TekSynap
The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) was established as a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 1962. The NICHD mission is to lead research and training to understand human development, improve reproductive health, enhance the lives of children and adolescents, and optimize abilities for all.
Components of the NICHD have differing environments and needs. Operating environments include UNIX, Linux, Windows, and MAC. Similarly, software for system operation, management, and application support varies among divisions.
We are seeking a
Storage Management and Administration
personnel to perform various activities to support the success of the team in providing quality IT services to NICHD. FUNCTIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES: Develop capacity planning strategy to manage business as usual growth that would occur during the migration windows. Plan project and manage SAN integration into existing server environment (production, test, and development). Engage in performance management, fine-tuning. Manage critical incidents via coordination of international teams supporting various storage, backup, application and server technologies. Create and configure both NFS and SMB shares and relate user permissions. Establish storage standards team for the creation of standard system builds and repeatable processes. Create and implement customized disaster recovery procedures. Design a backup and recovery strategy, disaster recovery solutions, logical recovery strategies, fault tolerant solutions. ADDITIONAL KNOWLEDGE AREAS PREFERRED: Dell Storage Specialist certification or equivalent is preferred. Hands-on experience migrating on-prem infrastructure to the Cloud is preferred. Prefer skills in the following key areas including strategic thinking, multi-tasking, time management, planning and executing to a defined schedule. Experience with various cloud hosting providers is preferred (i.e., AWS, Azure). MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS : Eight (8) or more years’ experience designing backup solution, ensuring backups are completed as scheduled, managing all backup solutions and recovery tools and systems in a virtualized, mission critical environment supporting large storage volumes, and in the deployment of backup strategies for all infrastructure components. Hands-on experience installing and configuring backup solutions such as CommVault. Five (5) or more years hands-on experience with Dell storage solutions (Isilon NAS, Unity SAN) and three (3) or more years’ experience with Cohesity storage solutions or similar hyper-converged solution. Five (5) or more years hands-on experience with on-premises or Cloud to Cloud backup migration. Eight (8) or more years designing, building storage and backup. Eight (8) or more years’ experience planning storage projects and assess business implications for each stage. Eight (8) or more years’ experience supporting, planning, and building infrastructure supporting COOP & DR plans. MINIMUM EDUCATION:
Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, or a related field. Experience with various storage solutions. Seven (7) years of applicable experience may be substituted for degree requirements. TekSynap is a fast-growing high-tech company that understands both the pace of technology today and the need to have a comprehensive well-planned information management environment. We offer our full-time employees a competitive benefits package to include health, dental, vision, 401K, life insurance, short-term and long-term disability plans, vacation time and holidays. EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY In order to provide equal employment and advancement opportunities to all individuals, employment decisions will be based on merit, qualifications, and abilities. TekSynap does not discriminate against any person because of race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, national origin, disability, age, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by law.
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Storage Management and Administration
personnel to perform various activities to support the success of the team in providing quality IT services to NICHD. FUNCTIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES: Develop capacity planning strategy to manage business as usual growth that would occur during the migration windows. Plan project and manage SAN integration into existing server environment (production, test, and development). Engage in performance management, fine-tuning. Manage critical incidents via coordination of international teams supporting various storage, backup, application and server technologies. Create and configure both NFS and SMB shares and relate user permissions. Establish storage standards team for the creation of standard system builds and repeatable processes. Create and implement customized disaster recovery procedures. Design a backup and recovery strategy, disaster recovery solutions, logical recovery strategies, fault tolerant solutions. ADDITIONAL KNOWLEDGE AREAS PREFERRED: Dell Storage Specialist certification or equivalent is preferred. Hands-on experience migrating on-prem infrastructure to the Cloud is preferred. Prefer skills in the following key areas including strategic thinking, multi-tasking, time management, planning and executing to a defined schedule. Experience with various cloud hosting providers is preferred (i.e., AWS, Azure). MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS : Eight (8) or more years’ experience designing backup solution, ensuring backups are completed as scheduled, managing all backup solutions and recovery tools and systems in a virtualized, mission critical environment supporting large storage volumes, and in the deployment of backup strategies for all infrastructure components. Hands-on experience installing and configuring backup solutions such as CommVault. Five (5) or more years hands-on experience with Dell storage solutions (Isilon NAS, Unity SAN) and three (3) or more years’ experience with Cohesity storage solutions or similar hyper-converged solution. Five (5) or more years hands-on experience with on-premises or Cloud to Cloud backup migration. Eight (8) or more years designing, building storage and backup. Eight (8) or more years’ experience planning storage projects and assess business implications for each stage. Eight (8) or more years’ experience supporting, planning, and building infrastructure supporting COOP & DR plans. MINIMUM EDUCATION:
Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, or a related field. Experience with various storage solutions. Seven (7) years of applicable experience may be substituted for degree requirements. TekSynap is a fast-growing high-tech company that understands both the pace of technology today and the need to have a comprehensive well-planned information management environment. We offer our full-time employees a competitive benefits package to include health, dental, vision, 401K, life insurance, short-term and long-term disability plans, vacation time and holidays. EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY In order to provide equal employment and advancement opportunities to all individuals, employment decisions will be based on merit, qualifications, and abilities. TekSynap does not discriminate against any person because of race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, national origin, disability, age, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by law.
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