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Maxar Technologies · 3 months ago

Storage Engineer

Westminster, CO

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level

$90K/yr - $150K/yr

5+ years exp

Maxar Technologies is seeking an experienced Storage Engineer to support the development and integration of various intelligence. This hybrid role involves managing enterprise storage systems and ensuring high availability and disaster recovery across multiple data centers.

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No H1B

Security Clearance Required

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Design, deploy, automate, and manage enterprise storage systems, ensuring high availability, redundancy, and disaster recovery capabilities across multiple data centers and physical sites, including SAN, NAS, and local object store

Configure, monitor, and optimize storage solutions to meet performance, capacity, and scalability requirements while minimizing downtime and ensuring data integrity

Perform regular infrastructure assessments, updates, and patches on storage systems to ensure optimal performance, security, and compliance with industry best practices and organizational standards

Troubleshoot storage-related issues, including performance bottlenecks, connectivity issues, and data access problems, utilizing root cause analysis techniques

Develop and maintain documentation related to storage architecture, procedures, and configurations, ensuring compliance with industry standards and organizational policies

Evaluate and recommend new storage technologies and solutions to enhance system performance, efficiency, and scalability, keeping up to date with emerging trends and vendor offerings

Support security initiatives to protect enterprise storage systems, ensuring compliance with applicable security policies, regulations, and best practices

Perform regular maintenance activities to ensure the stability and security of storage platforms. i.e., patching, standard changes, disk swaps, etc

Continually watch alerts and dashboards for performance and issues. Act accordingly to maintain reliability of storage platforms

Develop and maintain documentation related to storage architectures, processes, and procedures

Participate in on-call rotation and provide tier-3 support for critical storage-related incidents

Qualification

Storage engineeringSAN/NAS managementISCSI/NFS/SMB/CIFSCloud storage servicesPerformance metricsSecurity practicesAutomationTroubleshooting skillsCommunication skillsTeam collaborationDocumentation

Required

Eight (5) years' experience in storage operations / storage engineering

Bachelor of Science (BS) Degree from an accredited university in a technical field is required. Five (5) additional years of experience in storage operations may be considered in lieu of degree

Experience in overall IT infrastructure, storage engineering, storage systems, and systems architecture

Minimum of 5 years' related experience with IC and/or DoD systems

Experience with full life cycle storage administration, architecture, and support including storage utilizations, capacity planning and adjusting storage requirements

Deep understanding of protocols like iSCSI, NFS, SMB/CIFS, Fibre Channel, and object storage (S3, Swift)

Strong understanding of performance metrics (i.e.. IOPS, Latency, throughput)

Experience in a high-performance environment including low latency database

Knowledge in security and data encryption methods and practices

Excellent troubleshooting skills and a methodical approach to problem-solving

Strong communication skills and ability to work collaboratively in a team environment

Must be a U.S. citizen and be able to obtain U.S. Government security clearance

Preferred

Experience with working providing storage for virtual environments

Knowledge of cloud storage services (Netapp StorageGrid AWS S3/EBS, Azure Blob Storage, Google Cloud Storage) and hybrid architectures

Proficiency with RedHat and Windows administration

Demonstrated knowledge of a broad range of technologies beyond storage, i.e.: virtualization, networking, data management/migration, security, and disaster recovery

Strong background in automation

Must meet DoD 8570 IAT Level II requirements including one of the following: Security+ CE, CND, SSCP, GSEC, GICSP, CySA+, or CCNA Security

Top Secret SCI with a CI Polygraph