Senior Storage Engineer – Top Secret Clearance Sponsorship

Edgewater Federal Solutions; Huntsville (AL); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Edgewater Federal Solutions is seeking a Principal Storage Engineer III to support mission-critical government programs. This role focuses on enterprise storage, data management, and storage infrastructure across complex environments in the Huntsville area, with sponsorship considerations for Top Secret clearance.

Qualified candidates bring 10+ years of storage experience, TS clearance or eligibility, and vendor certifications.

Qualifications

• 10+ years storage experience in enterprise environments.
• Active Top-Secret Clearance or eligible required.
• Advanced mainstream storage vendor certification preferred.
• Bachelor's degree preferred but not required.
• Experience with mainframe storage systems using FICON (Fiber Channel) highly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Support highly available enterprise storage arrays and storage networking equipment.
• Manage NAS/SMB/CIFS, NFS v3/v4 protocols.
• Handle iSCSI and Fibre Channel connections to switches/arrays.
• Understand Windows Server, AD/LDAP/DNS/NTP/Kerberos and their impact on storage access.
• Configure Windows NTFS security, ACLs, and VSS snapshots.
• Apply POSIX ACLs/mode-bits for file system permissions.
• Administer DFS for SMB high availability.
• Utilize Robocopy/Rsync for data migrations.
• Minimize risk with controlled change execution in enterprise environments.
• Understand RAID, storage tiering, deduplication, replication, snapshots.
• Know block, file, and object storage use cases.
• Familiarity with virtualization (VMware vCenter/vSphere/vSAN) and data reduction.
• Experience with Cohesity, Pure Storage, Dell EMC, NetApp, Isilon or Hitachi products is a plus.

Skills

10+ years storage experience

Active TS Clearance or eligible

Vendor storage certification

Education

Bachelor's degree preferred

Job description

Edgewater Federal Solutions is seeking a Principal Storage Engineer III to support mission-critical government programs. This role focuses on enterprise storage, data management, and storage infrastructure across complex environments in the Huntsville area, with sponsorship considerations for Top Secret clearance.

Qualified candidates bring 10+ years of storage experience, TS clearance or eligibility, and vendor certifications.