Senior Storage Engineer III – TS Clearance Eligible

Edgewater Federal Solutions, Inc.; Huntsville (AL); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Edgewater Federal Solutions, Inc. is building a talent pipeline for a Principal Storage Engineer III to support critical national missions in federal programs. The role focuses on enterprise storage, data management, and infrastructure resilience.

Successful candidates will have extensive storage experience, relevant certifications, and eligibility or holding an active Top Secret clearance. Opportunities span projects across multiple sites, with sponsorship for clearance if required.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of storage related experience.
• Must have active Top-Secret Clearance or be eligible.
• Advanced mainstream storage vendor certification preferred.
• Bachelor’s degree preferred but not required.
• Experience managing and maintaining mainframe storage systems using the FICON protocol is highly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Supporting highly available enterprise grade storage arrays and storage networking equipment.
• NAS/file storage protocols such as SMB/CIFS, NFS v3 and v4.
• ISCSI and/or Fibre Channel Fabric connections to switches and arrays.
• Windows Server OS and Active Directory/LDAP/DNS/NTP/Kerberos impacting network file system storage access in Windows.
• Windows NTFS security settings, Windows ACLs, VSS snapshots.
• POSIX OS ACLs/mode-bits related to file system permissions.
• Managing Windows DFS for SMB HA.
• File-based data migrations using Robocopy and Rsync.
• Methodical change management to avoid risk and downtime.
• Understanding RAID, disk tech, tiering, cache, deduplication, replication, snapshots, multipathing.
• Knowledge of block, file, and object storage use cases.
• Familiarity with virtualization including VMware vCenter/vSphere/vSAN and thin provisioning/storage reduction.
• Experience with Cohesity, Pure Storage, Dell EMC, S3, NetApp and equivalent platforms is a plus.

Skills

Top Secret Clearance

Education

Bachelor’s degree preferred

Tools

Cohesity

Pure Storage FlashArray

FlashBlade

Dell EMC

S3 object protocols

Dell Compellent

NetApp

EMC VNX

Isilon

Hitachi Arrays

Hitachi Command Suite

Job description

Edgewater Federal Solutions, Inc. is building a talent pipeline for a Principal Storage Engineer III to support critical national missions in federal programs. The role focuses on enterprise storage, data management, and infrastructure resilience.

Successful candidates will have extensive storage experience, relevant certifications, and eligibility or holding an active Top Secret clearance. Opportunities span projects across multiple sites, with sponsorship for clearance if required.