Senior Storage Architect

MANTECH seeks a motivated, career and customer-oriented Senior Storage Architect to join our team in Laurel, MD.

Join Mantech’s mission-focused national security team delivering enterprise infrastructure capabilities for a global workforce. This role will support the Intelligence Community’s Enterprise Information Technology (EIT) platform in Maryland. This role supports infrastructure associated with Data Center & Computing Services, Integrated Product Teams (IPT), and vendors to deliver services to Mantech’s customers in the IC.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to the following:

• Design, architect, configure, deploy, upgrade, and support various storage and backup platforms and associated management tools.
• Participate in the evaluation, deployment, management, and integration of new technologies in alignment with other engineers, architects, and technical service lanes.
• Provides technical leadership and is responsible for the development of new storage infrastructure and Information Lifecycle Management designs, including requirements and analysis.
• Shares ownership of the operational responsibility for storage provisioning and availability at government customer site with the Customer/Government Storage Manager.
• Keep abreast of current developments in storage and backup technology to assist Federal staff in assessing the future direction of storage and backup technology.
• Responsible for the delivery of the technical architectural design, strategies and plans that will be delivered on an ongoing basis.
• Create and maintain documentation: logical/physical diagrams, run books, and other technical engineering documents.
• Performs end-to-end analysis on the performance of the storage infrastructure, presents findings, and submits recommendations for improvement.

 Minimum/Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Science (BS) Degree from accredited university in either: Computer Science, Information Systems, Systems Engineering or related field is required.
• 20 years' experience in storage operations or storage architecture
• Experience with SAN, NAS, Fiber Channel and iSCSI storage implementations.
• Proven proficiency in storage solutions including but not limited to block, nfs, sif, s3, sharefile systems, and nas.
• Strong understanding of fundamental hardware concepts: disk, memory, CPU, NIC, HBA, firmware, RAID, performance concepts (I/O, paging, swapping, system calls), iSCSI, Fiber Channel, or Ethernet.
• Experience connecting storage arrays to Hypervisor Technologies (NUTANIX, VMWARE VCF, OpenStack).
• IAM II certification (DoD 8140 required upon start of employment.  Acceptable certifications include
  CCNA-Security/CySA+/GICSP/GSEC/Security+ CE/CND/SSCP)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong understanding of essential TCP/IP concepts: TCP, UDP, ICMP, SMTP, SNMP,LDAP, DNS, NTP, etc.
• Understanding of security best practices and federal hardening requirements (FISMA,STIG, etc.)
• 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
• Keep abreast of current developments in storage and backup technology to assist Federal staff in assessing the future direction of storage and backup technology

Clearance Requirements:

• Must have a current active Top Secret/SCI with Polygraph

Physical Requirements:

• Sedentary work, speaking, standing, talking, walking, working with computers, working with data, working with numbers and figures, ability to handle stress & work under pressure, ability to use MS Office and a PC, analytical or critical thinking skills, leadership and listening skills, multi-tasking, ability, negotiating skills, oral & written communication skills, presentation skills, project management ability and skills, computer operating skills, and team building skills