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🌽 Illinois – Remote

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DecisionPoint Corporation

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2011

🎖️ Defense

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

Defense • Consulting • Logistics

DecisionPoint Corporation is a Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business specializing in IT modernization and digital transformation for government agencies. They provide comprehensive services including cybersecurity, health IT, and intelligent automation solutions, aimed at improving operational efficiency and effectiveness while ensuring secure cloud migration. Their Centers of Excellence approach drives mission success by addressing the most pressing challenges faced by government entities through innovative technology and expert support.

📋 Description

• Configure, administer, maintain, monitor, and troubleshoot enterprise SAN fabrics, storage arrays, switches, and supporting infrastructure • Configure and maintain Fibre Channel fabrics, switch domains, ports, aliases, zones, zone sets, and associated fabric services • Diagnose and resolve Fabric Login, zoning, name-server, pathing, inter-switch-link, and fabric-connectivity issues • Configure and troubleshoot WWN and PWWN connectivity between storage, switches, servers, appliances, and virtualization platforms • Support storage volumes, logical unit numbers, storage pools, tiers, snapshots, clones, replication, masking, mapping, and host access • Integrate storage services with physical servers, virtual machines, VMware environments, backup platforms, databases, cloud services, and infrastructure appliances • Monitor storage availability, capacity, utilization, latency, I/O operations, throughput, cache performance, errors, and overall health • Diagnose storage-performance issues and identify bottlenecks across hosts, fabrics, arrays, networks, applications, databases, and virtualization platforms • Develop capacity forecasts and recommend storage allocation, expansion, optimization, reclamation, or refresh actions • Support storage-related incidents, performance degradation, outages, and service-restoration activities • Participate in Outage Response Team activities, providing technical diagnosis, mitigation, workarounds, recovery, and service validation • Coordinate technical escalation with storage vendors, hardware manufacturers, software providers, network teams, server teams, application teams, and Government personnel • Plan and execute storage-array, SAN-switch, firmware, software, and supporting-component refreshes • Support data migrations, platform upgrades, storage replacements, consolidation, and modernization initiatives • Develop implementation plans, migration procedures, maintenance steps, validation criteria, rollback procedures, and outage contingencies • Stage, configure, test, implement, and validate new or replacement storage and SAN components • Maintain storage, SAN, asset, configuration, warranty, licensing, support-agreement, and lifecycle records • Configure and support backup, restoration, replication, failover, failback, high availability, and disaster-recovery capabilities • Support quarterly COOP exercises involving primary and backup data centers • Support power-down, failover, backup-site operations, service validation, failback, and post-exercise corrective actions • Apply approved firmware updates, vendor patches, security patches, operating-system updates, and configuration changes • Configure storage and SAN components in accordance with applicable security requirements and DISA STIGs • Support remediation of vulnerabilities, IAVAs, CND Directives, POA&M items, and security-control deficiencies • Maintain SAN diagrams, storage architecture documents, zoning records, configuration baselines, capacity plans, recovery procedures, build documents, standard operating procedures, and troubleshooting guides • Recommend improvements that increase storage availability, performance, resilience, recoverability, security, scalability, and operational efficiency

🎯 Requirements

• Active Secret clearance or higher • Bachelor’s degree or a relevant technical degree • Minimum of 7 years of relevant storage engineering, SAN administration, systems engineering, data-center infrastructure, or enterprise IT experience • Demonstrated experience configuring and troubleshooting SAN fabrics, storage arrays, switches, zoning, Fabric Logins, and WWN/PWWN connectivity • Preferred: Experience supporting enterprise storage or SAN infrastructure in a federal or Department of Defense environment • Preferred: Experience with Dell Technologies, NetApp, Pure Storage, HPE, IBM, Hitachi, or comparable enterprise storage platforms • Preferred: Experience with Brocade, Cisco MDS, or comparable Fibre Channel switching technologies • Preferred: Advanced knowledge of Fibre Channel fabrics, zoning, FLOGIs, name services, inter-switch links, host-bus adapters, multipathing, and redundant storage designs • Preferred: Experience with Fibre Channel, iSCSI, NFS, SMB, object storage, and cloud-storage technologies • Preferred: Experience integrating storage with VMware vSphere, ESXi, vCenter, vSAN, Microsoft, Linux, database, backup, and cloud platforms • Preferred: Experience with snapshots, replication, backup, restoration, failover, failback, and disaster-recovery technologies • Preferred: Experience supporting COOP or disaster-recovery exercises involving physically separated data centers • Preferred: Experience diagnosing storage latency, throughput, IOPS, capacity, pathing, fabric, host, and application-performance issues • Preferred: Experience planning and executing storage refreshes, data migrations, firmware upgrades, array replacements, and SAN cutovers • Preferred: Experience developing capacity forecasts, storage-allocation recommendations, performance reports, and lifecycle plans • Preferred: Experience supporting storage-related outages, vendor escalation, service restoration, and root-cause analysis • Preferred: Experience applying DISA STIGs and supporting DoD RMF, ATO, IAVA, CND Directive, vulnerability-remediation, and POA&M requirements • Preferred: Certifications from Dell Technologies, NetApp, Pure Storage, HPE, IBM, Hitachi, Brocade, Cisco, VMware, or another relevant storage or infrastructure provider • Preferred: CompTIA Server+, Storage Networking Industry Association certification, or an equivalent industry credential • Preferred: ITIL Foundation or higher certification • Strong troubleshooting, analytical, performance-tuning, documentation, recovery-planning, and stakeholder-coordination skills • Ability to support after-hours outages, maintenance windows, migrations, refreshes, COOP exercises, and disaster-recovery activities when required

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote work arrangement • After-hours work or travel may be required during outages, maintenance windows, storage migrations, refreshes, COOP exercises, or COOP activation