Senior Storage Engineer III — Enterprise SAN/NAS Expert

Agile Defense, LLC

Pocatello (ID)

On-site

USD 170,000 - 190,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Job summary

Agile Defense is seeking a Senior Storage Engineer III to design, deploy, operate, and support enterprise storage infrastructure in mission‑critical environments. You will work across SAN, NAS and related technologies with a focus on high availability, security, performance, and operational excellence, supporting both bare‑metal and virtualized workloads.

The role requires 10+ years in enterprise storage, Top Secret with SCI eligibility and CI poly, and hands‑on experience with VMware/vSphere,

Qualifications

10+ years of experience with enterprise storage systems in large‑scale, mission‑critical IT environments.
Active Top Secret clearance with SCI Eligibility; must be capable of obtaining and maintaining CI-Poly.

Responsibilities

Design, implement, deploy, test, certify, patch, and provide ongoing support for highly available enterprise storage infrastructure, including SAN, NAS/NFS/SMB, Fibre Channel, iSCSI, tape, local disk, arrays, and related components, while addressing interoperability, performance, and feature dependencies.
Serve as the storage subject matter expert; evaluate, improve, and maintain security, backup, redundancy, and availability strategies across the storage infrastructure, including verification of replication, failover copies, and multi‑factor authentication integration.
Basic Windows Server storage‑related experience related NTFS security, ACLs, VSS snapshots, DFS, and POSIX.
Perform file‑based data migrations using tools such as Robocopy and Rsync, following methodical change processes to minimize risk and downtime.
Implement and maintain core storage technologies, including RAID, tiering/HSM, caching, compression, deduplication, replication, snapshots, multipathing, thin provisioning, and support for block, file, and object storage use cases.
Create and maintain storage configurations for bare‑metal and virtual machines including working experience with vSphere
Monitor systems to identify and resolve hardware failures, performance bottlenecks, and capacity issues; configure proactive alerts and recovery processes.
Install, configure, and maintain management tools, SAN infrastructure, plugins, firmware, and patches.
Develop and maintain custom scripts (including automated provisioning and Infrastructure as a Service workflows) to improve operational efficiency.
Provide final‑level support, liaise with vendors and other IT teams for cross‑team resolution, and collaborate with developers on application performance.
Maintain comprehensive, regularly updated technical documentation covering inventory, configurations, patch levels, hostnames, IP addresses, hardware details, access controls, certificates, and service accounts.
Integrate storage solutions with Windows and Linux environments.
Deliver real-time reporting on provisioned/utilized capacity, performance metrics, and trends.
Transfer knowledge to team members through training and documentation following industry best practices.
Participate in the design of information and operational support systems.