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

Agile Defense•Pocatello, ID

8d•$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 a focus on high availability, security, performance, and operational excellence. The engineer serves as a subject matter expert for storage environments supporting bare-metal and virtualized workloads. The position is located in Pocatello, Idaho, and requires an active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility, plus the ability to obtain and maintain a CI polygraph. The work takes place in an office and datacenter environment. The stated salary range is $170,000–$190,000 per year.

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 and the ability to obtain and maintain a CI polygraph.
Strong 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.
Ability to follow rigorous change management processes in production environments.
Basic Windows Server storage-related experience with NTFS security, ACLs, VSS snapshots, DFS, and POSIX.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s degree.
Certifications from leading storage vendors such as DellEMC, Hitachi, EverPure, Cohesity, and others.
Advanced mainstream storage vendor certification(s).
Experience with Pure Storage, NetApp, Cohesity, object storage (S3), or related tools.

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 storage security, backup, redundancy, and availability strategies, including verifying replication, failover copies, and multi-factor 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 RAID, tiering/HSM, caching, compression, deduplication, replication, snapshots, multipathing, thin provisioning, and block, file, and object storage use cases.
Create and maintain storage configurations for bare-metal systems and virtual machines, including working with vSphere.
Monitor systems to identify and resolve 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, liaise with vendors and other 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.
Deliver 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 the design of information and operational support systems.