Sr. Storage Administrator

Sr. Storage Administrator

CGI Federal is looking for a Sr. Storage Administrator to help support a program we are working on for the Army's PL ALTESS contract. PL ALTESS, or Product Lead for Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology Enterprise Systems and Services, is a key U.S. Army organization providing IT services and support to the Army and Department of Defense. As a managed service provider, ALTESS delivers infrastructure, platform, and application services across data centers and commercial clouds. It plays a crucial role in modernizing IT systems by migrating them to the cloud and managing mission-critical applications to ensure Army readiness. ALTESS oversees IT service delivery across various hosting locations, aligning with Department of Defense digital transformation strategies as part of PEO Enterprise. This position is located in Radford, VA.

This position is for a Senior Storage Administrator for a mixed and growing environment of various storage HW. This position will work with the existing OS and Storage teams to manage, maintain, deploy, troubleshoot, and support servers and storage systems for ALTESS and its customers. This position will assist with implementing new system HW and SW and provide input for developing local operating procedures and policies as needed. This position will need to be adept at monitoring the ongoing operation of the systems and providing utilization reports using existing tools to identify problems and corrective actions as needed. This position will also need to be able to recommend, demonstrate, and implement technologies to help expand, upgrade, and increase efficiencies to the current environment.

Required qualifications to be successful in this role include: a) CompTIA Security+. b) Computing Environment (CE) Certification (i.e., MCSE, Server+, CCNA, RedHat, Palo, etc.) – can be waived for 30 days after project join date. c) Active DoD Secret Security Clearance. d) Experience in Computer Science or IT. e) Three or more years' experience in design, installation, configuration, security, and maintenance of highly available enterprise data storage systems. f) Three or more years' experience maintain storage and network policies and standards. g) Three or more years' experience refreshing data from one environment to another at the request of the application development staff. h) Three or more years' experience creating, maintaining, following Standard Operating Procedures for repeatable processes, disaster recovery, and common problem resolution. i) Three or more years' experience with MS-Windows, Solaris, and RHEL/OEL Linux environments. j) Three or more years' experience administering applicable storage networks. k) Three or more years' experience with VMWare 7.x or greater. l) Three or more years' experience with network communication (IP based). m) Installation and configuration experience of backup SW with Windows Server 2019, Solaris 11, RedHat Enterprise Linux 7 and higher. n) Experience with both Windows Powershell and Bash shell scripting. o) Strong CLI skills. p) Strong interpersonal skills and willing to be a team player.

Desired qualifications/non-essential skills required: a) Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent years of experience. b) Three or more years' experience supporting Cybersecurity patch management and Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIG), SRG, RMF, SCA-V, and Cyber Operational Readiness Assessments (CORA).