Lead root cause analysis of storage incidents and problems

• Support Linux, Windows and Solaris storage tasks

To qualify, you must meet these basic qualifications: 

• 12 years of enterprise storage management specializing in leading teams using NetApp

• At least 5 years NetApp experience

• NetApp Certified Data Administrator Certification or equivalent relevant experience 

• Must have experience performing OS upgrades, disk & disk shelf firmware upgrades and other related upgrades

• Must experience configuring storage controllers following industry best practice and security baselines

• Knowledge of CIFS, NFS, and FCP design, configuration, administration and best practices

• Experience on tasks such as aggregate creation, volume and LUN provisioning, CIFS & NFS shares and replacement hard disk reassignment

• Experience in analyzing, resolving or recommending solutions to highly complex technical problems such, as security issues, performance issues and reliability issues.

• Experience supporting application storage requirements, testing and implementations

It would be great if you also had:

• Ability to configure optimization, performance, and health monitoring

• Experience managing backup infrastructure; NetBackup version 7 or higher preferred

• Basic understanding of VMware infrastructure specifically datastore provisioning and configuration

• General understanding of networking concepts such as VLAN, trunking, LACP, IP addressing and routing

• Advanced knowledge of file services administration and permissions management and file auditing

• Advanced understanding of Microsoft Windows environment, including Active Directory, DFS Namespace, CIFS file sharing, and windows clustering