Storage & Backup Engineer

IBA InfoTech Inc.

Bethesda, MD, United States

2 months ago

Role details

Contract type

Permanent contract

Employment type

Full-time (> 32 hours)

Experience level

Expert

Experience required

6 years minimum

Working hours

Regular working hours

Job source

ibainfotech.com

Tech stack

Microsoft Windows Apple Mac Systems CentOS Linux RAID EMC NetWorker Fiber Channel over Ethernet Monitoring of Systems InfiniBand Networking Hardware Internet Small Computer System Interface (ISCSI) Microsoft Visio

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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

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