Storage & Data Protection Engineer

VSO Inc.; United States; On-site; USD 85,000 - 92,000; Full time

Job summary

VSO Inc. is seeking an Infrastructure Engineer to support and improve enterprise storage services in a production environment. This hands-on role focuses on troubleshooting incidents, fulfilling requests, and maintaining health, performance, and documentation of storage and data protection services.

You will work with storage platforms such as NetApp, Pure, Infinidat, Nimble, and VMware vSAN, handling provisioning, DR readiness, and change execution. A government contract requires U.S.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of relevant, professional experience.
• Proficient with NetApp, Pure, Infinidat, Nimble, VMware vSAN.
• U.S. citizenship required due to government contract.

Responsibilities

• Monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve storage-related incidents impacting performance, capacity, connectivity, and availability.
• Administer and support storage platforms in scope (e.g., NetApp, Pure, Infinidat, Nimble, VMware vSAN).
• Perform routine operational tasks: storage health checks, capacity management, performance trending, and remediation of common alerts.
• Execute approved storage changes such as provisioning, resizing, reclamation, and lifecycle tasks.
• Fulfill requests for new or expanded storage, including sizing, LUN/volume creation, mapping/presentation, validation, and documentation.
• Support datastore lifecycle tasks (expand/extend, cleanup, optimization, and standardization).
• Support backup/restore operations and troubleshooting in coordination with documented procedures.
• Assist with DR readiness activities such as restore validation, failover testing steps, and runbook execution as assigned.
• Participate in planned maintenance windows for storage and data protection platforms (firmware/OS upgrades, patches, configuration changes).
• Validate post-change system health and document outcomes.
• Open and manage vendor support cases: collect logs, perform initial triage, coordinate replacement actions, and document resolution.

Skills

Communication skills

Problem-solving

Independent worker

Tools

NetApp

Pure

Infinidat

Nimble

VMware vSAN

Job description

VSO Inc. is seeking an Infrastructure Engineer to support and improve enterprise storage services in a production environment. This hands-on role focuses on troubleshooting incidents, fulfilling requests, and maintaining health, performance, and documentation of storage and data protection services.

You will work with storage platforms such as NetApp, Pure, Infinidat, Nimble, and VMware vSAN, handling provisioning, DR readiness, and change execution. A government contract requires U.S.