Senior Storage & SAN Engineer (Remote, COOP)

Computer World Services Corp.; North Chicago (IL); Remote; USD 145,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

Computer World Services Corp. seeks a Senior Storage/SAN Engineer to support enterprise storage, SAN infrastructure, data protection, and COOP capabilities for the USMEPCOM ENLIST program.

The role involves configuring SAN fabrics, storage arrays, Fibre Channel switches, zoning and WWN connectivity, plus performance analysis, capacity planning, and non-disruptive migrations within a DoD environment. Security clearance required and remote Chicago-area work possible.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or relevant technical degree.
• Minimum of seven (7) years of storage engineering, SAN administration, systems engineering, or enterprise IT experience.
• Experience configuring and troubleshooting SAN fabrics, storage arrays, switches, zoning, Fabric Logins, and WWN/PWWN connectivity.

Responsibilities

• Configure, administer, monitor, and troubleshoot enterprise SAN fabrics, storage arrays, Fibre Channel switches, domains, ports, aliases, zones, and zone sets.
• Diagnose and resolve Fabric Login, zoning, name-server, pathing, inter-switch-link, and WWN/PWWN connectivity issues across storage, servers, and virtualization platforms.
• Support single-initiator zoning, multi-fabric designs, multipathing, HBAs, and high-availability configurations; configure volumes, LUNs, pools, tiers, snapshots, replication, masking, and host access.
• Integrate storage with physical and virtual servers, VMware, backup platforms, databases, and cloud services using Fibre Channel, iSCSI, NFS, SMB, or other approved protocols.
• Monitor storage availability, capacity, latency, IOPS, throughput, and health; diagnose performance bottlenecks and develop capacity forecasts and expansion or refresh recommendations.
• Participate in Outage Response Team activities, providing diagnosis, mitigation, recovery, and service validation; collect evidence for root-cause analysis and coordinate vendor escalation.
• Plan and execute storage-array, SAN-switch, firmware, and software refreshes, data migrations, and non-disruptive cutovers with implementation, validation, and rollback procedures.
• Maintain storage asset, configuration, warranty, licensing, and lifecycle records, and support inventory audits and disposition.
• Configure and test backup, restoration, replication, failover, failback, and disaster-recovery capabilities; support quarterly COOP exercises, COOP activation, and multi-year continuity testing procedures.
• Apply approved patches and configurations in accordance with DISA STIGs, and support remediation of vulnerabilities, IAVAs, CND Directives, and POA&M items.
• Maintain SAN diagrams, zoning records, configuration baselines, capacity plans, recovery procedures, and SOPs, and recommend improvements to availability, performance, and recoverability.

Skills

SAN administration

Storage engineering

Fibre Channel

Zoning

Troubleshooting

VMware integration

Disaster recovery

Capacity planning

Performance analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Dell Technologies storage

NetApp

Pure Storage

HPE

IBM

Hitachi

Brocade

Cisco MDS

VMware vSphere

Job description

Computer World Services Corp. seeks a Senior Storage/SAN Engineer to support enterprise storage, SAN infrastructure, data protection, and COOP capabilities for the USMEPCOM ENLIST program.

The role involves configuring SAN fabrics, storage arrays, Fibre Channel switches, zoning and WWN connectivity, plus performance analysis, capacity planning, and non-disruptive migrations within a DoD environment. Security clearance required and remote Chicago-area work possible.