Senior Storage Engineer: SAN/NAS, Cloud & DR Ops

Jobtailor; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking an experienced Storage Administrator to manage SAN, NAS, and cloud-based storage platforms in a high-demand environment. You will provision storage, tune performance, and maintain runbooks, while ensuring security controls and audit logs are in place.

The role requires 5–7 years of advanced SAN/NAS experience, strong documentation, and collaboration with virtualization and database teams. On-site Nashville deployment with potential after-hours shifts and DR testing.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
• 5–7 years of progressive SAN/NAS storage experience.
• Advanced SAN administration experience, including zoning and fabric management.
• NAS administration experience, including CIFS/SMB, NFS, and Active Directory permissions.
• Strong backup and recovery operations experience, including on-premises and cloud-based solutions.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; thorough documentation.
• Incident response and multitasking capabilities; willingness to work after hours.

Responsibilities

• Manage daily operations of SAN, NAS, and cloud-based storage platforms.
• Provision storage, manage access, perform zoning/masking, tune performance, and execute lifecycle tasks.
• Maintain configuration standards, runbooks, procedures, asset inventories, mappings, and utilization records.
• Perform system health checks and validate firmware and code levels.
• Monitor storage health and performance and serve as escalation point for incidents.
• Lead root cause investigations and implement corrective actions.
• Participate in disaster recovery testing, and backup validation.
• Execute and improve snapshots, replication, and backup/restore operations aligned with RPO/RTO.
• Apply storage security controls, encryption policies, and audit logs.
• Support application, virtualization, and database teams.
• Develop and maintain SOPs and knowledge articles.
• Mentor junior staff and contribute to planning and change discussions.
• Track capacity, performance trends, utilization, and compliance.
• Generate operational reports and coordinate vendor support and firmware guidance.
• Participate in hardware migrations and decommissioning.

Skills

Advanced SAN administration

NAS administration

Backup and recovery operations

Linux administration

Strong communication skills

Documentation skills

Incident response skills

Cloud storage familiarity

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

Cisco SAN

DELL/EMC Storage

Pure Storage

IBM Storage

Nagios

SCOM

Ansible

Job description

Jobtailor is seeking an experienced Storage Administrator to manage SAN, NAS, and cloud-based storage platforms in a high-demand environment. You will provision storage, tune performance, and maintain runbooks, while ensuring security controls and audit logs are in place.

The role requires 5–7 years of advanced SAN/NAS experience, strong documentation, and collaboration with virtualization and database teams. On-site Nashville deployment with potential after-hours shifts and DR testing.