Principal Systems Engineer (Storage & Backup)

TMC Technologies • Pocatello, ID

9d • Onsite

About The Position

TMC is seeking a Principal Systems Engineer (Storage) to support a federal client in Pocatello, Idaho. The role covers the design, deployment, testing, certification, and patching of storage and backup systems, including their features, components, and application dependencies. Technologies include SAN, NAS, tape, local disk, Fibre Channel, and iSCSI. The engineer will address interoperability issues and provide scalable, highly available enterprise storage solutions. Due to federal contract requirements, candidates must be U.S. citizens with an active Top Secret clearance and SCI eligibility. A bachelor's degree is preferred, and at least four years of enterprise infrastructure experience is required.

Requirements

• U.S. citizenship and an active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility.
• At least 4 years of experience supporting enterprise infrastructure; data center experience is preferred.
• Experience supporting highly available enterprise-grade storage arrays and storage networking equipment.
• Experience with NAS/file storage protocols, including SMB/CIFS and NFS v3 and v4.
• Experience with iSCSI and/or Fibre Channel fabric connections to switches and arrays.
• Functional knowledge and experience with Windows Server, Active Directory/LDAP, DNS, NTP, and Kerberos, including their effects on Windows network file system storage access.
• Experience with Windows NTFS security settings, Windows ACLs, and VSS snapshots.
• Experience managing Windows Distributed File System (DFS) for SMB high availability.
• Ability to solve complex infrastructure storage problems that may span multiple disciplines.
• Methodical approach to procedure documentation using Confluence and Microsoft Office.
• Methodical approach to change execution and implementation to avoid risk and downtime in an enterprise environment.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor's degree preferred.
• Deep understanding of RAID and RAID levels, hard disk technology, disk/device tiering (HSM), disk cache, compression, data deduplication, replication, snapshots, and host multipathing.
• Deep understanding of block, file, and object-based storage and their appropriate use cases.
• Linux (RHEL) and/or Unix experience and familiarity with command-line administration.
• Understanding of POSIX OS ACLs and mode bits as they relate to file system permissions.
• Experience configuring and maintaining Brocade and Cisco fabric switches.
• Familiarity with VMware vCenter, vSphere, and vSAN as they relate to thin provisioning and data reduction.
• Familiarity with VMware VMFS and vVols.
• Storage-focused certification from SNIA or a vendor such as EMC, NetApp, or Pure.
• Experience with Ansible and/or infrastructure-as-code techniques.
• Shell scripting knowledge, including PowerShell, bash, Python, or Perl.
• Knowledge of working with REST APIs in scripts.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, test, certify, and patch storage and backup systems and their components and application dependencies.
• Address storage interoperability issues across technologies including SAN, NAS, tape, local disk, Fibre Channel, and iSCSI.
• Develop scalable solutions using requirements-based engineering.
• Support highly available enterprise storage arrays and storage networking equipment.
• Manage Windows Distributed File System (DFS) for SMB high availability.
• Perform file-based data migrations using tools such as Robocopy and rsync.
• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure storage problems that may span multiple disciplines.
• Document procedures methodically using Confluence and the Microsoft Office suite.
• Execute and implement changes methodically to avoid risk and downtime in an enterprise environment.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal