Senior Storage Engineer

Overview

Empower AI is AI for government. Empower AI gives federal agency leaders the tools to elevate the potential of their workforce with a direct path for meaningful transformation. Headquartered in Reston, Va., Empower AI leverages three decades of experience solving complex challenges in Health, Defense, and Civilian missions. Our proven Empower AI Platform® provides a practical, sustainable path for clients to achieve transformation that is true to who they are, what they do, how they work, with the resources they have. The result is a government workforce that is exponentially more creative and productive. For more information, visit www.Empower.ai.

Empower AI is proud to be recognized as a 2024 Military Friendly Employer by Viqtory, the publisher of G.I. Jobs. This designation reflects the company’s commitment to hiring and supporting active-duty and veteran employees.

Responsibilities

SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR IV

• Responsible for high-level, day-to-day operational maintenance, support, and upgrades for complex operating systems, workstations and servers
• Coordinates, directs and performs complex software installations and upgrades to operating systems and layered software packages
• Schedules installations and upgrades and maintains them in accordance with established IT policies and procedures
• Continually monitors and tunes multiple systems to achieve optimum performance levels
• Interpret and/or discuss information with others, which involves terminology or concepts not familiar to many people; regularly provide advice and recommend actions involving rather complex issues
• May resolve problems within established practices
• Ensures workstation/server data integrity by evaluating, implementing, and managing appropriate software and hardware solutions of varying complexities
• Ensures data/media recoverability by developing and implementing a schedule of system backups and database archive operations
• Plans and implements the modernization of servers
• Develops, implements and promotes standard operating procedures and schedules
• Conducts hardware and software audits of workstations and servers to ensure compliance with established standards, policies, and configuration guidelines
• Develops and implements new standards, policies and procedures
• Works closely with Network and Systems Analysts to help determine and develop the systems that will be implemented

Leads and directs work of lower level Systems Administrators

Qualifications

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

• A minimum of 10 years of experience in Storage Administration specifically including:
  • NetApp storage systems experience; that includes experience with NetApp systems administration support for large scale Windows/UNIX/Linux environments.
  • 10 years of experience installing and configuring NetApp storage systems.
  • 10 years of experience writing scripts with a scripting language
  • 5 years of experience using OCI
  • 5 years of experience in managing FlexPod integration with NetApp storage
  • 2 years of experience with AWS On-Premise and AWS migrations
  • Familiarity with DevOps and ITIL processes

PREFERRED EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent related experience

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

The physical demands described below are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.  While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to do the following:

• Communicate verbally and respond to verbal communications in person and over the phone
• Communicate clearly and succinctly in writing, primarily utilizing a keyboard
• Engage in intermittent physical activity, including bending, reaching, lifting, filing, and prolonged periods of sitting
• Travel minimally, via car or plane, which requires ability to manage luggage, laptop, and briefing materials (up to 25 pounds)

About Empower AI

All hiring and promotion decisions at Empower AI are based on merit to bring the best talent available to contribute to our firm’s overall success. It is the policy of Empower AI not to discriminate against any applicant for employment, or employee because of age, color, sex, disability, national origin, race, religion, or veteran status. Empower AI is a VEVRAA Federal Contractor.