Senior Storage Engineer | TS/SCI | Cloud & On-Prem

Xcelerate-Solutions-5; Bethesda (MD); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Xcelerate Solutions seeks a Storage Engineer in Bethesda to design and optimize enterprise storage architectures across on-premise and cloud environments. The role focuses on performance, high availability, and capacity planning, aligning with customer requirements and lifecycle processes.

The engineer will develop architecture diagrams, reference designs, and deployment roadmaps, ensuring effective disaster recovery and data protection. A TS/SCI clearance is required for this position.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and 8+ years of relevant experience; or Master’s degree with 6+ years.
• Experience administering enterprise storage systems (Dell Storage Center, Dell Compellent, Data Domain) and familiarity with SAN/NAS
• SAS/N-enabled storage modernization, disaster recovery and data protection concepts

Responsibilities

• Design scalable enterprise storage architectures across on-premise and cloud environments.
• Develop logical and physical storage architectures, reference designs, and roadmaps.
• Perform systems design and analysis for storage modernization initiatives.
• Engineer lifecycle replacement strategies for storage infrastructure.
• Develop and maintain engineering artifacts including diagrams, low-level designs, interface docs, and data flow maps.
• Apply systems engineering to storage integration, performance optimization, and resilience.
• Analyze system dependencies, risks, and mitigation strategies to improve reliability.
• Provide storage solutions for multi-petabyte environments with virtualization workloads.
• Support capacity forecasting and lifecycle planning using operational metrics.

Skills

Storage engineering

System administration

Operations

Performance optimization

Capacity planning

Risk assessment

Documentation

Agile methodologies

Education

Bachelor’s degree + 8+ years experience

Master’s degree + 6+ years experience

Tools

Dell EMC

Quantum

Rubrik

Cisco Brocade

VMware ESX

PowerShell

Linux

Windows Server

NetApp

Job description

Xcelerate Solutions seeks a Storage Engineer in Bethesda to design and optimize enterprise storage architectures across on-premise and cloud environments. The role focuses on performance, high availability, and capacity planning, aligning with customer requirements and lifecycle processes.

The engineer will develop architecture diagrams, reference designs, and deployment roadmaps, ensuring effective disaster recovery and data protection. A TS/SCI clearance is required for this position.