Storage & Backup Engineer
IBA InfoTech Inc.
Bethesda, United States of America
31 days ago
Role details
Contract type
Permanent contract Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours) Working hours
Regular working hours Languages
English Experience level
SeniorJob location
Bethesda, United States of America
Tech stack
Microsoft Windows
Apple Mac Systems
CentOS
Linux
RAID
EMC NetWorker
Fibre Channel over Ethernet
Monitoring of Systems
InfiniBand
Networking Hardware
Internet Small Computer System Interface (ISCSI)
Microsoft Visio
Nagios
Network File Systems
Oracle Applications
Performance Tuning
Samba (Software)
SAS (Software)
SQL Databases
Tape Libraries
Virtualization Technology
Backup and Restore
Load Balancing
CheckMK
Enterprise Portal
Software Troubleshooting
Storage Technologies
Information Technology
Performance Monitor
Wikis
Isilon
Multiplatform
Cisco networks
Job description
- Responsible for configuration, layout and performance tuning of storage infrastructure.
- Responsible for storage infrastructure system management including capacity planning, snapshots, performance monitoring/ tuning, security management, etc
- Provide infrastructure support for projects including planning, installations, configurations, and upgrades; work with requisite teams to ensure smooth project deployments through completion
- Plan, recommend and implement strategies around attached storage and load balancing
- Setup and maintain fiber channel switches
- Insure backups are in place using EMC Networker configured with EMC Data Domain and Quantum i6000 tape library as target storage
- Participate and adhere to change management processes
- Customer Service Focus; experience discerning/ balancing business need (support Science) with allied enterprise reliability and "up-time" requirements. Resolve escalated ticket issues, collaborating with desktop support services; manage/ provide Tier-2/3 assistance following incident management best practices (ITIL)
- Design and implement disaster recovery plans; implement associated backups (EMC NetWorker)
- Actively monitor IT maintained systems with monitoring tools such as Check_mk and Nagios
- Work with datacenter team to connect Rack/ stack servers and network equipment to NIH network
- Participate in technical cross-functional meetings
Requirements
- BS or equivalent and nine years related experience or a MS and seven years related experience
- Minimum of six years IT experience (to include a minimum of four years storage / backup)
- Solid hands-on experience with EMC Isilon
- In depth understanding of protocols to include NFS and SAMBA
- Experience with Data Domain for backup, RAID Inc, Brocade and Cisco technologies for SAN
- Excellent documentation capabilities (such as using Visio and portal applications such as wiki)
- Working knowledge of Linux (Scientific Linux, CentOS), Windows, and OSX multi-platform operating systems
- Strong troubleshooting abilities
- In depth understanding of one or more storage technology fields (Fiber Channel SAN, SAS, iSCSI, or FCoE) as well high speed interconnects (InfiniBand, 10GigE, etc)
- Understanding of virtualized environments