Senior IT Storage Consultant: NetApp & Data Center Expert

Avid Technology Professionals, LLC; Laurel (MD); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Avid Technology Professionals, LLC seeks an Information Technology Senior Consultant 5 in Laurel, MD. This role requires hands-on NetApp experience and strong storage fundamentals across SAN/NAS, protocols, and security best practices.

The candidate will design, implement, and optimize storage and backup environments, support data center migrations, and ensure high availability across multiple data centers with cross-functional collaboration.

Qualifications

• Hands-on NetApp experience required.
• Experience with SAN/NAS storage concepts and related protocols (S3, CIFS, NFS, iSCSI, Fiber Channel).
• Experience with capacity planning and sizing storage/backup environments (Veritas NetBackup, Cohesity, Rubrik, CommVault).
• Experience in performance tuning and storage/backup optimization.
• Experience with data center migrations and storage replication technologies.
• Senior-level design, development, implementation, and maintenance of large-scale storage systems across multiple data centers.
• Strong HA concepts and practical implementation in storage environments.
• Strong understanding of hardware fundamentals (disk, memory, CPU, NIC, HBA, RAID, I/O).
• Strong TCP/IP knowledge (TCP/UDP/ICMP/SNMP/DNS/etc.).
• Experience connecting storage arrays to hypervisors (Nutanix, VMware VCF, OpenStack).
• Knowledge of security best practices and federal hardening (FISMA, STIG).
• CompTIA Security+ or similar for IAT Level II DoD 8570 compliance.
• Proficient written and oral communication; collaborative team player.
• Ability to take direction.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain large-scale storage systems.
• Perform capacity planning and optimize storage and backup environments.
• Lead data center migrations and storage replication initiatives.
• Ensure high availability and security in storage environments.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and communicate effectively.

Skills

NetApp storage

Storage concepts

S3, CIFS, NFS, iSCSI, FC

Capacity planning

Performance tuning

Data center migrations

Security hardening

DOD 8570 compliance

Written communication

Team collaboration

Tools

NetApp

Veritas NetBackup

Cohesity

Rubrik

CommVault

Nutanix

VMware VCF

OpenStack

Job description

Avid Technology Professionals, LLC seeks an Information Technology Senior Consultant 5 in Laurel, MD. This role requires hands-on NetApp experience and strong storage fundamentals across SAN/NAS, protocols, and security best practices.

The candidate will design, implement, and optimize storage and backup environments, support data center migrations, and ensure high availability across multiple data centers with cross-functional collaboration.