Storage Engineer (TS/SCI)

Vantor•Herndon, VA

3d•$120,000 - $176,000•Onsite

About The Position

Vantor is seeking a Storage Engineer to support the development and integration of intelligence capabilities into test and operational environments. The role designs, deploys, and sustains enterprise storage solutions for high-performance computing (HPC), private-cloud platforms, and mission applications. The Storage Engineer works across the storage lifecycle, including architecture, capacity planning, deployment, operations, troubleshooting, and disaster recovery. The role helps ensure storage services are available, secure, scalable, and capable of meeting mission performance requirements. The position is 100% full time and in person in a high-security environment, supporting secure, mission-critical systems across test and operational environments. The program team builds and maintains mission applications supported by self-managed HPC infrastructure on a private-cloud system. Its work spans the technology stack, from hardware and infrastructure through platform services and user interfaces, and involves collaboration across engineering, operations, and development in secure environments.

Requirements

Current Top Secret/SCI security clearance with CI polygraph; clearance status will be verified, and applicants without the required active clearance are ineligible.
Meet DoD 8570 IAT Level II requirements within one month of the start date through Security+ CE, CND, SSCP, GSEC, GICSP, CySA+, or CCNA Security.
Bachelor of Science degree in a technical field from an accredited university, or three additional years of storage operations experience in lieu of the degree.
Eight years of related experience supporting Intelligence Community (IC) or Department of Defense (DoD) systems.
At least five years of experience in storage operations or storage engineering.
Experience with backup solutions, storage infrastructure, storage systems, and systems architecture.
Experience administering, architecting, and supporting SANs throughout their full lifecycle.
Experience monitoring storage utilization, planning capacity, and adjusting storage requirements.
Ability to troubleshoot complex infrastructure issues and communicate findings to technical teams and stakeholders.
Strong documentation, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.
U.S. citizenship is required.
Ability to work full time in person in a high-security environment.

Nice To Haves

Experience working in an air-gapped, disconnected environment.
Experience supporting virtualized environments such as VMware, OpenShift, or OpenStack.
In-depth knowledge of Dell/EMC storage solutions and hyperconverged infrastructure.
Experience administering Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Experience installing and maintaining physical hardware systems in data centers.
Knowledge across multiple technology areas, including storage, virtualization, networking, data migration, and disaster recovery.
Experience supporting HPC or private-cloud infrastructure in secure, classified, or restricted environments.

Responsibilities

Design, deploy, configure, and manage enterprise storage systems for secure, mission-critical environments.
Ensure storage solutions provide high availability, redundancy, data integrity, and disaster recovery across multiple data centers and physical sites.
Monitor and optimize storage performance, capacity, and scalability while minimizing service interruptions.
Administer storage area networks (SANs), including monitoring utilization, planning capacity, and adjusting allocations to meet changing requirements.
Assess, update, and patch infrastructure to maintain performance, security, and compliance with organizational standards.
Troubleshoot storage performance bottlenecks, connectivity problems, hardware failures, and data-access failures; conduct root-cause analysis and recommend corrective actions.
Support backup and recovery capabilities and participate in disaster-recovery planning and testing.
Develop and maintain storage architecture documentation, configurations, procedures, and operational guidance.
Support security initiatives and ensure storage systems comply with applicable security policies, regulations, and best practices.
Evaluate storage technologies and recommend solutions to improve performance, efficiency, reliability, and scalability.
Collaborate with systems, platform, virtualization, networking, and application teams to integrate storage services into HPC and private-cloud environments.
Support storage deployments and operations in test and operational environments.
Work full time in person in a high-security environment.