Storage Engineer

Candidates must demonstrate a high degree of problem-solving ability in a complex environment and be able to communicate effectively, both to the customer and to team members.\n, * 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. \n

• Current Top Secret/SCI clearance at time of consideration.\n
• The candidate must, at a minimum, meet DoD 8140.03 / DoDI 8570.01-M IAT Level II certification requirements (e.g., Security+ CE, CCNA-Security, GSEC, or SSCP) at the time of consideration.\n
• Advanced knowledge of storage systems architecture, lifecycle engineering, and infrastructure modernization principles.\n, * Experience supporting large-scale Windows and Linux server environments.\n
• Experience with storage migrations using native and third-party tools.\n
• Knowledge of backup platforms such as Commvault, Veeam, NetBackup, or similar.\n
• Familiarity with automation tools such as Ansible or PowerCLI for automation tasks.\n
• Prior work within the Department of Defense and familiarity with its IT environments.\n

We are seeking a highly skilled Storage Engineer with demonstrated experience in designing, deploying, and managing enterprise storage environments. \n \n \nCandidate will be responsible for:\n \n \n

• Serve as a subject-matter expert for engineering, administration, and support of enterprise storage environments, with primary focus on NetApp and Dell Unity platforms.\n
• Design and maintain highly available, scalable storage solutions for file, block, and hybrid workloads.\n
• Perform provisioning, configuration, upgrades, migrations, and decommissioning of storage systems.\n
• Manage and optimize storage environments, including aggregates, volumes, SVMs, snapshots, replication, quotas, tiering, and protocol configuration.\n
• Administer NetApp, Dell EMC, Hitachi storage arrays, including pools, LUNs, file systems, NAS servers, snapshots, replication, FAST VP/tiering, and host connectivity.\n
• Support SANand NAS infrastructure, including Fibre Channel, iSCSI, NFS, and SMB/CIFS protocols.\n
• Ensure system compliance with DISA STIG and DoD security requirements by leading critical hardening efforts.\n
• Monitor storage health, capacity, utilization, and performance; identify trends and recommend remediation or expansion strategies.\n
• Plan and execute data migration efforts between legacy and target storage platforms with minimal downtime.\n
• Implement and support business continuity and disaster recovery capabilities, including snapshot policies, replication, failover, and recovery testing.\n
• Develop and maintain documentation related to storage architecture, processes, and procedures.\n