Senior Backup / Storage Administrator - Security Clearance Required

Peraton; Missouri; On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Senior Backup and Storage Engineer, where you will play a pivotal role in supporting critical missions for the US Marine Corps. This position involves managing hybrid cloud data center operations, ensuring secure and reliable storage, backup, and disaster recovery solutions. You will work with cutting-edge technologies like Dell Unity and NetApp, and collaborate with diverse teams to enhance operational capabilities. Your expertise will be vital in maintaining high-availability environments and ensuring compliance with stringent security standards. Embrace this opportunity to make a significant impact in a dynamic and challenging environment.

Qualifications

• 10-12 years experience with a BS degree or equivalent experience.
• IAT II Certification required for this role.

Responsibilities

• Manage storage, backup, archive, and capacity activities in hybrid-cloud environments.
• Engineer and maintain on-premises and cloud-integrated storage and backup systems.

Skills

NetBackup

Dell Unity Storage

NetApp SAN/NAS

Cisco MDS

Brocade Fibre Channel Switches

VMWare NSX-T

vSAN

vRealize Operations

DOD-secure configurations

ITSM / ITIL processes

Education

BS degree

MS degree

PhD

HS diploma with experience

Tools

Azure

AWS

VMWare Cloud on AWS

Tape-archiving solutions

Proactive monitoring tools

Job description

We are seeking a Senior Backup and Storage Engineer to do the following :

• Support US Marine Corps (USMC) enterprise-level hybrid cloud data center and deliver reliable, secure, effective storage, backup, and archiving capabilities.
• Enable USMC worldwide customers to execute critical missions.

What you will do :

As a Senior Backup and Storage Engineer, you will support USMC customers worldwide by providing critical backup, storage, archive, and disaster recovery solutions for the USMC enterprise application hosting environment.

• Manage Storage, Backup, Archive, and Capacity activities across Classified, Unclassified, Staging environments on-premises and in hybrid-cloud environments including Azure, AWS, and VMWare Cloud on AWS.
• Engineer, troubleshoot, operate, and maintain on-premises and cloud-integrated storage, backup, and tape-archiving systems.
• Monitor, triage, prioritize, and assign incidents and work orders as part of Data Center workload and incident response processes.
• Develop, document, submit, and execute changes to the storage and backup infrastructure.
• Provide secure, reliable, high-availability storage and backup services for hosted customers and data center infrastructure.
• Manage capacity reporting and monitoring to ensure successful data center hosting service delivery and support evolving architecture and customer requirements.
• Serve as the technical expert in the design, engineering, operation, sustainment, and modification of on-premises and cloud-based Storage Area Networks and associated firmware, hardware, applications, and backup infrastructure to support recovery of data and systems across all supported environments.
• Collaborate with other teams to provide Disaster Recovery and Continuity of Operations capabilities in line with the program roadmap.
• Coordinate with vendors and government engineering staff for installation, upgrade, configuration, administration, automation, and optimization of storage and backup infrastructure.
• Develop and maintain storage, backup, and capacity monitoring plans, and provide documentation and training for troubleshooting and incident response.
• Ensure system security in compliance with DOD / USMC / HCS policies, including patching and auditing.
• Automate environment management including routine checks, reporting, event notifications, software updates, and service packs.
• Plan for capacity needs, monitor, and submit recommendations for expansion or contraction requirements.
• Support 24/7 operations, including on-call duties and occasional night and weekend patching or implementations.

Qualifications :

• BS degree with 10-12 years, MS with 8-10 years, PhD with 5-7 years, or HS diploma plus 16 years of experience.
• IAT II Certification required.
• Experience with NetBackup or hybrid-cloud backup solutions required.
• Senior-level experience with technologies such as Dell Unity Storage, NetApp SAN/NAS, Cisco MDS, Brocade Fibre Channel Switches, VMWare NSX-T, vSAN, vRealize Operations, and DOD-secure configurations (STIG, FIPS).
• Experience with tape-archiving solutions and implementing DOD/USMC security solutions.
• Proficiency in automating tasks for high-availability storage and backup environments.
• Strong understanding of ITSM / ITIL processes and change management.
• Experience working within Agile and traditional project teams.
• Leadership and collaboration skills within diverse operational and process teams.

Preferred Qualifications :

• Experience operating, troubleshooting, and maintaining SAN/NAS systems like NetBackup, Dell Unity, NetApp, HP 3PAR, StoreEver/StoreOnce.
• Experience integrating cloud storage solutions (Azure, AWS, VMC on AWS).
• Experience with proactive monitoring and incident management tools like vROPS.
• Experience collaborating with virtual and operational teams, including Oracle and SQL environments.