Platform Storage Engineer – McLean, VA in McLean, Virginia at DCI Solutions

Job Description

• Serve as a Platform Storage Engineer
• Design, deploy, maintain, and secure platform storage infrastructure
• Ensure storage systems meet performance, and availability requirements
• Respond to incidents and service requests related to storage infrastructure
• Perform routine health checks, capacity planning, and performance analysis
• Execute firmware upgrades, patches, and configuration changes as directed

Qualifications:

• BS in Computer Science, IT, or related
• 5+ years of storage engineering experience
• Knowledge of Linux distributions, including
  • User management, security hardening, and system troubleshooting
• Understanding of the following:
  • Fibre Channel, Fibre Channel over Ethernet
  • iSCSI, NFS, SMB/CIFS, NVMe/TCP, NVMe/RoCE
• Experience with ext4, XFS, Btrfs and knowing when to use each
• Knowledge of RAID levels and disk management techniques
• Experience deploying, configuring, and managing SAN and NAS solutions
• Hands-on experience with major vendors like
  • Dell EMC, NetApp, or HPE Nimble
• Experience setting up synchronous/asynchronous data replication for disaster recovery
• Experience using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Zabbix
  • To track performance metrics and identify bottlenecks
• Intermediate scripting experience for automating routine tasks
• Experience with Ansible, Chef, or Puppet to manage storage infrastructure as code
• Experience optimizing NVMe-based systems and managing flash memory performance
• Working knowledge of AWS S3, Azure Blob Storage, Google Cloud Storage
• Familiarity with Ceph, Swift, or other object storage platforms
• Knowledge of Lustre, GPFS/Spectrum Scale
• Travel up to 20% of the time to perform on-site installations and maintenance
• Have current IAM Level II to satisfy DOD 8570 IAT requirements

Required: Active TS/SCI with CI Polygraph Clearance
Job Type: Full-time

Please send your resume to careers@dci-solutions.com

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