<h3><strong>Location: </strong>Herdon, VA</h3>
<h3><strong>Job ID:</strong> 2209</h3>
<h3><strong># of Positions: </strong>1</h3>
<strong>Overview:</strong>
We have an immediate opening for a <strong>Sr. Consulting Engineer</strong> to work in our Professional Services Organization.  The Sr. Consulting  Engineer position is an accomplished technical job function within  Professional Services.

<strong>Responsibilities</strong>:

Candidate  will be responsible for architecture design and changes for a worldwide  network. Candidate must have strong written and oral communications  skills and will be called upon to defend and represent network  architecture designs and changes.
<ul>
	<li>Provide technical services  in the form of design, assessment, analysis, and troubleshooting of  IP-driven networks, systems and applications.</li>
	<li>Serve as a Senior Engineering project lead on technical deployments and customer engagements.</li>
	<li>Architect, Design and implement storage, backup and data management solutions.</li>
	<li>Perform assessments of complex storage and server architectures, and create roadmaps for remediation.</li>
	<li>Design scalable storage and backup architectures.</li>
	<li>Design and deploy of advanced computing and storage technologies, e.g. server virtualization, storage virtualization, etc.</li>
	<li>Design and deploy Information Management Lifecycle (ILM) solutions.</li>
	<li>Lead data center migrations and consolidation initiatives.</li>
	<li>Implement datacenter/server/network operational components (Monitoring, Management, etc.).</li>
	<li>Work on application/database rationalization designs and implementations.</li>
	<li>Plan future storage capacity.</li>
	<li>Implement disaster recovery processes and procedures.</li>
	<li>Performance tuning of servers and related systems.</li>
	<li>Develop additional technical and professional skills through career-track curriculum and self-learning experiences.</li>
	<li>Provide  support and leadership on internal Professional Services initiatives  such as process improvement, best practices, and research.</li>
	<li>Contribution to Professional Services objectives for revenue attainment.</li>
	<li>Help  identify and gain client commitment for billed work opportunities  throughout the year.  Seek at least 90 billable time per month.</li>
	<li>Support  Manager, Sr. Manager or Director Professional Services Delivery in a  pre-sales capacity to help sell Professional Services through new sales,  add-on sales and lead generation.</li>
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<strong>Qualifications</strong>:
<ul>
	<li><strong>Active Top Secret Clearance</strong></li>
	<li>Associate  degree and/or 8+ years industry experience in one of the following  technical fields:  Information Technology, Computer Science, Computer  Information Systems, Electrical Engineering, or related technical  discipline.</li>
	<li>Exposure to Hardware Platforms (Unix/Wintel -  HP/Sun/IBM etc.) and Operating Systems (Windows/Unix/Linux) and  Storage/Backup platforms such as HDS, EMC, Netapp, Symantec Netbackup,  Commvault.</li>
	<li>Candidate must have demonstrated outstanding and  consistent technical skills in one of the following areas of  Professional Services core competency:  Storage Systems and Management.</li>
	<li>Solid understanding of ITIL concepts.</li>
	<li>Experience in project management and detailed technical planning.</li>
	<li>Demonstrated leadership to grow and mentor other people.</li>
	<li>Ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment.</li>
	<li>Good overall knowledge of Storage technologies in the area of SAN, NAS, and Archiving.</li>
	<li>Consulting experience is highly desired.</li>
	<li>Service and Delivery management - automated provisioning techniques.</li>
	<li>Candidate  should possess the ability to take an opportunity, lead exploratory  meetings with clients in order to drive a solution, a proposal, and  close the deal.</li>
	<li>Consultative – candidate must be able to work in a consultative manner to address client needs and develop a target solution.</li>
	<li>This  position demonstrates strong demonstrated written and oral  communications skills.  The candidate in this position must have  demonstrated successes in a collaborative and partnering with clients.   Candidate must demonstrate ability to listen critically, think  quantitatively, and develop solutions to client business issues.   Candidate must have a strong understanding of business fundamentals in  accounting and finance, project management, and management.</li>
	<li>Candidate must have business expertise in at least one industry segment.</li>
	<li>Must have high-energy work ethic and be available to work non-standard hours during peak season times.</li>
	<li>Must be a U.S Citizen</li>
</ul>
We  encourage our employees to maintain an optimum work-life balance by  providing unique programs and comprehensive benefits that are important  to today’s busy professionals.  Benefits include Medical, Dental, and  Vision plans, life and disability insurance, 401K with match, Employee  Stock Purchase Plan, short and long term disability, flexible spending,  and tuition reimbursement.  In addition, employees enjoy observance of  all federal holidays, a family friendly environment, personalized `Paths  To Excellence’, flexible work schedules, interactive wellness programs,  smoking cessation and weight loss programs, and credit union  membership.  Our new 5 star facility in Herndon, VA includes a gym,  cafe, executive lounge and credit union.
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