Systems Storage Administration, Advisor

Peraton•Herndon, VA

6d•$104,000 - $166,000•Onsite

About The Position

Peraton is seeking an experienced Storage Administrator to join our national intelligence program in Northern Virginia that delivers engineering, application development, deployment, operations, upgrades and sustainment of products and services to achieve our client’s global missions. This role involves providing technical oversight of hardware and software systems, with a focus on storage area network administration, ensuring system security compliance, and maintaining network standards. The administrator will monitor system utilization, manage data storage, track performance metrics, and ensure reliable backup and recovery processes. Development and maintenance of automated environments for reporting, event notifications, and software updates are also key responsibilities. Proactive capacity planning for additional storage is required, along with allocating storage to servers, configuring fiber channel switches, and performing OS-level support. Coordination and communication of activities, status updates, and outage notifications are essential. The role also includes account maintenance, troubleshooting network communications, and maintaining SAN cabling plans. Installation, configuration, administration, and optimization of servers (hardware and operating systems) are part of the duties. The position requires interfacing with users and maintaining network system documentation. Travel may be required within the National Capital Region (NCR) on an as-needed basis. This position is contingent on contract award.

Requirements

Active Top Secret/ Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) clearance with ability to pass a Poly clearance.
Minimum of 8 years relevant experience with a Bachelor’s degree (Master’s degree and 6 years of relevant experience or PhD with 3 years relevant experience).
4 years of experience may be used in lieu of a degree.
Knowledge of backup software technologies.
Knowledge of storage hardware technologies.
Knowledge of SAN fabric technologies.
US Citizenship is required To hold this clearance.

Nice To Haves

Active TS/SCI with Poly clearance.
Knowledge on backup software technologies: TSM, Netbackup, or Actifio are preferred.
Knowledge on storage hardware technologies: HP storage, Actifio Appliance, or Hitachi are preferred.
Knowledge of SAN fabric technologies: Brocade is preferred.
Knowledge of iSCSI and Fiber Channel infrastructure.
Certifications: NetApp and Vmware.

Responsibilities

Provide technical oversight of hardware and software systems, with a focus on storage area network administration.
Provide professional service within the parameters specified in the site's service level agreement and/or that meet or exceed the customer requirements.
Ensure system security is compliant with customer policy including patching and auditing.
Implement and maintain network standards and guidelines.
Monitor system utilization including data storage management, performance metrics and service levels.
Ensure reliable backup and recovery of necessary data.
Develop and maintain automated environments including reporting, event notifications and actions, software updates and service packs.
Report on capacity and proactively plan for additional storage.
Allocate storage to servers, configuring fiber channel switches, and capacity planning for the SAN, in addition to OS level support related to implementing and maintaining system security and data recovery processes, providing technical support, utilizing automation tools for delivering applications, managing assets, monitoring performance, event notifications and automating desktop support.
Coordinate and communicate activities, status updates, outage notifications and schedule information.
Perform account maintenance.
Ensure reliable backup and recovery of necessary data.
Troubleshoot network communications.
Maintain and document SAN cabling plans.
Installs, configures, administers, and optimizes servers (hardware and operating systems).
Interface with users as an integral part of this role.
Maintain network system documentation.