Senior NetApps Storage Architect

Description & Requirements

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MANTECH seeks a motivated, career and customer-oriented Senior NetApps 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 degree in a technical field is required. An additional 5 years of experience in storage operations might be substituted for degree.
• 15+ years' experience in storage operations or storage architecture, with a focus on NetApps.
• 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, 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:

• 20 years' experience in overall storage operations or storage architecture. 10 years of experience in the specific storage technology that is in the customer environment.

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

The projected compensation range for this position is $128,000.00-$214,400.00. There are differentiating factors that can impact a final salary/hourly rate, including, but not limited to, Contract Wage Determination, relevant work experience, skills and competencies that align to the specified role, geographic location (For Remote Opportunities), education and certifications as well as Federal Government Contract Labor categories. In addition, MANTECH invests in its employees beyond just compensation. MANTECH’s benefits offerings include, dependent upon position, Health Insurance, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, Holiday Pay, short-term and long-term Disability, Retirement and Savings, Learning and Development opportunities, wellness programs as well as other optional benefit elections.

MANTECH considers all qualified applicants for employment without regard to disability or veteran status or any other status protected under any federal, state, or local law or regulation.


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