Hardware/Storage Administrator/Systems Engineer SME #2387

Overview

GovCIO is currently looking for a Hardware / Storage Administrator / Systems Engineer (SME) for our Courts proposal. This position will be located in San Antonio, TX.

Responsibilities

• Highly specialized in one or more phases of software systems development, systems integration, hardware, storage, or network engineering.
• Acts independently under general direction.
• Provides technical assistance and advice on complex activities such as installation, configuration, repair and maintenance;

allocation of storage requests support : deployment, configuration, and backup / restore services for all servers, physical or virtual.

• Provide capacity planning, installation, configuration, problem resolution, and Tier 3 support of all servers, hosts and supporting applications.
• Provide assistance in agent configuration and troubleshooting. Formulates / defines specifications, develops / modifies / maintains complex systems and subsystems, using vendor engineering releases and utilities for overall operational systems.
• Applies analytical techniques when gathering information from users, defining work problems, designing technology solutions, and developing procedures to resolve the problems.
• Develops complete specifications to enable computer programmers to prepare required programs.
• Analyzes methods of approach.
• Reviews task proposal requirements, gathers information, analyzes data, prepares project synopses, compares alternatives, prepares specifications, resolves processing problems, coordinates work with programmers and engineers, and orients users to new systems.
• Works with considerable freedom to make decisions on the techniques and approaches to be used.
• Prepares recommendations for system improvement for management and user consideration.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's with 5 -8 years (or commensurate experience)
• Considerable knowledge of the job.
• Complete understanding of the general and detailed aspects of the job, and its application.
• Provides technical solutions to a wide range of difficult problems.
• Solutions are imaginative, thorough, practicable, and consistent with organization objectives.
• Works under only general direction. Independently determines and develops approach to solutions.
• Work is reviewed upon completion for adequacy in meeting objectives.
• Contributes to the completion of specific programs and projects.
• Failure to obtain results would typically result in serious program delays and considerable expenditure of resources.
• Server support experience, including blades and enclosures (preferred platform : HP)
• SAN switch experience
• Enterprise storage system experience (Hitachi VSP required, HP 3PAR a plus
• VMware system administration (preferred ESXi 5.X)
• OS System Administration Skills (both Red Hat Linux and Windows)
• Network Administration experience (related to firewalls, LAN, DNS, etc.)
• Scripting experience (bash, Powershell, korn)
• Backup administrator experience in a SAN environment (preferred application : NetBackup)
• Experience with Domino administration

Clearance Required : Ability to acquire and maintain Public Trust