EDSS Systems Engineer

We are currently seeking an EDSS Systems Engineer to support our federal customer in Washington, DC.  THIS POSITION IS CONTINGENT UPON TASK ORDER AWARD.  The Mid-level Systems Engineer will work directly with the Enterprise Operations & Facilities (EO&F), Enterprise Storage & Data Protection (ESDP) Branch performing the following duties:• Configuration, allocation, and management of the Storage infrastructure.• Monitor and ensure successful operation of the House Storage Infrastructure• Integration and operations for complex systems in an enterprise data center environment• Perform Data protection and disaster recovery support for Enterprise-level Servers andapplications.

Support BCDR functions and perform data failover/failback,• Enterprise data migration and data replication• Analyze events, alerts, logs, troubleshoot, Problem solving, makes sound judgement,ability to assess impact on upstream and downstream components, capacity planning,trending and technical support• Creating and/or providing inputs towards SAN/NAS storage system documentation andstatus reports including but not limited to After Action Reports, Standard OperatingProcedures, System Baseline Change Requests and Configuration Management Plans.Create and update standard operating procedures, technical documentation and followChange management procedures• Recommends and advocates for additional data and services needed to address businessissues• Customer Service and coordination with Client and customers. Effective communication,both orally and in writing, with senior staff, information systems professionals and the nontechnicaluser community.Solicitation Document No.: OAM24071SDocument Title: EDSS Systems Engineer• Incumbent will be able to support Project tasks and provide assistance in planning,designing, and evaluating hardware and software; Provide recommendations to enhanceand improve the Enterprise Data Storage Systems as a whole.

Conduct Proof of concepts.• Position requires the ability to work shifts to provide support 24 hours a day, 7 days aweek, participate in an On-Call rotation and available OnDemand to address technicalproblems.System Engineer contractor will provide for the augmentation of the current Enterprise DataStorage Systems (EDSS) Team in support of daily operations and maintenance with a focus onEnterprise SAN, NAS Storage systems deployment and administration and providing data storageand protection services to Member offices, Committees, enterprise messaging, financial systems,vendor servers, CAO servers, databases, and application servers.This mid-level engineer will serve full-time, approximately 2000 hours per year, to assist EO&Fwith system administration activities relating to the expanding and evolving House Enterprise DataStorage Systems infrastructure consisting of over 4 PBs of primary storage. This includes, but is notlimited to, managing the Enterprise Data storage Systems (EDSS) environment, supporting capacityplanning, providing performance, trending analyses, advanced troubleshooting, assisting with newtechnology integration and research. The required duration for this support is a base period of oneyear and two option years. Candidates submitted for this position should be flexible enough to worka diversified schedule at all House data center locations, via telework, (at the discretion andapproval of the House) and participate in 24/7 On-Call technical support under a rotating shiftpattern

· Minimum qualifications include 6 years of relevant experience, on enterprise data storagesystems, a Bachelor’s degree in the related field or the equivalent combination of educationand work experience.· Candidates must be able to secure and maintain Federal Government security clearances asdeemed appropriate by management.

• SAN and NAS Storage Performance and Capacity Tools and reports• SAN Storage: Fiber Channel SANs, NVMe, FCoE, FCIP, Block• NAS File Storage Implementation, Administration and Operations support.• NAS File Storage protocols (CIFS, NFS and Mixed protocols file shares) Implementations,Administration and support• NetApp SVM and Windows File Server roles administration and support• Expert knowledge in managing, modifying, applying and fixing Windows NTFS Folderand File permissions, access, ACLs on Active Directory Groups and Users• Object Storage: On-premises Object storage on NetApp, Pure Flash Blade, Cloud StorageAzure/AWS S3.• Pure Storage Arrays Administration- Flash Array X and C Series, Flash Blade• NetApp Storage Arrays Administration – AFF and FAS models• SAN and NAS Storage Administration, Operations and support – Storage provisioning,allocations, modifications and reclamations, Usage of Command Line interface• Storage Area Network Switches Installation, Administration and Support of Cisco MDS9000 Multilayer switches• Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller, Fabric Manager & Device ManagerNDFC/DCNM/DCFM, Cisco NX-OS, Command Line interface• SAN Fabric Implementation and Administration of Core-Edge Switches, Zone Databaseand zones sets maintenance, Zone create, modify and deletes.• Deployment of tools and appliances for observability, monitoring performance andcapacity, Generation of Storage system reports and metrics collection• Configure and manage Data Security, Systems and User auditing on SAN and NAS storagesystems• Cloud Implementations, Connectors and Cloud integration of On-premises Storage arrays• Configure and support Cloud solutions and storage services: AWS FSx, Backup and BCDRto cloud using AWS, Azure,• Automation of Storage administration tasks and jobs using, AI, PowerShell, Ansible andShell scripts• Data Protection technologies/software – Configure/setup data protection and recovery, datareplication between On-premises and Cloud, array snapshots, active cluster and metroclustersSolicitation Document No.: OAM24071SDocument Title: EDSS Systems EngineerPage | 5• Data Protection using Backups and Archive software, preferably using Commvaultappliances and IntelliSnap.• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to troubleshoot and resolve SAN and NASStorage technical problems in a data center environment.Desirable Skills include:• Knowledge of VMware - ESX Cluster Servers, vSphere, vCenter, OpenShift• Understanding of cloud technologies• Understanding of IT security and encryption technologies• Knowledge of BCDR procedures and functions, Sync and Async Data replication• Knowledge of Server infrastructure and Operating systems- Dell, HP Blade Frames,Chassis, & HCI, Virtual Interconnect connect switch hardware and network connectivity,Basic Red Hat Linux and Windows Servers administration• Knowledge of Data center layout, designs, Fiber cable management.• Knowledge of Hybrid, private and public clouds, Container technology such as Kubernetes& Dockers• Knowledge of Persistent storage types, storage classes, PV, PVCs, CSI for Kubernetescontainerized applications using block, file and object storage.• Knowledge of Active/Active configurations and host multi pathing• Knowledge of Storage systems security• Knowledge of Unix vi editor, PowerShell, shell scripting and job automationFM Talent Source is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.

All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.