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Storage Engineer – Poly Clearance Required!

Praxis is a prime contractor performing on a High Performance Computing (HPC) contract in support of a restricted customer and a select mission partners. This contract provides advanced computing capabilities for scientific, data science and AI/ML workloads. The team provides infrastructures to  enable innovation supporting high fidelity, advanced analytics and models by delivering the highest quality technical capabilities, cutting edge computing and engineering support to its customers.

The infrastructure delivers a state of the art solution comprised of hardware, software, storage and networking as well as application, database and workstation support. The program supports an advanced computing infrastructure containing clustered GPUs and massively parallel CPU to enable the delivery of high fidelity, advanced analytic products. This environment provides unprecedented access to computational power and analytic throughput to solve some of the government’s most challenging computational and scientific problems.

What you will be doing

The successful candidate is responsible for maintaining existing storage capabilities, capacity planning, and architecting the programs storage solutions. Provides daily support for implementation, troubleshooting and maintenance of storage systems. Manages the storage infrastructure and any processes related to these systems. Provides support to HPC solutions including: day-to-day operations, monitoring and problem resolution for all storage problems. The candidate will work cross functionally with compute, network, and user support to maintain uptime, plan expanded offerings and resolve user issues.

What you will need

• Designing, operating, and maintaining storage technologies (NAS, SAN, DFS, back-up and archives).
• Performs server and storage capacity management and planning for the most complex and critical systems.
• Providing second level problem identification, diagnosis and resolution of problems.
• Providing support for hardware problems and remains involved in the resolution process.
• Providing support for the escalation and communication of status to management and internal and external customers.
• Planning, coordinating, and implementing security measures to safeguard data.
• Operations related to storage systems management software.
• Installing, maintaining, monitoring and conducting advanced analysis of output and performance. 
• Familiar with storage architectures, operations and solutions including Hitachi, IXsystems, Rubrik, and Weka.
• Experience documenting storage architectures and system diagrams to be used within engineering and as reference materials with mission partners
• Strong communications skills.
• M.S. with six years of professional experience, a B.S. with a minimum of nine years of professional experience, or no degree with a minimum of twelve years of professional experience.         

Clearance:
Active TS/SCI with an appropriate polygraph is required to be considered for this role.

Who are we?
Praxis Engineering* was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Annapolis Junction MD - with growing offices in Chantilly VA and Aberdeen MD.

Praxis Engineering is a consulting, product, and solutions firm dedicated to the practical application of software and system engineering technologies to solve complex problems. 

With over 300 employees supporting more than 50 contracts, Praxis brings together world class engineers with proven engineering best practices, domain expertise, commercial technologies and proven agile management approaches to create high value solutions aimed at helping our customers meet their most critical business and mission objectives.  

*Praxis Engineering is a wholly owned subsidiary of General Dynamics IT.

Why Praxis? 
We are focused on continual learning and evolution. We don’t do things because “that’s the way we’ve always done things”; we listen to our employees and adapt to the changing marketplace.   We look at the big picture and encourage our engineers to get training and certifications in emerging technologies that will help shape our customer’s mission.  We've been profitable year after year.  We're always on the lookout for great engineers to join the team and we recognize that our employees are the heart and soul of what we do.   We focus on recruiting talented people, treating them right, and then allowing them to do what they do best.  No red tape. No micromanagement.  Smart people want to work with smart people, and we love people who are passionate about what they do, and finding ways to do it better.

And then there is the...

Benefits

• Attractive total compensation package to include competitive salary and medical benefits with an option for FREEemployee HSA medical plan!
• Office perks such as free soft drinks and snacks (both healthy and not-so-healthy)
• Praxis swag (annual gift certificate to purchase top brand Praxis apparel)
• 401k contribution/match: combination of profit share/contribution (3.5%) and employer match (up to 4.5%) for a total of 8%.
• Annual bonus plan
• 4 weeks Paid Time Off + 10 holidays + comp time eligibility. (30+ days of leave to start!)
  • We reward longevity! On your 5^thwork anniversary – you will receive an additional week of PTO to 5 weeks of PTO. Making it 35+ days of leave altogether!
  • On your 10^th work anniversary– you will receive an additional week of PTO to 6 weeks of PTO. Making it 40+ days of leave altogether!
  • At any time, your unused PTO can be traded in for $$$!
• Carryover a max of 380hoursof leave from year to year. You can choose to have a sabbatical one year or trade in your unused PTO for something nice!
• Training is a priority! Take advantage of our endless in-house training opportunities - or seek out vendor offered (paid) training opportunities like conferences, certification courses and seminars. 
  • Conferences (recently attended by Praxis employees): AWS Summit, IoT World, Black Hat and DefCon.
  • Training & Certifications: Splunk, AWS, Big Data/Cloudera, VMWare, Scrum Master...the list of certifications goes on and on!
  • Praxis University: Cyber Research, Data Analytics, IoT, AWS and RedHat course offerings and hands-on training.
• We truly believe the right work-life balance can exist, and it's here at Praxis. Our work is extremely important, but your job is just a part of who you are. When you enjoy your life outside of our walls, you're at your best the next time you walk through our doors. We do all we can to assure that happens every day.

Praxis Engineering provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, or any other protected class.