Senior Storage Architect – NetApp, SAN/NAS, DoD TS/SCI

JCS Solutions LLC; Fort Belvoir (VA); On-site; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Paid time off (PTO)

401k retirement plan with employer mat

Professional Development Reimbursement

And more!

Job summary

JCS Solutions LLC is seeking a Senior Storage Engineer to lead design, implementation, and optimization of enterprise storage platforms at Fort Belvoir, VA. The role emphasizes high availability, performance, security, and operational resilience across SAN/NAS environments.

The candidate will oversee NetApp, Dell EMC, and Hitachi arrays, drive storage provisioning, and mentor junior staff while ensuring compliance with DoD security standards and industry best practices.

Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI clearance required at time of hire.
• DoD 8570.11-IAT Level II certification requirements (Security+ CE, CCNA-Security, GSEC, or SSCP).
• Bachelor’s degree with 8–12 years of relevant experience or Master’s with 6–10 years.
• Advanced knowledge of storage systems architecture and lifecycle engineering.
• Demonstrated experience with NetApp, Dell EMC, Hitachi, VMware vSAN and other storage technologies.

Responsibilities

• Lead the engineering, administration, and support of enterprise storage environments, focusing on NetApp and Dell Unity platforms.
• Designs and maintains highly available, scalable storage solutions for file, block, and hybrid workloads.
• Perform provisioning, configuration, upgrades, migrations, and decommissioning of storage systems.
• Manage and optimize storage environments including aggregates, volumes, SVMs, snapshots, replication, quotas, tiering, and protocol configuration.
• Administer NetApp, Dell EMC, and Hitachi storage arrays and related components.
• Support SAN/NAS infrastructure including Fibre Channel, iSCSI, NFS, and SMB/CIFS protocols.
• Ensure DISA STIG and DoD security compliance; lead hardening efforts.
• Monitor storage health, capacity, utilization, and performance; identify trends and remediation strategies.
• Troubleshoot storage, replication, latency, pathing, and connectivity across hosts and networks.
• Plan and execute data migrations with minimal downtime; implement DR/BC capabilities.

Skills

Storage architecture

SAN/NAS

Troubleshooting

Team leadership

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in STEM

Master’s degree

Tools

NetApp

Dell EMC

Hitachi

VMware vSphere

VMware vSAN

NetBackup

Commvault

Veeam

Ansible

PowerCLI

Job description

JCS Solutions LLC is seeking a Senior Storage Engineer to lead design, implementation, and optimization of enterprise storage platforms at Fort Belvoir, VA. The role emphasizes high availability, performance, security, and operational resilience across SAN/NAS environments.

The candidate will oversee NetApp, Dell EMC, and Hitachi arrays, drive storage provisioning, and mentor junior staff while ensuring compliance with DoD security standards and industry best practices.