Senior Storage Architect (TS/SCI) – NetApp/Dell EMC

Defense Engineering Inc.

Fort Belvoir (VA)

On-site

USD 120,000 - 180,000

Full time

6 days ago

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Job summary

Defense Engineering Inc. in Fort Belvoir, VA is seeking an experienced Senior Storage Engineer to design, deploy, administer, and optimize enterprise storage platforms across production and non-production systems.

You will manage NetApp, Dell EMC, and Hitachi arrays, SAN/NAS, and data protection strategies, ensuring data availability, performance, and security while complying with DISA STIGs. The role requires strong problem-solving, collaboration with cross-functional teams, and mentoring

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree with 8–12 years experience or Master’s with 6–10 years experience.
Current Top Secret/SCI clearance.
DoD 8570.11-IAT Level II certs (Security+ CE, CCNA-Security, GSEC or SSCP).
Advanced knowledge of storage systems architecture and lifecycle engineering.

Responsibilities

Lead engineering, administration, and support of enterprise storage environments (NetApp, Dell EMC, Hitachi).
Design and maintain highly available, scalable storage solutions for file, block, and hybrid workloads.
Provision, configure, upgrade, migrate, and decommission storage systems.
Manage and optimize storage environments (aggregates, volumes, SVMs, snapshots, replication, tiering).
Administer NetApp, Dell EMC, and Hitachi arrays, including pools, LUNs, file systems, NAS servers, snapshots, replication, FAST VP/tiering, and host connectivity.
Support SAN and NAS infrastructure (Fibre Channel, iSCSI, NFS, SMB/CIFS).
Ensure compliance with DISA STIG and DoD security requirements; lead hardening efforts.
Monitor storage health, capacity, utilization, and performance; identify trends; plan remediation or expansion.
Troubleshoot storage, replication, latency, pathing, and connectivity issues across hosts and networks.
Plan and execute data migrations with minimal downtime.
Implement business continuity and disaster recovery (snapshots, replication, failover, recovery testing).
Mentor junior staff; develop storage documentation and runbooks.
Evaluate emerging storage solutions to optimize performance and efficiency.
Collaborate with vendors/third parties for troubleshooting and resolution.