Senior Enterprise Storage Engineer - Top Secret/SCI

Sarela Technology Solutions; Fort Belvoir (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

SarelaTech is seeking an experienced Senior Storage Engineer to design, implement, administer, and optimize enterprise storage platforms in Fort Belvoir, VA. The role ensures storage availability, performance, and security across production and non-production systems, with a focus on NetApp, Dell EMC, and Hitachi arrays.

The ideal candidate will have TS/SCI clearance, DoD compliance experience (STIG), and hands-on expertise in SAN/NAS, replication, DR testing, and automation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or higher in a technical field with extensive storage engineering experience.
• Current TS/SCI clearance and DoD 8570.11 IAT Level II certification required at time of consideration.
• Deep hands-on expertise with NetApp, Dell EMC, Hitachi storage arrays, and SAN/NAS environments.
• Experience with Fibre Channel, iSCSI, NFS/SMB protocols, and data protection technologies.
• Strong problem-solving, documentation, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, deployment, and management of enterprise storage environments.
• Optimize storage performance, capacity planning, and reliability across production/non-production.
• Plan and execute migrations with minimal downtime and risk.
• Implement DR/BCP practices including replication, snapshots, and failover testing.
• Mentor junior staff and maintain storage architecture runbooks and docs.

Skills

Storage engineering

SAN/NAS administration

Problem solving

Mentoring & teamwork

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering

TS/SCI clearance + IAT Level II cert

Tools

NetApp

Dell EMC

Hitachi storage

VMware vSAN

VMware vSphere

Veeam

Commvault

NetBackup

PowerCLI

Ansible

Job description

SarelaTech is seeking an experienced Senior Storage Engineer to design, implement, administer, and optimize enterprise storage platforms in Fort Belvoir, VA. The role ensures storage availability, performance, and security across production and non-production systems, with a focus on NetApp, Dell EMC, and Hitachi arrays.

The ideal candidate will have TS/SCI clearance, DoD compliance experience (STIG), and hands-on expertise in SAN/NAS, replication, DR testing, and automation.