At ValidaTek, we modernize and optimize IT services to solve some of the most critical challenges facing federal civilian and defense agencies. From customers to partners to top-talent employees, ValidaTek puts people first, empowering them to exceed expectations and transform government organizations. Our success starts and ends with our people, so we built a company where great people can do great things, with the resources and autonomy to make decisions that transform organizations. We operate as one team of diverse people, united by a passion for continuous growth and optimization. Our commitment to quality and performance optimization is the reason why our IT Service Projects and New Development Projects have been appraised at CMMI Maturity Level 5, positioning us as one of a handful of elite companies to receive the highest form of third-party validation. www.validatek.com

ValidaTek is seeking a talented Storage/Backup SME to support an enterprising program with our DISA customer

• Provide management of overall Storage and Backup operations in direct coordination with the Operations Manager and Government Leadership.
• Provide enterprise storage services for JSP and customer-supported applications. Maintain a data availability of 99.95% for enterprise applications and replicated data. Maintain a data availability of 98.8% for non-replicated data.
• Provide operations, maintenance, implementation, management services, and failover integration and support. 
• Provide ongoing maintenance services that are comprehensive and integrated across functional technical areas of the JNOSC, which includes data storage, data storage transport failover software, servers, and blade servers, hyper-converged platforms, backup and recovery, and effectively utilizing vendor maintenance contracts.
• Support a complex and multi-environment storage solution (on-premises, alternate site, hybrid-cloud environment) and shall provide migration support for the relocation of on-premises storage to a future state environment as required.
• Provide life cycle management and support of the JSP-managed storage environment, inclusive of O&M, decommission, software upgrades, migrations to new storage hardware platforms and cloud hosting environments, storage rationalization, and disaster recovery.
• Develop a plan to execute major software version upgrades of the tools and software maintained by the vendor and obtain government approval of the plan within 3 months of the version release. Execute major software version upgrades to tools and applications maintained by the vendor within 9 months of Government approval.
• Develop a plan to execute major server operating system upgrades/migrations for all server operating systems maintained by the vendor and obtain government approval of the plan within 3 months of version release. 
• Provide technical support for future state transition and management of the JSP's compute and storage environments. This includes supporting coherent migration of apps, data, software, and databases from the JSP's on-premise infrastructure to target state infrastructure at a rate of no less than 5% of the total transition requirement per month.
• Ensure an optimized storage environment, inclusive of the following support activities: maintain visibility into storage resources and usage, deliver efficient storage administration, storage virtualization, tiered storage architecture, configuration, storage management software integration, and policy-based storage management.
• Provide an effective maintenance program to achieve improved availability of customer COOP and COB services and a timelier JSP OPS infrastructure response to capacity reallocation and expansion. Within the first 90 calendar days of the order, the contractor shall provide recommendations with respect to changes that will result in improved availability and more timely responses.
• Provide failover integration and support. Support traditional server clustering solutions (i.e. EMC AutoStart and Veritas Cluster Server, Microsoft Cluster Server) on tenant-provided compute platforms (i.e. tenant operated hypervisor, and computer hardware).
• Provide backup and recovery services. Provide enterprise data backup and recovery services for JSP and customer-supported applications. The backup environment is currently hosted on IBM Spectrum Protect (SP) Application with limited utilization of Tivoli and Commvault.

• Active DoD Top Secret clearance.
• Bachelor of Science degree in computer engineering, computer information systems, telecommunications, or management information systems, and 5+ years of storage/backup experience within DoD environments. 
• Information Assurance (IA) Certification: DoDI 8570 IAT II certification. (Security+ CE, CCNA-Security, CND, CySA+, GICSP, GSEC, SSCP)
• Computing Environment (CE) Certification: Recent and relevant technical certification.
• Experience in implementing solution designs and operating environments that are compliant with all Federal and DoD guidance and policies. 
• Experience in implementing software and hardware solutions. 
• Experience in data replication, failover testing, backup and restore capabilities, and plant infrastructure 
• Experience in establishing information systems requirements using analysis of the system engineers to develop enterprise-wide information systems design in an environment similar in size and scope. 
• Experience in estimating and sizing implementation efforts (i.e.., cost, performance, capacity, manageability, scalability, etc.) for storage and backup systems 
• Possess demonstrated ability to build and deploy enterprise-level backup and recovery systems for enterprise-wide DR applications from scratch and/or use an application framework to provide best practice solutions for real-world business needs. 
• Possess experience in enterprise backup and recovery applications such as Commvault, Tivoli, IBM Spectrum Protect, etc.

USD $95,577.60/Yr.

USD $159,296.00/Yr.

Actual salary will be based on a variety of factors including but not limited to experience, geographic location, contract affordability, internal equity, education, and certifications.

The upper end of the salary range may be reserved for individuals who have demonstrated tenure with the company, seniority, and proven excellent performance. This includes factors such as education, certifications, and extensive/unique experience beyond what is required.

ValidaTek is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.

Applicants who are selected for employment will be required to verify authorization to work in the United States.

Offers of employment will be contingent upon passing a post-offer background check.