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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.
