Information Technology Senior Consultant 5

Avid Technology Professionals • Laurel, MD

17h

About The Position

This role requires a Senior Consultant with extensive hands-on experience in Information Technology, specifically focusing on storage and backup environments. The ideal candidate will possess deep knowledge of NetApp, SAN, NAS, various storage protocols, capacity planning, performance tuning, and data center migrations. A strong understanding of high availability, hardware concepts, TCP/IP, hypervisor technologies, and security best practices is essential. The position also requires excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to take direction.

Requirements

• Hands-on NetApp experience is a MUST.
• Hands-on engineering experience with NetApp and other storage technologies and concepts (Storage Area Network - SAN & Network Attached Storage - NAS).
• Knowledge and understanding of protocols such as S3, CIFS, NFS, iSCI, and Fiber Channel Block Storage (SAN).
• Experience with capacity planning and sizing storage and backup environments (to include Veritas NetBackup, Cohesity, Rubrik, & CommVault).
• Experience in performance tuning and optimizing storage and backup environments.
• Experience with data center migrations and storage replication technologies.
• Senior-level experience with the design, development, implementation, and maintenance of large-scale systems, preferably across multiple hardware platforms and data centers.
• Strong understanding of high availability concepts with practical experience and implementation of key components in storage environments.
• Strong understanding of fundamental hardware concepts: disk, memory, CPU, NIC, HBA, firmware, RAID, performance concepts (I/O, paging, swapping, system calls), iSCSI, Fiber Channel, Ethernet.
• Strong understanding of essential TCP/IP concepts: TCP, UDP, ICMP, SMTP, SNMP, LDAP, DNS, NTP, etc..
• Experience connecting storage arrays to Hypervisor Technologies (NUTANIX, VMWARE VCF, OpenStack).
• Understanding of security best practices and federal hardening requirements (FISMA, STIG, etc.).
• CompTIA Security+ or similar certification for IAT Level II DoD 8570 compliance.
• Proficient written and oral communication skills.
• Strong collaborative attitude and ability to work in a team environment.
• Ability to take direction.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, implement, and maintain large-scale systems across multiple hardware platforms and data centers.
• Perform hands-on engineering with NetApp and other storage technologies.
• Manage and optimize storage and backup environments, including capacity planning and performance tuning.
• Execute data center migrations and implement storage replication technologies.
• Ensure high availability of storage environments.
• Connect storage arrays to Hypervisor Technologies (NUTANIX, VMWARE VCF, OpenStack).
• Adhere to security best practices and federal hardening requirements (FISMA, STIG, etc.).

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed