Storage Architect - EDC Consulting LLC

Job Title: Storage Architect

Responsibilities of the Storage Architect:
EDC Consulting is seeking to hire a Storage Architectin Annapolis Junction, MD. The Storage Architect is responsible for ongoing storage recommendations, capacity planning and best practices, as applicable, for the following areas: business continuity, high availability, backup, recovery, and archiving.

The Storage Architect will:

• Continuously manage the configuration and layout of the storage infrastructure, conducting periodic environmental analyses following best practices.
• Provide ongoing storage recommendations, conduct capacity planning, and implement best practices in business continuity, high availability, backup, recovery, and archiving.
• Offer reach-back support to various storage vendor technical teams.
• Communicate effectively with program personnel, government overseers, and senior executives.
• Share ownership of the operational responsibility for storage provisioning and availability at the government customer site with the Customer/Government Storage Manager.
• Provision storage based on standardized procedures to meet customer-agreed standards.
• Generate regular storage operations reports using government and/or vendor-supplied tools.
• Demonstrate proven proficiency in various storage solutions.
• Access vendor proprietary tools to effectively manage appropriate on-site solutions.
• Coordinate the resolution of action items from Configuration Control Board meetings, design reviews, and test reviews requiring cross-discipline coordination.
• Recommend changes to procedures for operational optimization and improved SLAs.
• Work closely with project management to define project deliverables and schedules.
• Participate in creating technical storage documentation, including customized Standard Operating Procedures documents as required.
• Participate in gathering logs and data required for Root Cause Analysis.
• Perform performance tuning of storage infrastructure as required.
• Provide technical leadership and be responsible for delivering ongoing technical architectural design, strategies, and plans.
• Responsible for capacity planning and disaster recovery planning and design where applicable.
• Ensure ongoing recommendations and best practices in business continuity, high availability, backup, recovery, and archiving.
• Design data migration plans and architectures as required.
• Provide ITIL process planning as appropriate.

Qualifications:

• Fifteen (15) years of experience in storage operations or storage architecture.
• Bachelor of Science (BS) Degree from an accredited university in CS, IS, SE, or a related field is required.
• Five (5) additional years of experience in storage operations may be substituted for a Bachelor's Degree.
• Active TS/SCI with Full Scope Poly

About EDC Consulting:
Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Tysons Corner, VA, EDC Consulting is a small business provider of enterprise solutions and strategic business support to the Federal Government. With more than 150 client engagements successfully delivered, EDC has extensive experience designing, developing, implementing and maintaining complex business systems and software solutions for a wide range of Department of Defense, Federal, state and local and commercial clients. EDC is an Oracle Platinum Partner, SAP Partner and Premier Business Partner of the IBM Corporation. EDC offers a rich corporate culture with driven and determined leadership in a dynamic environment that was founded on openness and success. We enjoy an energetic and fun atmosphere in a culture of mutual respect. At EDC, we build upon the principals and traditions of our military. Personal responsibility, accountability and strong work ethic are a must. Our clients benefit from working alongside a winning team of smart, hard-working, creative and successful professionals. By becoming part of the EDC team; our employees will share in our entrepreneurial spirit and success.

Please send your resume to resumes@edcconsulting.com EDC Consulting is an equal opportunity employer.

For additional information on EDC Consulting, visit us at www.edcconsulting.com