Data Center Storage Engineer

3 weeks ago


Kuwait City, Al Asimah Vectrus Full time
Overview

Working across the globe, V2X builds smart solutions designed to integrate physical and digital infrastructure from base to battlefield. We bring 120 years of successful mission support to improve security, streamline logistics, and enhance readiness. Aligned around a shared purpose, our $3.9B company and 16,000 people work alongside our clients, here and abroad, to tackle their most complex challenges with integrity, respect, responsibility, and professionalism.

Data Center Storage Engineers support the enterprise storage infrastructure for all sites within the RCC-SWA Area of Responsibility and provide optimization, administration and technical documentation for the enterprise storage infrastructure. DCSEs resolve enterprise-level change requests and act as the top-level of support escalation for all enterprise storage support issues. Principal technical areas include NetApp, EMC, VMware, Windows DFS, Cisco UCS and other related storage, virtualization, networking, and monitoring technologies.

This position offers company-paid housing and transportation, a completion bonus and tuition reimbursement program

You must satisfy all host country requirements to legally work in the host country in order to be qualified for this position.

Responsibilities
  • Enterprise-level support for NetApp CIFS, NFS, iSCSI and FC/FCoE storage presented to a wide array of systems including VMware ESXi, Unix, and Linux clients as well as Windows file services and desktop clients. Periodic reports on storage capacity and utilization as well as system uptime and performance. Top-tier support for escalated issues and complex projects. Daily monitoring of all enterprise storage for integrity, reliability, resource utilization and availability. Log review and issue reporting related to monitoring of temperature and overall storage health throughout the SWA AOR.
  • Experienced with VMware storage requirements, configuration, and provisioning. Proficient in planning, installation, configuration, and upgrades of the NetApp storage infrastructure. The top-tier of support for storage projects and solutions for backup, disaster recovery, consolidation/de-duplication, data protection, performance, upgrades, and system audit tasks.
  • Documentation for Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) for configuring and managing storage, storage networks, and physical disks as well as data protection, access control, resource monitoring and management, storage high availability, fault tolerance and scalable storage infrastructure.
  • The work environment will be 95% indoors and 5% outdoors.
  • Perform additional duties as assigned.
Qualifications
  • Qualifications:
  • Education / Certifications: One-year related experience can be substituted for one year of education if the degree is required.
    • Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience preferably in Computer Science or MIS, IS, Engineering or related field.
    • This position requires candidates to adhere to DoD 8570.01. All candidates are required to maintain at least one (1) baseline certification and one (1) computing environment (CE) certification. Baseline certifications cannot also be used as a Computing Environment (CE) certification. The authorized certifications for this job title are listed as follows:
  • IAT Level: IAT III
  • BASELINE:
    • Cisco: CCNP: Certified Network Professional - Security
    • CompTIA: CASP+ ce: Advanced Security Practitioner
    • GIAC: GCED: Certified Enterprise Defender
    • GIAC: GCIH: Certified Incident Handler
    • ISACA: CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor
    • ISC2: CCSP: Certified Cloud Security Professional
    • ISC2: CISSP (or Associate): Certified Information Systems Security Professional
  • COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT (CE):
    • CNFDS: Cisco and NetApp Flexpod Design Specialist
    • CNFIAS: Cisco and NetApp Flexpod Implementation and Administration Specialist
    • NetApp: NCDA: Certified Data Administrator, ONTAP
    • NetApp: NCHCA: Certified Hybrid Cloud Administrator
    • NetApp: NCHCA: Certified Hybrid Cloud Architect
    • NetApp: NCIE-DPS: Certified Implementation Engineer - Data Protection Specialist
    • NetApp: NCIE-O-S: Certified Implementation Engineer, ONTAP Specialist
    • NetApp: NCIE-SAN: Certified Implementation Engineer - SAN Specialist, ONTAP
    • NetApp: NCIE-SS: Certified Implementation Engineer - SAN Specialist, E-Series
    • NetApp: NCSE: Certified Storage Engineer
    • NetApp: NCSIE: Certified Storage Installation Engineer, ONTAP
    • VMware: VCP: Certified Professional (7 and above)
    • VMware: VCAP-DCV: Certified Advanced Professional - Data Center Virtualization (Deploy)
    • VMware: VCAP-DCV: Certified Advanced Professional - Data Center Virtualization (Design)
    • VMware: VCDE: Certified Design Expert
    • VMware: VCDX-DCV: Certified Design Expert - Data Center Virtualization
  • Experience: One year of related academic study above the high school level may be substituted for one year of experience up to a maximum of a 4-year bachelor's degree in a Software Engineering or Business Information Systems discipline for three years general experience.
    • At least five years of practical experience working with various data (network and system) technologies.
    • Candidate must have a working knowledge of CIFS, NFS, FC and iSCSI protocols.
    • Hands on experience with NetApp On-Command System Manager and Data ONTAP command-line interface (CLI).
    • Must have NetApp configuration and administration experience and understands NetApp replication technologies.
    • Experienced with FC/SAN switches and directors.
    • Experienced with NetApp Data ONTAP configuration and tuning.
    • Experienced with regular storage capacity planning and reporting.
  • Skills & Technology Used:
    • Ability to troubleshoot servers and infrastructure equipment, assess networking requirements and provide solutions, and make accurate and independent decisions under pressure.
    • Excellent organizational, interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills.
    • Ability to perform comfortably in a fast-paced, deadline-oriented work environment and to successfully execute many complex tasks simultaneously.
    • Working knowledge of server, storage, and desktop virtualization technologies.
    • Working knowledge with vSphere client, ESXCLI, and PowerCLI.
    • Ability to configure and administer VMware vSphere 7.0 +.
    • Ability to manage Cisco UCS, C-series, and B-series servers.
    • Understands virtualization capacity planning and reporting.
At V2X, we are deeply committed to both equal employment opportunity, including protection for Veterans and individuals with disabilities, and fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace. We ensure all individuals are treated with fairness, respect, and dignity, recognizing the strength that comes from a workforce rich in diverse experiences, perspectives, and skills. This commitment, aligned with our core Vision and Values of Integrity, Respect, and Responsibility, allows us to leverage differences, encourage innovation, and expand our success in the global marketplace, ultimately enabling us to best serve our clients.
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