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Storage Administrator - Secret Clearance
Stennis, MSStrategic Business Systems is seeking a Storage Administrator to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals. This is part of a team that ensures the customer's ability to provide mission-critical intelligence and successful use of its information technology (IT) networks worldwide.
This role is onsite at John C. Stennis Space Center, Mississippi
Required Security Clearance: Current and active DoD Secret or above
Required Certifications: Must meet DoD 8570 IAT Level II certification requirements (Security +) AND one of the below NetApp Certifications:
Top 3 skills in order of importance:
Job Summary
As a Professional Services Consultant, you will be directly engaged with and supporting multiple NetApp customers by deploying, implementing, and integrating various technical architectures that deliver the highest value of our NetApp solutions within the customer’s operational environment. In this role, you will be expected to position, deliver, and implement various NetApp solutions and other advanced consulting services within diverse customer environments. You will work closely with the sales team to present solutions to the customer’s unique requirements in addition to working with other services personnel in deploying solutions within operational production customer environments. This position requires a dynamic, hard-working and ambitious individual, with good verbal and written communication skills. Consulting experience with strong customer interaction skills is a must.
Job Requirements
Experienced technology consultant with significant level of hands-on field experience. Deploy post-sales hardware and software solutions with medium level complexity. Coordinate with senior customer representatives and Sales teams in the performance of daily tasks. Solid foundation with NetApp, IT infrastructure, applications, and Cloud services, providing the ability to quickly become a Subject Matter Expert in these areas:
The qualified candidate has experience with many of the following hardware platforms, OS, protocols, technologies, and solutions:
Education and Certifications:
EEO Disclaimer
SBS is an equal opportunity employer; all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, gender, gender identification, sex, sexual orientation, color, race, creed, national origin, religion, marital status, parental status, citizenship status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, military status, or any other classification protected by federal, state, or local laws.
Accommodations
If you need an accommodation seeking employment with SBS, please email hr@sbsplanet.com . Accommodations are made on a case-by-case basis.
This role is onsite at John C. Stennis Space Center, Mississippi
Required Security Clearance: Current and active DoD Secret or above
Required Certifications: Must meet DoD 8570 IAT Level II certification requirements (Security +) AND one of the below NetApp Certifications:
- NetApp Certified Technology Solutions Professional
- NetApp Certified Data Administrator (NCDA)
- NetApp Certified Storage Installation Engineer
Top 3 skills in order of importance:
- AFF
- StorageGrid
- Object Storage
Job Summary
As a Professional Services Consultant, you will be directly engaged with and supporting multiple NetApp customers by deploying, implementing, and integrating various technical architectures that deliver the highest value of our NetApp solutions within the customer’s operational environment. In this role, you will be expected to position, deliver, and implement various NetApp solutions and other advanced consulting services within diverse customer environments. You will work closely with the sales team to present solutions to the customer’s unique requirements in addition to working with other services personnel in deploying solutions within operational production customer environments. This position requires a dynamic, hard-working and ambitious individual, with good verbal and written communication skills. Consulting experience with strong customer interaction skills is a must.
Job Requirements
Experienced technology consultant with significant level of hands-on field experience. Deploy post-sales hardware and software solutions with medium level complexity. Coordinate with senior customer representatives and Sales teams in the performance of daily tasks. Solid foundation with NetApp, IT infrastructure, applications, and Cloud services, providing the ability to quickly become a Subject Matter Expert in these areas:
- Implementation of backup and restore, disaster recovery, storage consolidation, data protection, storage performance, etc.
- Optimization including upgrades, performance monitoring, and system audit tasks.
- Follow appropriate escalation guidelines, as required, during customer engagements.
- Exposure to and understanding of a variety of integrated technologies/concepts in a distributed environment.
- Comply with all customer security and operational requirements in the performance of tasks.
- Excellent verbal and written communications skills are essential to interface with mid-to-senior level management and technical teams, architects, systems administrators, and senior operations managers.
- Ability to work collaboratively with other engineers, consultants, and Project Managers in a team environment to meet aggressive goals, achieve high quality standards, and share best practices.
- Ability to take lead as technical expert when working with customers’ senior technical representatives to design, architect and implement the best solution to meet and exceed customers’ requirements and expectations.
- Ability to understand the customers’ business requirements and relate their requirements to technical solutions.
- Perform system health checks, monitor alerts, and take appropriate and timely actions as required.
- May require limited off hours work (nights and weekends).
The qualified candidate has experience with many of the following hardware platforms, OS, protocols, technologies, and solutions:
- NetApp FAS, AFF, E-Series, and FlexPod Converged Infrastructure solutions
- Core experience with ONTAP 9.x, SANtricity, and StorageGRID
- Cabling systems, upgrading ONTAP versions
- Storage Protocols/SVM configuration: CIFS, NFS, Object, iSCSI, FC/FCoE
- Data Protection: Snapshots, SnapMirror, SnapVault, Fabric Pool
- System Manager, OnCommand Unified Manager, Active IQ Unified Manager
- Storage Provisioning of Aggrs, Vols, LUNs, RAID knowledge and configuration
- Data Migrations: VMs, CIFS, vol moves etc.
- NFS Export Policies
- VMware (thorough knowledge of hypervisor and features)
- Core networking and switch knowledge ensuring proper configurations with NetApp FAS, AFF, & FlexPod solutions
- Cisco UCS configuration and operations
- Troubleshooting storage access issues (i.e. CIFS access, lost datastore access, etc.)
Education and Certifications:
- A Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science or other Information Technology related field and a minimum of 3 - 5 years of relevant experience; OR equivalent combination of education/certifications/training and relevant years of professional work experience required.
EEO Disclaimer
SBS is an equal opportunity employer; all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, gender, gender identification, sex, sexual orientation, color, race, creed, national origin, religion, marital status, parental status, citizenship status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, military status, or any other classification protected by federal, state, or local laws.
Accommodations
If you need an accommodation seeking employment with SBS, please email hr@sbsplanet.com . Accommodations are made on a case-by-case basis.