Storage Infrastructure Architect

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Division Summary

MITRE's Enterprise Computing, Information, and Security (ECIS) is seeking an experienced Storage Infrastructure Architect with a background in designing, implementing, and supporting storage, virtualization, and cloud technology offerings. This is an exciting opportunity for a highly technical candidate seeking to be part of a collaborative team that leverages automation to deliver infrastructure services for the organization. Join the successful and growing team of engineers with a diverse set of skills and backgrounds providing IT solutions to the organization.

Job Description

• Design, install and maintain storage, and data protection technologies both in MITRE Data Centers and in Cloud service offerings.

• Assist the development and implementation of best practices, compliance standards, and security controls for on prem and cloud infrastructure.

• Participate in an environment that emphasizes trust, open communication, creative thinking, and cohesive team effort.

• Work in an agile model, delivering assigned stories as part of development sprints.

• Use data and analytics to understand usages and trends on storage and backup infrastructure.

• Understand data pipelines so that you can help identify and resolve issues.

• Provide lifecycle support of enterprise storage and data protection solutions.

Basic Qualifications

• 8+ years of data infrastructure technology experience with at least 5 years designing, deploying, implementing, and maintaining enterprise-grade storage and backup solutions.

• Experience with data lifecycle including data architectures, data storage, system integrations, system maintenance, system migrations, data transfers, and data archival.

• Ability to perform storage data analytics, reporting, and visualization.

• Experience delivering highly available and scalable solutions, understanding of different HA and DR techniques.

• Ability to lead and participate in the research and evaluation of new technologies, hardware, software, services, and implementation processes.

• Solve complex technical problems, communicate ideas, and plans to a diverse set of colleagues, negotiate technical solutions across teams when needed.

• Develop and maintain documentation for processes and system configurations, author standard operating procedures for Infrastructure standards.

• Direct experience collaborating on the design and integration of a broad range of enterprise IT capabilities from multiple vendors spanning functional areas.

• Effectively manage and track work, regularly communicate status and provide feedback.

• Typically requires a minimum of 8 years of related experience with a bachelor's degree; or 6 years and a master's degree; or a PhD with 3 years' experience; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.

• Active Secret Clearance, ability to obtain a TS.

Preferred Qualifications

• Block, file, object, and archive storage technologies knowledge including Pure, Cleversafe, and NetApp; data protection solutions such as Commvault.

• Cloud storage and archival services including AWS, Azure Files, and GCP

• Infrastructure automation and configuration management framework and scripting languages including Ansible, Chef, Python, Ruby, Terraform, PowerShell, etc.

• CompTIA Security+ or equivalent security certification.

This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s):

Secret

This requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s):

Top Secret

Work Location Type

Hybrid

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