Data Storage Engineer

Base-2 Solutions, LLC; Bethesda (MD); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Base-2 Solutions, LLC seeks a Data Storage Engineer to support the NDOC at the Intelligence Community Campus in Bethesda, MD. You will design scalable storage architectures across on‑prem and cloud, manage backups, DR, and lifecycle planning for multi‑petabyte environments.

The role requires DoD 8570.11 IAT Level II knowledge, TS/SCI clearance, and the ability to work independently in a 24/7 setting while mentoring junior team members.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience administering enterprise storage systems.
• Experience with Veritas Rubrik and storage backup solutions.
• PowerShell scripting experience for automation.
• Working knowledge of Unix/Linux operating systems.
• Familiarity with DFS and NAS/SAN storage architectures.
• US Citizenship and active DoD clearance is required.
• Must meet DoD 8570.11 IAT Level II or higher.
• Ability to work independently in a 24/7/365 mission environment.

Responsibilities

• Design scalable storage architectures spanning on‑prem and cloud.
• Develop reference designs and roadmaps aligned with mission needs.
• Perform analyses for storage modernization and trade studies.
• Engineer lifecycle replacements balancing risk and cost.
• Create architecture diagrams, low‑level designs, and data mappings.
• Apply systems engineering to ensure performance and resilience.
• Analyze dependencies, risks, and mitigation strategies.
• Provide capacity forecasting and lifecycle planning dashboards.
• Support disaster recovery and data protection architectures.
• Install, configure, and administer Dell EMC, Quantum and Rubrik storage stacks.
• Manage SAN/NAS integrations with VMware ESX and vCenter.
• Configure and monitor backups, snapshots, and replication.
• Collaborate with server engineers for NFS/SMB exports and mounts.
• Lead continuous improvement and automation initiatives.

