Location: Springfield, VA/Arnold, MO

Security Clearance Required: Active TS (SCI eligibility) clearance and eligibility to obtain a CI poly is required upon application for initial consideration **This position is not open for any clearance upgrades or sponsorship.**

Certification Required: CompTIA Security+ or similar for IAT Level II DoD 8570 certification

teKnoluxion provides the Defense and Intelligence Communities technical experts in the fields of Software & Systems Engineering, Enterprise Operations, and Cloud Services Management & Consulting.  Our goal is not to simply support efforts, but to ignite a technology revolution, bridging the growing technology gap between the Government and commercial space. 

Are you ready to test your abilities as a Storage Engineer and team member in a sophisticated enterprise exploitation environment?  Would you like to make an immediate and direct impact in your job? Join a dedicated team supporting the UDS contract at NGA.  

What you get to do every day:

• Design, architect, configure, deploy, upgrade and support various storage and backup platforms and associated management tools.
• Diagnose and troubleshoot storage systems and other related technologies
• Adhere to engineering and architecture standards and participate in technical review meetings as required
• Participate in the evaluation, deployment, management, and integration of new technologies in alignment with other engineers, architects, and technical service lanes
• Incident support and participation in on-call rotation during off hours and weekends
• Create and maintain documentation: logical/physical diagrams, run books and other technical engineering documents
• Consistently demonstrate initiative and commitment to optimizing systems and processes
• Oversee the Installation of new storage hardware and software according to standard operating procedures
• Oversees the updates to hardware, operating systems, and software as needed to provide required functionality and security
• Ensures systems are monitored and statistics relevant to capacity, performance, utilization, etc. are collected and regularly reviewed
• Keeps abreast of current developments in storage and backup technology to assist Federal staff in assessing the future direction of storage and backup technology

Security Clearance Required:  Active TS (SCI eligibility) clearance and eligibility to obtain a CI poly is required upon application for initial consideration **This position is not open for any clearance upgrades or sponsorship.**

Certification Required: CompTIA Security+ or similar for IAT Level II DoD 8570 certification

Education/Experience:

• Requires Bachelor's Degree in Computer Programming, Science, Engineering or a related technical discipline, or the equivalent combination of education, technical training, or work/military experience
• 5+ years of experience

Required Skills:

• Hands on engineering experience with NetApp and other storage technologies and concepts
• Experience with SAN, NAS and iSCSI storage implementations
• Experience with capacity planning and sizing storage and backup environments
• Experience in performance tuning and optimizing storage and backup environments
• Experience with data center migrations and storage replication technologies
• Senior level experience with design, development, implementation and maintenance of large-scale systems, preferably across multiple hardware platforms and data centers
• Strong understanding of high availability concepts with practical experience and implementation of key components in storage environment
• Strong understanding of fundamental hardware concepts:  disk, memory, CPU, NIC, HBA, firmware, RAID, performance concepts (I/O, paging, swapping, system calls), iSCSI, Fiber Channel, Ethernet
• Strong understanding of essential TCP/IP concepts:  TCP, UDP, ICMP, SMTP, SNMP, LDAP, DNS, NTP, etc.
• Understanding of security best practices, federal hardening requirements (FISMA, STIG, etc.)
• Proficient written and oral communication skills
• Strong collaborative attitude and ability to work in a team environment
• Ability to take direction

What is ideal?

• NetApp Certification
• PowerShell/Python scripting experience
• Experience leveraging scripts to audit and enforce configuration standards
• Amazon Web Services / C2S experience
• Experience in technical operations at DOD agencies, particularly NGA and DIA

• Recognizing great achievements do not go unnoticed by teKnoluxion through service anniversaries, spot awards, and employee referral bonuses
• You’ll join a growing organization of passionate, top-shelf, IT engineering professionals with extensive experience in actively developing the technology revolution in the Intelligence community
• Highlights of our benefits include Health/Dental/Vision, 401(k) match and potential Profit Sharing, Universal Leave, STD/LTD/Life Insurance/Voluntary Life Insurance, Stipends, Referral Bonuses, and more!
• Compensation is unique to each candidate and compensation packages are based on education, experience, and other requirements.