Secret-Cleared Storage Systems Engineer (SAN/BURA)

PGTEK; Fort Meade (MD); On-site; USD 130,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, vision & dental insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid time off and holidays

Education Assistance

Job summary

PGTEK is seeking an experienced Storage Systems Engineer to support a long-term federal program. You will manage enterprise SAN, backup & recovery, and modern storage platforms, ensuring high availability and data protection.

The role requires an active Secret clearance, US citizenship, and a Bachelor’s degree. Travel up to 20% and residence within 90 minutes of the listed sites is expected.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or equivalent.
• 5+ years of experience administering enterprise storage environments.
• Active Secret clearance, U.S. citizenship required.
• Experience with SAN, Fibre Channel, and iSCSI.
• Experience with enterprise backup platforms (Commvault, Veritas NetBackup, Dell NetWorker, Veeam, Rubrik, Cohesity).

Responsibilities

• Administer and support enterprise SAN infrastructure.
• Manage enterprise backup and recovery (BURA) solutions for data protection and business continuity.
• Install, configure, monitor, and troubleshoot storage systems.
• Perform storage provisioning, capacity planning, performance tuning, and lifecycle management.
• Configure storage replication, snapshots, cloning, and DR solutions.
• Monitor health and proactively resolve storage and backup issues.
• Support virtualization and server teams with storage connectivity and performance optimization.
• Participate in upgrades, migrations, patching, and technology refresh initiatives.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation and standard operating procedures.
• Participate in on-call support as required.
• Ensure compliance with federal security policies and organizational standards.
• 5+ years of experience administering storage environments.

Skills

SAN administration

Backup & recovery

Troubleshooting

Security/compliance

Scripting (PowerShell/Python/Bash)

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Technology / Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

HPE Alletra

HPE Primera

HPE Nimble Storage

Dell PowerStore

Dell PowerMax

Dell Unity XT

Pure Storage FlashArray

NetApp AFF

IBM FlashSystem

Commvault

Veritas NetBackup

Dell NetWorker

Veeam

Rubrik

Cohesity

VMware vSphere/ESXi

VMware vCenter

Windows Server

Linux

Job description

PGTEK is seeking an experienced Storage Systems Engineer to support a long-term federal program. You will manage enterprise SAN, backup & recovery, and modern storage platforms, ensuring high availability and data protection.

The role requires an active Secret clearance, US citizenship, and a Bachelor’s degree. Travel up to 20% and residence within 90 minutes of the listed sites is expected.