What are the responsibilities and job description for the Storage Engineer SME position at DigiFlight?
This role provides technical expertise in storage engineering, administration, and operations. This role maintains enterprise storage infrastructure to ensure proper configuration, availability, performance, capacity, and maintenance (including application of the latest patches and upgrades). This role monitors technology obsolescence, manages upgrades, and evaluates alternatives across on-premises and cloud IT infrastructures, both virtual and physical. This role monitors operations and collects and evaluates metrics to manage storage services and for inclusion into project KPIs and Service Level Agreements (SLA). This individual performs risk assessment, risk mitigation analysis, vendor trade studies, and appropriate documentation to ensure storage services are available according to established Service Level Agreements (SLA). This role ensures continuity of operations including disaster recovery.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Responsible for designing/maintaining fiber channels and network attached SANs
- Performs fiber storage switch administration
- Performs replication strategies (On-Site, Cloud)
- This role is responsible for architecture, design, installation, configuration, administration, support, and maintenance of storage, including associated hardware and cloud resources.
- Duties include updating to new technologies, tuning performance, allocating storage space, and prioritizing the implementation of critical system patches.
- This infrastructure includes on-premises and cloud resources.
- Develop, maintain, and support a mixed storage environment comprising of NetApp FAS2552 or equivalent/ newer equipment and Dell EqualLogic PS6100s or equivalent/ newer equipment.
- Develop, maintain, and support physical and virtual (Hyper-V) Infrastructure environments.
Basic Qualifications:
- Extensive experience with Linux and Windows operating systems
- Extensive experience with Agile development mindset and capable of working in an environment of applied research with an operational analysis focus.
- Extensive ability to develop, sponsor, or support the introduction of new and improved methods, products, procedures, or technologies.
- Extensive experience maintaining a consistently high level of attention to detail.
- Extensive experience comprehending complex technical topics and specialized information.
- Extensive experience with Lights Out Management principles and concepts.
Candidate must be a US Citizen
Candidate must have an active TS/SCI
Candidate must have a MA/MS degree with a minimum of 15 years of experience. This may be substituted with a BS/BA degree and a minimum of 20 years of total experience.
Our People
DigiFlight attracts the most highly skilled workforce to protect some of our nation’s most sensitive systems. Before joining the company, many DigiFlight professionals served our country in a civilian and/or military capacity. Our diverse team provides innovative solutions as they support critical clients in tackling tough challenges. Most importantly, our team is passionate about their work and making a difference.
Our corporate culture promotes a healthy work/life balance.
Our Benefits
DigiFlight’s competitive benefits package allows employees to manage their personal and professional portfolios through a variety of features and programs. Our benefits include:
- Health, Dental, Vision, and Flexible Spending Account
- Paid Time Off (PTO)
- 11 paid holidays
- Tuition Education Assistance
- Professional Development
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Life insurance and short- and long-term disability insurance
- Employee Referral Program
- Marketing Incentive Plans
DigiFlight, Inc. (DFI) is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer. DFI offers a highly competitive, family-oriented benefits package.
