Senior Storage Engineer (5015) (US, DC, Tampa, San Antonio) (Secret)

SMX•Tampa, FL

12h

About The Position

The SMX Space and Intelligence (S&I) Business Unit (BU) is on the ground floor across the future remote sensing ecosystem for all orbital regimes (LEO, MEO, HEO, and GEO). We build, integrate, and operationally support our customer's emerging space-ground systems to include real-time data processing frameworks, sensor data processing, and data visualization. We are teamed with the most passionate companies in industry, dedicated to bringing best-of-breed capabilities to address our customers most pressing needs. We have an immediate opportunity for a Senior Storage Engineer who is excited to apply their talents to our customer's challenging project and one who will thrive in a collaborative environment. The ideal candidate is a recognized professional with hands-on expertise and an excellent understanding of engineering processes supporting large, National Defense, Agile software development programs. Work will be performed in Colorado. Please apply to this role if you have interest in relocating to Colorado.

Requirements

Secret clearance
7+ years professional experience performing duties of a datacenter engineer
CompTIA Security + (Plus) Certification
Deep expertise in NAS (NFS, SMB), SAN (Fibre Channel, iSCSI), and NVMe over TCP
Strong knowledge of storage protocols, multipathing, zoning, and LUN masking.
Familiarity with storage monitoring tools (e.g., SolarWinds, Nagios, Grafana, or vendor-specific tools).
Direct experience configuring and supporting NAS and/or SAN storage appliances including Dell Powerscale, Powerstore and/or Unity Proven experience designing and supporting high-availability storage solutions.
Deep understanding of performance metrics (IOPS, latency, throughput) and tuning methodologies.
Experience with DR solutions, storage replication (sync/async), and snapshot technologies.
A Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, information technology or related field
Demonstrated attention to detail
Good verbal and written communication skills

Nice To Haves

Active DoD TS/SCI clearance
In-depth knowledge and experience with Cohesity or Veeam backup solutions
Experience with VMWare compute, storage, and network configurations
Experience with on-prem, hybrid and cloud environments supporting kubernetes environments
Expert understanding of LAN/WAN principles and protocols, including BGP routing

Responsibilities

Design and implement scalable enterprise storage architectures across SAN, NAS, and NVMe-over-TCP.
Lead architecture reviews and capacity planning for high-performance and high-availability storage systems.
Deploy and manage storage infrastructure using technologies such as Fibre Channel, iSCSI, NVMe over TCP, and RAID.
Drive adoption of next-generation storage solutions including all-flash and NVMe-based systems.
Monitor and fine-tune storage systems for latency, throughput, and IOPS performance.
Perform root cause analysis and resolve performance bottlenecks across compute and storage layers.
Architect and test failover and high-availability solutions for business continuity.
Implement replication, snapshot, and backup strategies in line with RPO/RTO objectives.
Provide Level 3 support for storage-related incidents and changes.
Maintain up-to-date documentation of storage configurations and runbooks.
Work closely with infrastructure, network, security, and application teams to support business needs.
Other duties as assigned