Field(s) of expertise
Information Technology
About this job
EMW, Inc., has been awarded a 3-year, $40 million single-award IDIQ contract for the Support Service Contract for Cyber Defence from the NATO NCI Agency.
The NCI Agency delivers secure, coherent, cost-effective and interoperable communications and information systems and services in support of consultation, command & control and enabling intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities for NATO. NCI Agency headquarters is located in Brussels, Belgium, and the agency operates in over 30 locations throughout Europe, North America, and South-East Asia.
Under the contract, EMW will provide a wide range of services throughout the various NCI Agency directorates. The services or “competency areas” include all facets of Cyber Defence.
“We are grateful for this opportunity and our team, comprised of the leading Cyber Defence technology providers across multiple NATO nations, looks forward to providing our expertise to the NATO community” Tony Bui, President, EMW, Inc.
Responsibilities
- Full lifecycle storage, backup, FC, FCoE and iSCSI network engineering: architecture, design, administration, support including storage utilizations / capacity planning and adjusting requirements as well as monitor and audit system utilization, and performance
- Modifications and changes to storage and backup infrastructure / design / configuration by following proper Change Management processes
- Perform daily Storage, Backup Engineer activities including management, zoning, provisioning, troubleshooting, and debugging
- Participate / perform in root cause analysis for significant problems and suggests clear recommendations for improvements
- Schedule, coordinate and lead planned downtimes
- Accurately update comments and status to tickets via ticketing system
- Participate in on-call activities
- May need to work on scheduled maintenances, service-affecting activities and contingency work outside of regular business hours
Profile
- Required Security Clearance: NATO Cosmic Top Secret
Essential Qualifications:
- Master Degree in Engineering or Computer Science and four (4) years experience; or Bachelor Degree in Engineering or Computer Science and six (6) years experience; or Major Certification (e.g. Dell-EMC, NetApp, HPE Storage) and seven (7) year experience; or no degree/certification and eleven (8) years experience.
- Hands-on experience of Dell-EMC Unity, XtremeIO, Data Domain, Avamar (formerly EMC) and NetApp (FAS, AFF, File/Block) storage solutions
- Certification in one or more of following Dell-EMC certifications: DCE-IE (Avamar), DCS-IE (Dell EMC Unity, Data Domain XtremIO, Avamar), DCS-SA (Avamar), DCS-TA (XtremIO)
- Hands-on experience with Dell-EMC and NetApp data management architectures
- Hands-on experience on data replication and data protection technologies on Dell-EMC (Native Synchronous Block Replication, Native Asynchronous Block and File Replication, Dell EMC® RecoverPoint) and/or NetApp (Snapmirror, Snapvault, Snapmanager for SQL / Oracle/Exchange / SharePoint, SnapCenter Suite, VSC)
- Hands-on experience of SAN / NAS Network fundamentals (TCP-IP, FC, FCoE, iSCSI, WWN, WWNP, LIFS)
- Hands-on experience on fabric switches (Brocade and/or Cisco), Fiber Channel (FC) networking
- Hands-on experience with VMware virtual environments
- Hands-on experience on Windows servers, Actıve Directory, DNS
- Able to document current design & configuration and to develop / maintain Standard Operation Procedures / Instructions and training guidance
- ITIL Service Operation knowledge
- Fluent English in both spoken and written.
Desirable Qualifications:
- Certification in NetApp / HPE SAN technologies (NetApp Certified Implementation Engineer – SAN Specialist, ONTAP, NetApp Certified Implementation Engineer – Data Protection Specialist or HPE Master ASE – Storage Solutions Architect V2)
- Experience in using backups tools e.g. Veeam, Comvault, Veritas Netbackup
- Experience on 3Par Storages
- Scripting (Python, Power-Shell, etc.) for Storage Automation or collect data / event from storages
- BMC/ITSM Ticketing system
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