IT Sr Consultant 5 - NetApp Storage Architect

The IT Senior Consultant Level 5 serves as a senior technical expert leading advanced storage engineering initiatives across large, mission critical environments. This role provides specialized consulting, architecture guidance, and project leadership while engineering and optimizing enterprise storage, backup, and replication systems. Hands on NetApp experience required., Enterprise Storage Engineering

• Provide hands on engineering support for NetApp and enterprise storage platforms (SAN/NAS).
• Configure, optimize, and maintain storage systems using S3, CIFS, NFS, iSCSI, and Fiber Channel protocols.
• Conduct capacity planning, sizing, and performance tuning for storage and backup environments including Veritas NetBackup, Cohesity, Rubrik, and CommVault.
• Support data center migrations, replication technologies, and multi platform storage integration.
• Connect storage arrays to hypervisors such as NUTANIX, VMware VCF, and OpenStack.

Systems Architecture & High Availability

• Design and implement storage architectures supporting high availability, resilience, and scalability.
• Ensure proper configuration of hardware components: disk, memory, CPU, NIC, HBA, firmware, RAID, and performance metrics (I/O, paging, swapping).
• Oversee installation, upgrades, and lifecycle maintenance of enterprise storage hardware and software.

Security & Compliance

• Apply federal hardening requirements (FISMA, STIG) and security best practices.
• Use Nessus Security Center for vulnerability identification and compliance validation.
• Ensure secure storage operations aligned with mission and regulatory requirements.

Operational Support & Documentation

• Diagnose and troubleshoot complex storage and backup issues across distributed environments.
• Provide incident support and participate in on call rotation.
• Maintain engineering documentation including diagrams, run books, installation guides, and procedural standards.
• Monitor systems and analyze statistics related to performance, utilization, and capacity.

Consulting & Project Leadership

• Lead medium to large IT projects and major phases of enterprise modernization efforts.
• Provide specialized technical guidance and solutions to complex IT problems.
• Conduct detailed analyses, prepare technical reports, and deliver briefings to government stakeholders.
• Collaborate effectively with engineers, architects, and federal technical staff to evaluate and integrate new technologies.
• Demonstrate initiative, teamwork, and the ability to take direction in high impact mission environments.

• TS/SCI with Full Scope Polygraph required - No exceptions, no sponsorship.
• Must have extensive hands on experience with NetApp and enterprise storage systems.
• Bachelor’s degree + 12 years relevant experience.
• Associate’s degree + 15 years relevant experience, or
• High School/GED + 20 years relevant experience, or
• IAT Level II certification (e.g., Security+ CE).
• Strong written and oral communication skills; ability to work collaboratively.
• Understanding of TCP/IP fundamentals (TCP, UDP, ICMP, SMTP, SNMP, LDAP, DNS, NTP).