Senior Storage Architect: NetApp, SAN/NAS, TS/SCI

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

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Equal opportunity employer

Job summary

SarelaTech is seeking an experienced Senior Storage Engineer to design, implement, and optimize enterprise storage across Fort Belvoir, VA. You will lead storage provisioning, performance tuning, and DR readiness for SAN/NAS environments while ensuring security and compliance with DoD requirements.

The role requires hands-on expertise with NetApp, Dell EMC, Hitachi arrays, VMware vSAN, and related tools, plus strong problem-solving and mentoring skills to guide junior staff.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with 8-12 years of experience or master's with 6-10 years of experience.
• Current Top Secret/SCI clearance at time of consideration.
• Must meet DoD 8570.11 IAT Level II certification requirements at time of consideration.
• Advanced knowledge of storage systems architecture and lifecycle engineering.
• Experience with NetApp, Dell EMC, Hitachi, VMware vSAN and related storage tech.
• Strong enterprise computing and server virtualization experience.
• Knowledge of SANs, Fibre Channel, and storage technologies.
• Familiarity with DISA STIGs, system hardening, and DoD compliance.
• Ability to develop storage standards and runbooks, and produce architecture documentation.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across systems, virtualization, and storage layers.

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering, administration, and support of enterprise storage environments with NetApp and Dell Unity focus.
• Design and maintain highly available, scalable storage solutions for file, block, and hybrid workloads.
• Provision, configure, upgrade, migrate, and decommission storage systems.
• Manage aggregates, volumes, SVMs, snapshots, replication, quotas, tiering, and protocol configuration.
• Administer NetApp, Dell EMC, Hitachi storage arrays and host connectivity.
• Support SAN/NAS infrastructure including FC, iSCSI, NFS, and SMB/CIFS.
• Ensure DISA STIG and DoD security compliance and lead hardening efforts.
• Monitor storage health, capacity, utilization, and performance; plan remediation or expansion.
• Troubleshoot storage, replication, latency, pathing, and connectivity issues across hosts.
• Plan data migrations with minimal downtime; implement DR capabilities and testing.
• Mentor junior administrators and develop storage architecture documentation.
• Evaluate emerging storage solutions to optimize performance and efficiency.
• Collaborate with vendors for troubleshooting and resolution.

Skills

Storage architecture

SAN/NAS administration

Troubleshooting

Security/compliance

Mentoring/leadership

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related field

Master's degree

Tools

NetApp

Dell EMC

Hitachi

VMware vSAN

VMware vSphere

NetBackup

Commvault

Veeam

Ansible

PowerCLI

Job description

SarelaTech is seeking an experienced Senior Storage Engineer to design, implement, and optimize enterprise storage across Fort Belvoir, VA. You will lead storage provisioning, performance tuning, and DR readiness for SAN/NAS environments while ensuring security and compliance with DoD requirements.

The role requires hands-on expertise with NetApp, Dell EMC, Hitachi arrays, VMware vSAN, and related tools, plus strong problem-solving and mentoring skills to guide junior staff.