Storage Engineer
About The Position
Galapagos Federal Systems LLC is seeking an enthusiastic and well-qualified Storage Engineer to design, deploy, and sustain enterprise storage and network-attached storage solutions in classified and unclassified environments. This role provides Tier 3 engineering support for storage systems, ensuring high availability, data integrity, performance, and recoverability across enterprise and wide area network environments. The Storage Engineer is responsible for storage architecture, capacity planning, replication strategies, patching, troubleshooting, and data recovery while supporting modernization efforts and project integration in compliance with DoD and Intelligence Community standards.
Requirements
- Active Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) security clearance
- 8+ years of experience supporting enterprise storage environments within the Department of Defense (DoD) or Intelligence Community (IC)
- Strong hands-on experience with Network-Attached Storage (NAS) and Storage Area Networks (SAN) and Data replication, backup, and disaster recovery solutions
- Experience troubleshooting complex storage, replication, and performance issues across Wide Area Network (WAN) environments
- Familiarity with Patch management and system updates, High-availability and fault-tolerant storage architectures, and Disaster recovery (DR) and Continuity of Operations (COOP) planning
- Experience analyzing storage performance issues and implementing optimization solutions
- Experience providing Tier 3 engineering support and mentoring junior technical staff
- Experience supporting large-scale enterprise or Intelligence Community storage environments
- Experience working in high-availability, mission-critical environments
- Ability to support after-hours, on-call, or emergency operations as required
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical discipline
- Equivalent experience may be substituted in lieu of a degree
Nice To Haves
- NetApp Certified Data Administrator (NCDA – ONTAP) or equivalent storage certification
- CompTIA Security+ CE
- Vendor-specific storage or virtualization certifications (Dell EMC, VMware, etc.)
Responsibilities
- Design, deploy, configure, and maintain enterprise storage and network storage appliances
- Provide Tier 3 support for storage systems and storage-related incidents
- Install system patches and perform storage platform updates
- Engineer and manage storage allocation, capacity planning, space utilization, and replication strategies
- Analyze and resolve complex issues related to storage systems and network storage solutions
- Troubleshoot and restore enterprise-wide storage and replication failures across wide area networks
- Perform data recovery operations to ensure system continuity and mission availability
- Monitor storage performance, availability, and utilization to prevent outages
- Provide technical recommendations for storage upgrades, enhancements, and life cycle improvements
- Support project integration efforts, migrations, and modernization initiatives
- Develop and maintain technical documentation, procedures, and recovery plans
- Ensure compliance with DoD cybersecurity, data protection, and operational requirements
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- 401(k)
- PTO
- Paid Parental Leave
- Tuition reimbursement
- Paid federal holidays
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
