Senior Storage Engineer

• Join a premier technology firm specializing in innovative solutions.  
• Be part of a collaborative, inclusive, and innovative work culture.  
• Enjoy tremendous growth potential in a high-performing team environment.  
• A robust benefits package: 
  • Health, dental, and vision insurance  
  • Life insurance  
  • Short-and-long term disability  
  • Paid time off (PTO)  
  • 401k retirement plan with employer match 
  • Annual Professional Development Reimbursement Program  
  • And more! 

• Leading the engineering, administration, and support of enterprise storage environments, with a primary focus on NetApp and Dell Unity platforms.
• Designing and maintaining highly available, scalable storage solutions for file, block, and hybrid workloads.
• Performing provisioning, configuration, upgrades, migrations, and decommissioning of storage systems.
• Managing and optimizing storage environments, including aggregates, volumes, SVMs, snapshots, replication, quotas, tiering, and protocol configuration.
• Administering NetApp, Dell EMC, and Hitachi storage arrays, including pools, LUNs, file systems, NAS servers, snapshots, replication, FAST VP/tiering, and host connectivity.
• Supporting SAN and NAS infrastructure, including Fibre Channel, iSCSI, NFS, and SMB/CIFS protocols.
• Ensuring system compliance with DISA STIG and DoD security requirements by leading critical hardening efforts.
• Monitoring storage health, capacity, utilization, and performance; identifying trends and recommending remediation or expansion strategies.
• Troubleshooting storage, replication, latency, pathing, and connectivity issues across hosts, hypervisors, and network fabrics.
• Planning and executing data migration efforts between legacy and target storage platforms with minimal downtime.
• Implementing and supporting business continuity and disaster recovery capabilities, including snapshot policies, replication, failover, and recovery testing.
• Providing mentorship and guidance to junior administrators and team members to foster a deeper understanding of storage technologies.
• Developing and maintaining documentation related to storage architecture, processes, and procedures.
• Evaluating and recommending emerging storage solutions to continuously optimize system performance and efficiency.
• Supporting projects to enhance the security, efficiency, or capability of the storage environment.
• Working with vendors and third-party providers for troubleshooting and issue resolution.

• Active Top Secret/SCI clearance required at time of hire.
• Candidate must, at a minimum, meet DoD 8570.11-IAT Level II certification requirements (currently Security+ CE, CCNA-Security, GSEC, or SSCP) at time of consideration.
• Bachelor’s degree with 8 – 12 years of prior relevant experience or master’s degree with 6 – 10 years of prior relevant experience.  Additional technical experience may be considered in lieu of degree. 
• Current Top Secret/SCI clearance at time of consideration.
• Candidate must, at a minimum, meet DoD 8570.11- IAT Level II certification requirements (currently Security+ CE, CCNA-Security, GSEC, or SSCP) at time of consideration.
• Advanced knowledge of storage systems architecture, lifecycle engineering, and infrastructure modernization principles.
• Demonstrated experience with NetApp, Dell EMC, Hitachi, VMware vSAN and other storage technologies.
• Strong working knowledge of enterprise computing environments (physical, virtual, hybrid) and server virtualization platforms (e.g., VMware).
• Working knowledge of virtualization such as VMware vSphere and backup technologies such as NetBackup, Commvault and Veeam.
• Strong knowledge of SANs, Fibre Channel fabric, and storage technologies.
• Deep understanding of DISA STIGs, system hardening, and DoD security compliance frameworks.
• Develop storage standards, architecture documentation, operational procedures, and support runbooks.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across systems, virtualization, and storage layers.

• Experience supporting large-scale Windows and Linux server environments.
• ITIL 5 Foundation Certification
• Experience with storage migrations using native and third-party tools.
• Knowledge of backup platforms such as Commvault, Veeam, NetBackup, or similar.
• Familiarity with automation tools such as Ansible or PowerCLI for automation tasks.
• Experience in regulated, highly available, or mission-critical environments.
• Prior work within the Department of War and familiarity with its IT environments.
   

• Customer Experience: Strive for excellence and delight our clients 
• Innovation: Embrace creative thinking to enable continual growth and powerful solutions 
• Accountability: Take ownership of and pride in our actions and service delivery 
• Inspire: Be inspired to be your best self and have fun in the process 
• Integrity: Do the right thing, the right way, every time! 
• Stewardship: The careful and responsible management of something entrusted to our care. 

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