Senior Storage Engineer - TS/SCI/Poly On-Site

Shield Consulting Solutions, Inc.; Laurel (MD); On-site; USD 190,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Shield Consulting Solutions, Inc. is seeking a senior Storage Engineer in Laurel, MD to design, deploy, and support complex storage and backup platforms.

The role involves leading capacity planning, performance tuning, and integration with hypervisor technologies across multiple data centers. You will ensure high availability, implement security hardening, and create comprehensive technical documentation while collaborating with a cross-functional team on critical national security projects.

Qualifications

• Hands-on NetApp experience required.
• Storage tech knowledge: SAN/NAS, protocols S3, CIFS, NFS, iSCSI, FC.
• Experience with capacity planning and sizing storage/backup environments.
• Senior-level design/maintenance of large-scale cross-site systems.
• Strong HA concepts and TCP/IP fundamentals.
• Experience connecting storage arrays to hypervisor tech (Nutanix, VMware VCF, OpenStack).
• Security best practices and Federal hardening (FISMA/STIG).
• Excellent written and verbal communication; team player.

Responsibilities

• Design, architect, configure, deploy, upgrade, and support storage/backup platforms.
• Diagnose and troubleshoot storage systems and related tech.
• Adhere to standards and participate in technical reviews.
• Evaluate, deploy, manage, and integrate new technologies with other engineers.
• Provide incident support and participate in on-call rotations.
• Create and maintain diagrams, run books, and engineering docs.
• Oversee installation of storage hardware/software per SOPs.
• Monitor systems and collect capacity/performance/utilization data.
• Stay abreast of storage/backup tech for national security needs.

Skills

NetApp

SAN/NAS

Storage protocols

Capacity planning

Performance tuning

Data center migrations

High availability

Hypervisor integration

Education

Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline

Tools

NetBackup

Cohesity

Rubrik

CommVault

Job description

Shield Consulting Solutions, Inc. is seeking a senior Storage Engineer in Laurel, MD to design, deploy, and support complex storage and backup platforms.

The role involves leading capacity planning, performance tuning, and integration with hypervisor technologies across multiple data centers. You will ensure high availability, implement security hardening, and create comprehensive technical documentation while collaborating with a cross-functional team on critical national security projects.