Storage Systems Engineer III

At Agile Defense we know that action defines the outcome and new challenges require new solutions. That’s why we always look to the future and embrace change with an unmovable spirit and the courage to build for what comes next.

Our vision is to bring adaptive innovation to support our nation's most important missions through the seamless integration of advanced technologies, elite minds, and unparalleled agility—leveraging a foundation of speed, flexibility, and ingenuity to strengthen and protect our nation’s vital interests.

Location: Pocatello, ID, Clarksburg, WV, or Huntsville, AL

Overview:

Agile Defense is looking for a Storage Systems Engineer III to support a federal agency by designing, deploying, testing, certifying, patching, and addressing interoperability issues for all features, components, and application dependencies. To include Storage Area Network (SAN), Network Attached Storage (NAS), Fibre Channel, iSCSI, Direct Attached Storge, etc. to meet the needs and support the missions of the agency.  This is a hybrid opportunity.

Clearance:  Active TS Required 

• Minimum of ten (10) years of experience with SAN, NAS, tape, local disk, fibre channel, iSCSI, etc. technologies.
• Design, implement and provide ongoing support of the storage infrastructure.
• Serve as the subject matter expert (SME) for all storage environments.
• Create and maintain storage infrastructure for both bare-metal and virtual machines with the appropriate SAN, network, or local storage configurations, using both OEM and third-party tools that include virtual storage tools and services.
• Provision/configure required storage servers.
• Evaluate, improve, and maintain the information security posture throughout the storage infrastructure.
• Monitor, prevent, and correct all storage issues and create recovery processes for hardware failures and performance bottlenecks and configure alerts for proactive response times.
• Install, configure, test, and maintain system management tools, SAN infrastructure and server plugins with the latest hardware and software patch and firmware versions.
• Proactively ensure the highest levels of systems and infrastructure availability to include verification of the replication of data, fail over copies, redundant data sets.
• Monitor and test application performance for potential bottlenecks, identify possible solutions, and work with developers to implement those fixes.
• Test and maintain security, backup, and redundancy strategies.
• Write and maintain custom scripts to increase system efficiency and lower the human intervention time on any tasks, such as automated provisioning storage with Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).
• Participate in the design of information and operational support systems.
• Provide 4th level support.
• Be a liaison with vendors and other IT personnel for problem resolution.
• Ensure technical documentation exists for all systems and is kept up to date to include inventory and patch levels of all systems to include hostnames, property numbers, IP addresses, enclave, number of cores, number of processors, admin passwords, certificates, and service accounts on a monthly interval.
• Integrate systems with Windows and Linux as it applies to core service dependencies. Engineer and implement solutions for multi factor authentication with FBI standardized software and hardware.
• Document system configurations to include passwords, access controls, version number, and revision numbers, patch levels, and inventory to include hostnames, TCP/IP addresses, number of processors, and number of cores, memory, and license keys.
• Continually transition knowledge to the government staff through training and assistance on how to use the technology using industry best practices.
• Provide real-time reporting of storage provisioned and utilized resources to include performance metrics for disk space consumption, storage availability, performance, and trends.

• Bachelor’s Degree
• A professional storage vendor certification  

Employees of Agile Defense are our number one priority, and the importance we place on our culture here is fundamental. Our culture is alive and evolving, but it always stays true to its roots. Here, you are valued as a family member, and we believe that we can accomplish great things together. Agile Defense has been highly successful in the past few years due to our employees and the culture we create together. 

What makes us Agile? We call it the 6Hs, the values that define our culture and guide everything we do. Together, these values infuse vibrancy, integrity, and a tireless work ethic into advancing the most important national security and critical civilian missions. It's how we show up every day. It's who we are.

We also believe in supporting our employees by offering a competitive and comprehensive benefits package. To explore the benefits we offer, please visit our website under the Careers section.

Happy - Be Infectious.

Happiness multiplies and creates a positive and connected environment where motivation and satisfaction have an outsized effect on everything we do.

Helpful - Be Supportive.

Being helpful is the foundation of teamwork, resulting in a supportive atmosphere where collaboration flourishes, and collective success is celebrated.

Honest - Be Trustworthy.

Honesty serves as our compass, ensuring transparent communication and ethical conduct, essential to who we are and the complex domains we support.

Humble - Be Grounded.

Success is not achieved alone, humility ensures a culture of mutual respect, encouraging open communication, and a willingness to learn from one another and take on any task.

Hungry - Be Eager.

Our hunger for excellence drives an insatiable appetite for innovation and continuous improvement, propelling us forward in the face of new and unprecedented challenges.

Hustle - Be Driven.

Hustle is reflected in our relentless work ethic, where we are each committed to going above and beyond to advance the mission and achieve success.

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