Senior Storage Engineer

Global Enterprise Services, LLC•Fort Belvoir, VA

3d•$115,000 - $130,000

About The Position

GES is seeking an experienced Senior Storage Engineer to design, implement, administer, and optimize enterprise storage platforms in Fort Belvoir, Virginia. The role ensures storage availability, performance, scalability, security, and operational resilience across production and non-production systems. The position focuses primarily on NetApp and Dell Unity platforms and requires hands-on experience with storage architecture, SAN/NAS administration, data protection, performance tuning, lifecycle management, and cross-functional infrastructure support. Candidates must demonstrate strong problem-solving skills in a complex environment and communicate effectively with customers and team members. A current Top Secret/SCI clearance is required at the time of consideration.

Requirements

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 a degree.
Current Top Secret/SCI clearance at the time of consideration.
At minimum, meet DoD 8570.11 IAT Level II certification requirements at the time of consideration, such as Security+ CE, CCNA-Security, GSEC, or SSCP.
Advanced knowledge of storage systems architecture, lifecycle engineering, and infrastructure modernization principles.
Demonstrated experience with NetApp, Dell EMC, Hitachi, VMware vSAN, and other storage technologies.
Strong working knowledge of enterprise computing environments (physical, virtual, and hybrid) and server virtualization platforms such as VMware.
Working knowledge of VMware vSphere and backup technologies such as NetBackup, Commvault, and Veeam.
Strong knowledge of SANs, Fibre Channel fabric, and storage technologies.
Deep understanding of DISA STIGs, system hardening, and DoD security compliance frameworks.
Strong troubleshooting skills across systems, virtualization, and storage layers.
Ability to solve problems in a complex environment and communicate effectively with customers and team members.

Nice To Haves

Experience supporting large-scale Windows and Linux server environments.
ITIL 5 Foundation Certification.
Experience with storage migrations using native and third-party tools.
Knowledge of backup platforms such as Commvault, Veeam, NetBackup, or similar.
Familiarity with automation tools such as Ansible or PowerCLI.
Experience in regulated, highly available, or mission-critical environments.
Prior work within the Department of War and familiarity with its IT environments.

Responsibilities

Lead engineering, administration, and support of enterprise storage environments, primarily using NetApp and Dell Unity platforms.
Design and maintain highly available, scalable storage solutions for file, block, and hybrid workloads.
Provision, configure, upgrade, migrate, and decommission storage systems.
Manage and optimize storage environments, including aggregates, volumes, SVMs, snapshots, replication, quotas, tiering, and protocol configuration.
Administer NetApp, Dell EMC, and Hitachi storage arrays, including pools, LUNs, file systems, NAS servers, snapshots, replication, FAST VP/tiering, and host connectivity.
Support SAN and NAS infrastructure, including Fibre Channel, iSCSI, NFS, and SMB/CIFS protocols.
Lead storage hardening efforts and ensure compliance with DISA STIG and DoD security requirements.
Monitor storage health, capacity, utilization, and performance; identify trends and recommend remediation or expansion strategies.
Troubleshoot storage, replication, latency, pathing, and connectivity issues across hosts, hypervisors, and network fabrics.
Plan and execute data migrations between legacy and target storage platforms with minimal downtime.
Implement and support business continuity and disaster recovery capabilities, including snapshot policies, replication, failover, and recovery testing.
Mentor and guide junior administrators and team members in storage technologies.
Develop and maintain documentation related to storage architecture, processes, and procedures.
Evaluate and recommend emerging storage solutions to optimize performance and efficiency.
Support projects to enhance the security, efficiency, or capability of the storage environment.
Work with vendors and third-party providers to troubleshoot and resolve issues.
Develop storage standards, architecture documentation, operational procedures, and support runbooks.