Sr. Storage Engineer

GES is seeking a Senior Storage Engineer in Fort Belvoir, VA to partner on a large enterprise IT contract for the Department of War (DoW) to support storage operations across multiple geographic locations. The Storage Engineer SME provides senior technical leadership for enterprise storage services under the Defense Threat Reduction Agency Information Management & Technical Directorate Integrated Information Technology Services (I3TS) contract.

This role architects, implements, and sustains highly available storage platforms supporting mission-critical I3TS workloads across primary, alternate, and regional environments. The engineer drives performance optimization, capacity planning, and resilient backup and recovery strategies to meet recovery objectives, continuity requirements, and operational service levels. This position ensures storage operations align with organizational and federal compliance requirements and coordinates closely with EOC, infrastructure, network, and security teams.

Clearance: An active Top Secret/SCI clearance is required for this position. US Citizenship is required.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Install, configure, and administer enterprise storage systems from multiple vendors to include, but not limited to, Dell EMC, Powerflex and Quantum
• Install, configure, and administer Rubrik server and client software. Schedule and monitor backup policies. Generate backup status reports as required
• Administer Cisco Brocade fiber channel switch fabrics. Configure single initiator zone sets and monitor switch utilization and performance
• Create and secure SMB file shares
• Coordinate with server administrators to create, secure, and mount NFS exports
• Develop and implement Disaster Recovery and Continuity of Operations plans in accordance with customer requirements
• Install, configure, maintain, and administer Linux and Windows servers in support of storage operations such as Rubrik, Media, DSM and Master servers
• Build capacity management dashboards that improve visibility into enterprise storage use, health, resilience, and provide ongoing resources for planning for enterprise infrastructure lifecycle replacement
• Configure Rubrik policies. Troubleshoot and resolve backup job failures
• Coordinate with vCenter administrators to provision Storage Area Network (SAN) resources to VMWare ESX cluster datastores as required
• Configure and manage volume snapshots. Assist customers with point-in-time file restores
• Schedule and monitor volume replication for disaster recovery
• Monitor health and availability of infrastructure applications and systems
• Work with vendors to troubleshoot and resolve hardware and software failures
• Coordinate with Change Management to deconflict and schedule hardware maintenance activities, system and firmware updates, and other configuration changes
• Execute system changes during scheduled maintenance windows
• Monitor and evaluate system performance and capacity trends
• Resolve tier 2 and tier 3 service requests
• Identify opportunities to automate operations. Develop automated solutions that take advantage of Dell and NetApp system APIs
• Seek opportunities for continuous improvement to support effective and efficient operations
• Work with Cloud Storage solutions as needed for Cloud applications
• Work independently with minimal supervision
• Mentor junior team members

• The candidate must have bachelor’s degree with 8-12 years of prior relevant experience or a Master’s degree with 6-10 years of prior relevant experience. Additional experience may be taken into consideration in lieu of a degree.
• Experience supervising others
• Extensive experience administering enterprise-level data storage systems (Dell Storage Center, Dell Compellent, and Data Domain preferred) with a demonstrated understanding of the following services and technologies
• SAN administration including provisioning of LUNs, managing fiber channel zoning, and mapping storage to servers
• NAS administration including NFS and SMB file sharing
• Integration with VMWare ESX Server
• Data migration strategies
• Snapshots
• Volume replication
• Managing file and share permissions in an Active Directory environment
• Storage monitoring and performance tuning
• Understanding of Cloud storage management
• Extensive experience managing and administering Veritas Rubrik
• Experience with scripting technologies such as PowerShell
• Working knowledge of Unix or Linux based operating systems
• Working knowledge of Distributed File System (DFS)
• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to mentor junior team members
• Ability to complete complex projects with minimal direction
• Experience working independently to support a 24/7/365 customer environment
• Experience contributing to deliverables and meeting performance metrics
• Experience coordinating with senior management and customers
• Candidate must, at a minimum, meet DoD 8570.11- IAT Level II certification requirements (currently Security+ CE, CCNA-Security, GSEC, or SSCP along with an appropriate computing environment (CE) certification)