Senior Enterprise Storage Engineer

Peraton•Oklahoma City, OK

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Enterprise Storage Engineer provides technical oversight of hardware and software systems, with a focus on storage area network administration. The role provides professional service in accordance with site service-level agreements and customer requirements, and ensures system security complies with customer policy, including patching and auditing. The engineer maintains network standards and guidelines, monitors utilization, performance metrics, and service levels, and ensures reliable data backup and recovery. The position develops and maintains automated environments for reporting, event notifications and actions, software updates, and service packs. It includes reporting on capacity and proactively planning for additional storage; allocating storage to servers; configuring Fibre Channel switches; planning SAN capacity; and providing operating-system-level support for security and data recovery. The engineer also provides technical support, uses automation tools to deliver applications, manages assets, monitors performance, and automates desktop support. The role coordinates activities, status updates, outage notifications, and schedules; performs account maintenance; troubleshoots network communications; maintains SAN cabling plans and network documentation; and installs, configures, administers, and optimizes server hardware and operating systems. Interaction with users is an integral part of the role. Additional duties include designing, implementing, and maintaining enterprise SAN, NAS, object, and hyperconverged storage solutions; provisioning and managing storage resources; conducting capacity planning and performance analysis; planning replication, snapshot, and backup/recovery strategies for continuity of operations and disaster recovery; performing upgrades, patching, migrations, and technology refreshes; and resolving escalated storage incidents through root cause analysis and corrective action. The engineer maintains technical documentation, manages vendor support and asset lifecycle activities, and contributes to engineering change proposals, technical solutions, and cost estimates. This is a hybrid position requiring 2–3 days per week in the office in Columbus, Ohio; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; or Montgomery, Alabama. The target salary range is $135,000–$216,000. Employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus, depending on the position.

Requirements

U.S. citizenship.
Active Secret clearance.
At least 12 years of experience with a bachelor's degree, 10 years with a master's degree, or 7 years with a Ph.D.
Experience in an enterprise environment.
Working knowledge of SAN/NAS architectures, Fibre Channel and iSCSI fabrics, zoning, and NFS/SMB protocols.
Experience integrating storage with VMware vSphere or other virtualization platforms.
Strong troubleshooting, documentation, and communication skills.

Responsibilities

Provide technical oversight of hardware and software systems, especially storage area network administration.
Deliver service according to site service-level agreements and customer requirements.
Ensure system security complies with customer policy, including patching and auditing.
Implement and maintain network standards and guidelines.
Monitor system utilization, data storage, performance metrics, and service levels.
Ensure reliable backup and recovery of necessary data.
Develop and maintain automation for reporting, event notifications and actions, software updates, and service packs.
Report storage capacity and proactively plan for additional storage.
Allocate storage to servers, configure Fibre Channel switches, and plan SAN capacity.
Provide operating-system-level support for system security and data recovery processes.
Use automation tools for application delivery and desktop support; manage assets and monitor performance and event notifications.
Coordinate activities, status updates, outage notifications, and schedule information.
Perform account maintenance and troubleshoot network communications.
Maintain and document SAN cabling plans and network system documentation.
Install, configure, administer, and optimize server hardware and operating systems.
Design, implement, and maintain enterprise SAN, NAS, object, and hyperconverged storage solutions.
Provision and manage storage resources, including LUNs, volumes, shares, zoning, masking, and quotas.
Perform capacity planning, performance monitoring, and trend analysis to forecast growth and prevent resource constraints.
Plan and execute data replication, snapshot, and backup/recovery strategies supporting continuity of operations and disaster recovery objectives.
Conduct firmware, operating-system, and software upgrades and patching in accordance with change management procedures.
Plan and perform data migrations and technology refreshes with minimal service disruption.
Troubleshoot and resolve storage incidents as a Tier 3/4 escalation point, performing root cause analysis and corrective actions.
Develop and maintain architecture diagrams, configuration baselines, standard operating procedures, and runbooks.
Manage vendor support cases, hardware maintenance, and asset lifecycle tracking.
Provide input to engineering change proposals, technical solutions, and cost estimates.
Interface with users.