Implementation Storage Engineer - Peraton / U.S. Department of Homeland Security
(2024-05 - 2026-02)
- Supports design, operation, workflow, and issue resolution for storage infrastructure.
- Manage storage protocols including NFS, CIFS, iSCSI, and FC.
- Handles NetApp Storage and ONTAP clusters, including capacity planning, scalability, and performance requirements.
- Implements and configures NetApp MetroCluster or Snap Mirror for high availability and disaster recovery.
- Monitors system performance and health through NetApp System Manager, On Command Insight, and Active IQ.
- Manages Cohesity Backup solutions, defining protection groups and recovery objectives (RTO/RPO) to meet federal data protection requirements.
Implementation Storage Engineer - U.S. Department of Justice - Washington DC
(2021-06 - 2024-06)
As a Storage Engineer I was responsible for managing storage protocols such as NFS, CIFS, iSCSI, and FC, and will be expected to handle NetApp Storage and ONTAP clusters.
- Design and plan NetApp storage environments based on organizational needs, including capacity planning, scalability, and performance requirements.
- Implement and configure NetApp MetroCluster or SnapMirror for high availability and disaster recovery across sites.
- Monitor system performance, capacity utilization, and health through tools like NetApp System Manager, OnCommand Insight, and Active IQ.
- Identify and resolve storage-related issues, including performance bottlenecks, connectivity issues, and hardware failures.
- Replace failed drives and confirm system rebuilds are successful, ensuring data redundancy is maintained.
- Test SnapMirror and MetroCluster failover and failback processes to ensure disaster recovery procedures are effective.
- Cohesity Backup-Document configurations, changes, and procedures for storage systems to maintain clear operational guidelines.
- Cohesity Backup-Define storage domains, protection groups, and backup policies based on recovery objectives (RTO/RPO) and business requirements.
- Cohesity Backup-Develop and manage backup schedules, retention policies, and incremental/differential backups to meet data protection requirements.
- Cohesity Backup-Monitor backup jobs, alerts, and system health through Cohesity's dashboard, identifying any failures or missed backups.
- Cohesity Backup-Resolve issues related to backup failures, storage capacity, and connectivity problems with data sources.
- Cohesity Backup-Perform data restorations in case of data loss or corruption, ensuring minimal downtime and data integrity.
Implementation Storage Engineer - U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission - Washington DC
(2018-10 - 2021-06)
- Update all storage infrastructure with latest vendor operating systems, security patches and software patches as recommends.
- Use Storage management tools to discover, monitor, provision and report on the storage infrastructure for roughly 23PB of RAW Tiered Storage across HQ and RO using the following Storage Protocols NFS, SMB/CIFS, and FC.
- Manage/Monitor SEC Environments Using OnCommand Insight version 7.3.
- Provision storage CIFS shares, NFS share and present LUNs to servers.
- Assist meeting and work with VMware team to configure and test failover for DR testing
- Troubleshoot and resolve backup failures/complete restore request.
- Reclaim storage from decommissioned servers, remove zones from active zoneset and delete all related zones for the decommission servers.
- Perform storage takeovers and givebacks of storage controllers as required to address performance and access related issues.
- Performs general system management, including, data migration, installation, configuration, and maintenance when needed.
- Troubleshoots issues directly and indirectly related to storage system from an end to end perceptive.
- Work directly and indirectly with other OIT infrastructure teams, i.e., VMware, UNIX, Window DBA and other Application owners to address related issues.
- Work collaborative and autonomously with Storage Team and Storage Vendors to resolve complex problem impacting end users.
- Working knowledge of the previous equipment i.e., Old Name VMAX New Name Power Max.
Implementation Storage Engineer - Quality Technology Service - Dulles, VA
(2016-06 - 2018-09)
- Supports design, operation, work-flow, and issues resolution for the Storage infrastructure.
- Develops and maintains storage documentation and Standard of Operations (SOPs).
- Installs, configures, setup, and maintains FS and ISCSI storage arrays and storage related hardware and software in a managed services environment.
EMC Storage Engineer - Inter Amer Development Bank - Washington, DC
(2014-06 - 2016-06)
- Managed replication and deduplication using Unisphere manager.
- Managed traditional and thin LUNs, Raid Groups, and storage pools.
- Upgraded Flare and applied patches.
EMC Storage Engineer - Booz Allen Hamilton - Falls Church, VA
(2013-03 - 2014-06)
- Maintained storage hardware and software to include storage subsystems and administering fabric zoning.
- Developed reports to indicate storage performance, capacity, forecast planning, etc.
- Supervised and implemented system upgrade strategies.
- Evaluated and analyzed new products.
