Job Description:

Storage Administrator

Job Locations

US-AL-Huntsville

Overview

i3 is seeking a mid-level Storage Administrator to support an Army Contract. The Storage Admin will provide technical expertise supporting enterprise storage information system and components for a large (10000+) user community. The Storage Administrator must have a customer centric approach and provide all level of support for the technical and cyber team as well as the user base community.

Responsibilities

A successful candidate will:

Perform a full assessment of the storage requirements and environments used throughout AvMC enterprise
• Brief G6 leadership on recommendations, if any, to improve the storage capability throughout AvMC. The strategic plan will include proposed consolidations, locations, required procurements (HW and SW)


• Lead the configuration and sustainment of Isilon, Unity, Data Domain, MSAs, and remaining VNX units. Migrate all data from VNX to Isilon


• Deploy secondary Isilon as replication target for primary Isilon


• Sustain the remaining SAN systems through decommission. Lead the acceleration of decommission.


• Lead the configuration and sustainment of Cohesity. Continue to sustain the Avamar and Quantum backup systems through decommission. Lead the acceleration of decommission and migration to Cohesity.


• Responsible for performing backup restorations when required.


• Familiarity with large scale environments, 10,000+ users, and a firm understanding of impacts of system changes and configuration changes.


• Constant monitoring, reporting, metrics generation. Provide requirements of storage metrics monitoring to Cybersecurity Services and have a storage SOC panel built within Splunk.


• Setup quotas on Home File Folders and Directorate and Project File Folders to maintain storage control; Document process and provide SOPs for enabling quotas and requesting larger quota.


• Automate large-scale data moves and configuration changes using scripts.


• Evaluate and recommend consolidated storage strategies.

Qualifications

• BS preferred.


• 5 years of relevant experience


• Proficiency with the Linux operating system is required. (Linux is the operating system that runs all of the AvMC storage systems.)


• Ability to write scripts using common scripting languages such as PowerShell, JavaScript, Python, Bash, etc.


• DoD 8570 compliant.


• Ability to work with little or no direct supervision and in a team environment.


• Active SECRET Clearance and the ability to maintain such.