Skills

Veritas Rubrik

PowerShell

Unix/Linux

DFS

VMware ESX

Automation scripting

Communication

Mentor others

DoD 8570 IAT II

Education

Bachelor’s degree + 8 years

Master’s degree + 6 years

Associate’s degree + 12 years

High School Diploma + 14 years

Tools

Dell EMC

Quantum

Rubrik

Cisco Fibre Channel

Brocade switch

VMware vCenter

Job description

Position Summary

Base-2 Solutions is seeking a Data Storage Engineer to support the National Digital Exploitation & OSINT Center (NDOC) at the Intelligence Community Campus in Bethesda, Maryland. The role provides storage engineering, systems administration, architecture, lifecycle planning, operations, and optimization across on-premises and cloud environments. The engineer will support enterprise storage availability, performance, capacity, resilience, disaster recovery, documentation, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Design and engineer scalable enterprise storage architectures supporting performance, resiliency, high availability, and mission growth requirements across on-premises and cloud environments.
• Develop logical and physical storage architectures, reference designs, and engineering roadmaps aligned with mission requirements and future capacity demands.
• Perform systems design and engineering analysis for storage modernization initiatives, including solution trade studies, technology evaluations, and engineering recommendations.
• Engineer lifecycle replacement strategies for enterprise storage infrastructure while balancing risk, obsolescence, cost, and operational continuity.
• Develop and maintain engineering artifacts, including architecture diagrams, low-level designs, interface documentation, data flow mappings, and implementation plans.
• Apply systems engineering principles to storage integration, interoperability, performance optimization, and infrastructure resilience.
• Analyze system dependencies, failure modes, and technical risks, and develop mitigation strategies to improve reliability and supportability.
• Engineer and optimize storage solutions for multi-petabyte environments supporting virtualization, GPU- and compute-intensive workloads, and mission-critical applications.
• Provide engineering support for performance modeling, capacity forecasting, and lifecycle planning using operational metrics and trend analysis.
• Contribute to disaster recovery architecture, data protection engineering, and continuity solution design for enterprise storage services.
• Install, configure, and administer enterprise storage systems from multiple vendors, including Dell EMC and Quantum.
• Install, configure, and administer Rubrik server and client software; schedule and monitor backup policies; and generate backup status reports.
• Administer Cisco Brocade Fibre Channel switch fabrics, configure single-initiator zone sets, and monitor switch utilization and performance.
• Create and secure SMB file shares.
• Coordinate with server administrators to create, secure, and mount NFS exports.
• Develop and implement disaster recovery and Continuity of Operations plans in accordance with customer requirements.
• Install, configure, maintain, and administer Linux and Windows servers supporting storage operations, including Rubrik, Media, DSM, and Master servers.
• Build capacity management dashboards that improve visibility into enterprise storage use, health, and resilience and support infrastructure lifecycle replacement planning.
• Configure Rubrik policies and troubleshoot and resolve backup job failures.
• Coordinate with vCenter administrators to provision Storage Area Network resources to VMware ESX cluster datastores.
• Configure and manage volume snapshots and assist customers with point-in-time file restores.
• Schedule and monitor volume replication for disaster recovery.
• Monitor the health and availability of infrastructure applications and systems.
• Work with vendors to troubleshoot and resolve hardware and software failures.
• Coordinate with Change Management to deconflict and schedule hardware maintenance activities, system and firmware updates, and other configuration changes.
• Execute system changes during scheduled maintenance windows.
• Monitor and evaluate system performance and capacity trends.
• Resolve Tier 2 and Tier 3 service requests.
• Identify opportunities to automate operations and develop automated solutions using Dell and NetApp system APIs.
• Seek opportunities for continuous improvement to support effective and efficient operations.
• Work with cloud storage solutions as needed for cloud applications.
• Work independently with minimal supervision.
• Mentor junior team members.

Required Qualifications

• Relevant data storage engineering and administration experience meeting an applicable education and experience pathway in the equivalency section.
• Extensive experience managing and administering Veritas Rubrik.
• Experience with scripting technologies such as PowerShell.
• Working knowledge of Unix- or Linux-based operating systems.
• Working knowledge of Distributed File System (DFS).
• Excellent communication skills.
• Ability to mentor junior team members.
• Ability to complete complex projects with minimal direction.
• Experience working independently to support a 24/7/365 customer environment.
• Experience contributing to deliverables and meeting performance metrics.
• Experience coordinating with senior management and customers.
• Candidate must, at a minimum, meet DoD 8570.11 IAT Level II certification requirements.
• Extensive experience administering enterprise-level data storage systems.
• SAN administration, including provisioning LUNs, managing Fibre Channel zoning, and mapping storage to servers.
• NAS administration, including NFS and SMB file sharing.
• Integration with VMware ESX Server.
• Knowledge of data migration strategies.
• Knowledge of snapshots.
• Knowledge of volume replication.
• Experience managing file and share permissions in an Active Directory environment.
• Knowledge of storage monitoring and performance tuning.
• Understanding of cloud storage management.
• US Citizenship is required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Dell Storage Center, Dell Compellent, and Data Domain.
• Familiarity with model-based or traditional systems engineering disciplines, architecture frameworks, and engineering documentation practices.
• Experience with disaster recovery and COOP storage backup and recovery within and across data centers and the cloud.
• Ability to analyze cloud migration approaches to support customer decision-making for effective and efficient cloud migrations.
• Experience managing Distributed File System (DFS) namespaces.

Required Education and Experience Equivalency

• Bachelor’s degree with 8 years of relevant experience.
• Master’s degree with 6 years of relevant experience.
• Associate’s degree with 12 years of related experience.
• High School Diploma with 14 years of related experience.

Required Certifications

• Candidate must, at a minimum, meet DoD 8570.11 IAT Level II certification requirements (currently Security CE, CCNA-Security, GSEC, or SSCP along with an appropriate computing environment (CE) certification).

Required Security Clearance

• Active Top Secret/SCI