Senior System Engineer III (Storage) - Top Secret Clearance Required

Agile Defense•Pocatello, ID

9d•$170,000 - $190,000•Onsite

About The Position

Agile Defense is seeking an experienced Senior Storage Engineer III to design, deploy, operate, and support enterprise-grade storage infrastructure in complex, mission-critical environments. The role requires deep expertise across SAN, NAS, and related technologies, with an emphasis on high availability, security, performance, and operational excellence. The engineer will serve as a storage subject matter expert for environments supporting bare-metal and virtualized workloads. The position is based in Pocatello, Idaho, and requires an active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility, as well as the ability to obtain and maintain a CI polygraph. A bachelor’s degree is preferred. The role takes place in an office and datacenter environment and may require occasional team lifting of 50+ pounds. The listed salary range is $170,000–$190,000 per year. Agile Defense offers benefits that may depend on position, including health and life insurance, paid time off, holiday pay, short- and long-term disability, retirement, learning and development opportunities, and optional benefit elections.

Requirements

At least 10 years of experience with enterprise storage systems in large-scale, mission-critical IT environments.
Active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility.
Ability to obtain and maintain a CI polygraph.
Ability to follow rigorous change management processes in production environments.
Ability to sit and stand for extended periods.
Ability to occasionally lift 50+ pounds with team assistance.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s degree.
Certifications from leading storage vendors such as Dell EMC, Hitachi, EverPure, Cohesity, or others.
Advanced certifications from mainstream storage vendors.
Experience with platforms or technologies such as Pure Storage, NetApp, Cohesity, and S3 object storage or related tools.
Hands-on experience with enterprise storage arrays, SAN/NAS, Fibre Channel, iSCSI, and related protocols.
Functional knowledge of Windows Server, Active Directory integration for storage access, NTFS/POSIX permissions, and related technologies.
Understanding of RAID, replication, snapshots, multipathing, VMware storage, and data reduction techniques.

Responsibilities

Design, implement, deploy, test, certify, patch, and support highly available enterprise storage infrastructure, including SAN, NAS/NFS/SMB, Fibre Channel, iSCSI, tape, local disk, arrays, and related components.
Serve as the storage subject matter expert and evaluate, improve, and maintain infrastructure security, backup, redundancy, and availability strategies, including verification of replication, failover copies, and multifactor authentication integration.
Perform file-based data migrations using tools such as Robocopy and Rsync, following methodical change processes to minimize risk and downtime.
Implement and maintain storage technologies including RAID, tiering/HSM, caching, compression, deduplication, replication, snapshots, multipathing, thin provisioning, and block, file, and object storage.
Create and maintain storage configurations for bare-metal and virtual machines, including working with vSphere.
Monitor systems and address hardware failures, performance bottlenecks, and capacity issues; configure proactive alerts and recovery processes.
Install, configure, and maintain management tools, SAN infrastructure, plugins, firmware, and patches.
Develop and maintain custom scripts, including automated provisioning and Infrastructure as a Service workflows, to improve operational efficiency.
Provide final-level support, coordinate with vendors and IT teams to resolve cross-team issues, and collaborate with developers on application performance.
Maintain current technical documentation covering inventory, configurations, patch levels, hostnames, IP addresses, hardware details, access controls, certificates, and service accounts.
Integrate storage solutions with Windows and Linux environments.
Provide real-time reporting on provisioned and utilized capacity, performance metrics, and trends.
Transfer knowledge to team members through training and documentation, following industry best practices.
Participate in designing information and operational support systems.
Apply basic Windows Server storage knowledge related to NTFS security, ACLs, VSS snapshots, DFS, and POSIX.