High-Performance IT Storage Engineer (NetApp/Pure/VAST)

United States Digital Space LLC; Brownsville (FL); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking an experienced IT Storage Engineer to design and maintain enterprise storage infrastructure across multiple tiers, including high-performance, capacity, archive, and DR.

You will work with NetApp, Pure Storage, Vast, and HPE Alletra in on-prem environments; responsibilities include monitoring, troubleshooting, automation with Python/PowerShell/Ansible, and collaboration with compute, networking, and application teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, or other STEM discipline and 3+ years of professional IT storage engineering experience; OR 5+ years of IT storage engineering experience in lieu of a degree.
• Experience with enterprise storage platforms: NetApp, Pure Storage, Vast, HPE Alletra.
• Strong understanding of storage protocols: NFS, CIFS/SMB, iSCSI, and NVMe over TCP.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain storage infrastructure across multiple tiers: high-performance, capacity, archive, backup/recovery, and disaster recovery.
• Architect and operate high-throughput, low-latency storage and support exabyte scale file systems for simulation, telemetry, and high-concurrency workloads.
• Administer storage systems including NetApp, Pure FlashArray/FlashBlade, Vast, and HPE Alletra.
• Monitor and troubleshoot storage performance across the full stack: hardware, transport (RDMA), and protocol layers.
• Troubleshoot complex issues requiring understanding of interaction of protocols and OS.
• Manage storage access, data permissions, and access controls across protocols and OS.
• Develop automation and tooling for monitoring, capacity planning, configuration management, and alerting.
• Define and enforce standards for storage deployment, performance tuning, and operational management.
• Collaborate with compute, networking, and application teams to align storage strategies with workload requirements.
• Participate in scheduled maintenance, on-call rotation, and occasional physical installation of hardware.

Skills

NFS

CIFS/SMB

iSCSI

NVMe over TCP

Python

PowerShell

Ansible

Virtualization

DFS administration

Network knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, or STEM

Tools

NetApp

Pure Storage

Vast

HPE Alletra

Job description

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking an experienced IT Storage Engineer to design and maintain enterprise storage infrastructure across multiple tiers, including high-performance, capacity, archive, and DR.

You will work with NetApp, Pure Storage, Vast, and HPE Alletra in on-prem environments; responsibilities include monitoring, troubleshooting, automation with Python/PowerShell/Ansible, and collaboration with compute, networking, and application teams.