Storage Engineer (TS/SCI)

Vantor•Herndon, VA

2d•Onsite

About The Position

Vantor is seeking a Storage Engineer to develop and integrate 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. It spans the storage lifecycle, including architecture, capacity planning, deployment, operations, troubleshooting, and disaster recovery, with the goal of keeping storage services available, secure, scalable, and capable of meeting mission performance requirements. The position is part of a multidisciplinary software development and systems administration team that builds and maintains mission applications on self-managed HPC infrastructure in a private-cloud system. The team works across the technology stack, from hardware and infrastructure through platform services and user interfaces, integrating and sustaining capabilities in secure environments. The role works full-time in person in a high-security environment. Applicants must be U.S. citizens and hold an active Top Secret/SCI clearance with CI polygraph. Cleared-role employment is contingent upon verification of clearance status. Certain roles may also be subject to U.S. export-control laws requiring U.S.-person status. The base pay range for the Washington, DC metropolitan area is $120,000–$160,000–$176,000 annually. Pay is determined by factors including experience, qualifications, skills, location, and market conditions; other locations may have different ranges.

Requirements

Current Top Secret/SCI security clearance with CI polygraph.
Meet DoD 8570 IAT Level II requirements within one month of the start date through at least one of these certifications: 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.

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 of 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), monitor utilization, plan capacity, and adjust storage allocations to meet changing requirements.
Perform infrastructure assessments, updates, and patches 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 that 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.