Storage Engineer

Job Description

Maxar Intelligence's Share IT is seeking an experienced Storage Engineer to support the development and integration of various intelligence. Our team is the multi-faceted IT team supporting Maxar products and environments. We are responsible for the cloud, private cloud, and on-prem systems.

This is a hybrid role based in Westminster, CO, supporting mission-critical devices in our on-prem datacenters (Westminster and Longmont, CO), as well as remote data centers. with an average of three-days in office/datacenter per week and as needed.

Principal Responsibilities:

• Design, deploy, automate, and manage enterprise storage systems, ensuring high availability, redundancy, and disaster recovery capabilities across multiple data centers and physical sites, including SAN, NAS, and local object store.
• Configure, monitor, and optimize storage solutions to meet performance, capacity, and scalability requirements while minimizing downtime and ensuring data integrity.
• Perform regular infrastructure assessments, updates, and patches on storage systems to ensure optimal performance, security, and compliance with industry best practices and organizational standards.
• Troubleshoot storage-related issues, including performance bottlenecks, connectivity issues, and data access problems, utilizing root cause analysis techniques.
• Develop and maintain documentation related to storage architecture, procedures, and configurations, ensuring compliance with industry standards and organizational policies.
• Evaluate and recommend new storage technologies and solutions to enhance system performance, efficiency, and scalability, keeping up to date with emerging trends and vendor offerings.
• Support security initiatives to protect enterprise storage systems, ensuring compliance with applicable security policies, regulations, and best practices.
• Perform regular maintenance activities to ensure the stability and security of storage platforms. i.e., patching, standard changes, disk swaps, etc.
• Continually watch alerts and dashboards for performance and issues. Act accordingly to maintain reliability of storage platforms
• Develop and maintain documentation related to storage architectures, processes, and procedures.
• Participate in on-call rotation and provide tier-3 support for critical storage-related incidents.

Minimum Requirements:

• Eight (5) years' experience in storage operations / storage engineering.
• Bachelor of Science (BS) Degree from an accredited university in a technical field is required. Five (5) additional years of experience in storage operations may be considered in lieu of degree.
• Experience in overall IT infrastructure, storage engineering, storage systems, and systems architecture
• Minimum of 5 years' related experience with IC and/or DoD systems
• Experience with full life cycle storage administration, architecture, and support including storage utilizations, capacity planning and adjusting storage requirements
• Deep understanding of protocols like iSCSI, NFS, SMB/CIFS, Fibre Channel, and object storage (S3, Swift).
• Strong understanding of performance metrics (i.e.. IOPS, Latency, throughput).
• Experience in a high-performance environment including low latency database.
• Deep understanding of protocols like iSCSI, NFS, SMB/CIFS, Fibre Channel, and object storage (S3, Swift).
• Knowledge in security and data encryption methods and practices.
• Excellent troubleshooting skills and a methodical approach to problem-solving.
• Strong communication skills and ability to work collaboratively in a team environment.
• Must be a U.S. citizen and be able to obtain U.S. Government security clearance.

Desired Skills:

• Experience with working providing storage for virtual environments
• Knowledge of cloud storage services (Netapp StorageGrid AWS S3/EBS, Azure Blob Storage, Google Cloud Storage) and hybrid architectures
• Proficiency with RedHat and Windows administration
• Demonstrated knowledge of a broad range of technologies beyond storage, i.e.: virtualization, networking, data management/migration, security, and disaster recovery
• Strong background in automation
• Must meet DoD 8570 IAT Level II requirements including one of the following: Security+ CE, CND, SSCP, GSEC, GICSP, CySA+, or CCNA Security
• Top Secret SCI with a CI Polygraph

For all other states, we use geographic cost of labor as an input to develop market-driven ranges for our roles, and as such, each location where we hire may have a different range.

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, health and welfare insurance, and 401(k) to eligible employees. You can find more information on our benefits at: https://www.maxar.com/careers/benefits

The application window is three days from the date the job is posted and will remain posted until a qualified candidate has been identified for hire. If the job is reposted regardless of reason, it will remain posted three days from the date the job is reposted and will remain reposted until a qualified candidate has been identified for hire.

The date of posting can be found on Maxar's Career page at the top of each job posting.

To apply, submit your application via Maxar's Career page.

Maxar Technologies values diversity in the workplace and is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.