DevOps Storage Engineer

Quantum Sky•Chantilly, VA

9d•$120,000 - $140,000•Onsite

About The Position

Quantum Sky is hiring a DevOps Storage Engineer to support an Intel customer in Chantilly, Virginia. The role builds, maintains, and optimizes infrastructure supporting enterprise IT workloads. The engineer will work with a diverse team to design, deploy, maintain, and secure platform infrastructure, collaborating across and outside the organization to deliver high standards for building, deploying, and securing infrastructure. The position focuses on maintaining secure, performant, and available storage solutions, including enterprise SAN, NAS, and unified storage platforms.

Requirements

Proven experience configuring, managing, and troubleshooting enterprise SAN, NAS, and unified storage platforms, such as NetApp, Dell PowerStore/PowerMax, or Pure Storage.
Deep knowledge of block and file protocols, including Fibre Channel, iSCSI, NFS, and SMB/CIFS.
Proficiency automating storage provisioning, lifecycle tasks, and configuration management using tools such as Terraform and Ansible.
Scripting skills in Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
Hands-on experience integrating persistent volumes with Kubernetes using CSI drivers, storage classes, and dynamic volume provisioning.
In-depth Linux systems administration skills, including Red Hat/CentOS and Ubuntu.
Experience with DM-Multipath, LVM, ext4, XFS, and ZFS, and troubleshooting I/O latency, IOPS, and throughput.
Active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility.

Nice To Haves

Experience designing and managing S3-compatible cloud and software-defined object storage, such as AWS S3/EBS/EFS, MinIO, or Ceph, across hybrid or multi-cloud enterprise environments.
Hands-on experience integrating automated storage tests and provisioning workflows into CI/CD pipelines such as GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or Jenkins.
Experience managing storage declarations through GitOps workflows such as ArgoCD.
Familiarity with Prometheus, Grafana, or OpenTelemetry for storage metrics, SLA monitoring, and automated capacity forecasting.
Certifications such as CKA, HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate, vendor storage credentials (such as NetApp NCDA or Pure Certified Architect), or an advanced cloud provider specialty (such as AWS Solutions Architect).

Responsibilities

Build, maintain, and troubleshoot complex storage infrastructures to ensure secure, performant, and available solutions.
Configure, manage, and troubleshoot enterprise SAN, NAS, and unified storage platforms.
Automate storage provisioning, lifecycle tasks, and configuration management.
Integrate persistent volumes with container platforms using Kubernetes CSI drivers, storage classes, and dynamic volume provisioning.
Administer Linux systems, including multipath I/O, volume management, filesystem tuning, and performance troubleshooting.
Design and manage S3-compatible cloud and software-defined object storage solutions across hybrid or multi-cloud environments.
Embed automated storage tests and provisioning workflows into CI/CD pipelines and manage storage declarations through GitOps workflows.
Use telemetry and observability tools to monitor storage performance and SLA thresholds and support capacity planning.