TELECOMMUTE Sr. Storage Engineer

This is a remote U.S.-based contract opportunity supporting a strategic customer initiative through March 31, 2027, with strong potential for extension based on project success., * Develop storage strategies, standards, reference architectures, and technology roadmaps aligned to workload and business requirements.

• Design solutions for block, file, object, software-defined, cloud, and high-performance storage use cases.
• Define approaches for backup, replication, snapshot management, archiving, disaster recovery, and business continuity.
• Evaluate storage performance, capacity, availability, durability, and data placement requirements across application tiers.
• Drive automation and lifecycle management to improve provisioning speed, consistency, utilization, and operational efficiency.
• Partner with security, data, application, infrastructure, and operations teams to address data protection and compliance needs.
• Lead technology evaluations, proof-of-concept activities, implementation planning, and transition into steady-state operations.
• Track consumption, growth, service quality, and cost to identify opportunities for optimization.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance for enterprise storage and data management initiatives.
• Communicate storage strategy, architecture decisions, risks, and recommendations to both technical and executive stakeholders.

• 8+ years of experience designing, implementing, and supporting enterprise storage solutions.
• Deep expertise in storage architecture across block, file, and object storage technologies.
• Experience with software-defined storage platforms and cloud-based storage services.
• Strong understanding of backup, recovery, replication, disaster recovery, and business continuity strategies.
• Experience with storage performance analysis, capacity planning, and optimization.
• Knowledge of data governance, compliance, security, and data protection best practices.
• Experience leading infrastructure modernization and transformation initiatives.
• Strong communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field equivalent experience preferred.

Tools and Technologies:

• Dell EMC PowerStore, PowerMax, Isilon/PowerScale
• NetApp ONTAP
• Pure Storage
• HPE Alletra and Primera
• IBM Storage Solutions
• Object Storage Platforms
• Software-Defined Storage Technologies
• AWS Storage Services
• Microsoft Azure Storage Services
• Backup and Recovery Platforms
• Storage Monitoring and Analytics Tools