Storage Engineer

HireClearedTalent; Bethesda (MD); On-site; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

HireClearedTalent seeks an experienced storage engineer to manage enterprise storage environments in Bethesda. A Bachelor’s degree with 8+ years (or Master’s with 6+ years) of relevant experience is required.

Preferred are Dell Storage Center/Compellent, Data Domain, and strong VMware ESX integration. You will handle SAN/NAS provisioning, LUNs, FC zoning, NFS/SMB shares, AD permissions, snapshots, replication, and storage performance tuning.

Qualifications

• Requires a Bachelor’s degree and 8+ years of relevant experience, or Masters degree with 6+ years of experience.
• Experience administering enterprise-level data storage systems (Dell Storage Center, Dell Compellent, and Data Domain preferred).
• SAN administration including provisioning of LUNs, managing fibre channel zoning, and mapping storage to servers.
• NAS administration including NFS and SMB file sharing.
• Integration with VMWare ESX Server.
• Snapshots and volume replication experience.
• Managing file and share permissions in an Active Directory environment.
• Storage monitoring and performance tuning; cloud storage management knowledge.
• Experience with Veritas Rubrik and scripting with PowerShell.
• Working knowledge of Unix/Linux operating systems and DFS.
• Ability to complete complex projects with minimal direction and support a 24/7/365 customer environment.
• Experience coordinating with senior management and customers.
• IAT Level II/III certification requirements (Security+ CE, CCNA-Security, GICSP, GSEC, SSCP or CASP+, CCNP Security, CISA, CISSP, GCED, GCIH, CCSP).

Responsibilities

• Provide enterprise storage administration across SAN/NAS environments.
• Manage LUN provisioning, FC zoning, and server mappings.
• Ensure high availability and performance of storage resources.
• Coordinate with stakeholders and support continuous 24/7 operations.
• Monitor and optimize storage systems and backups.
• Scripting and automation using PowerShell.
• Assist with cloud storage integration and DR/COOP readiness.

Skills

SAN administration

NAS administration

VMware ESX

Snapshots

Volume replication

Active Directory

Storage monitoring

Cloud storage

Veritas Rubrik

PowerShell

Unix/Linux

DFS

24/7 support

Security+ / IAT certs

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Tools

Dell Storage Center

Dell Compellent

Data Domain

VMware ESX Server

Veritas Rubrik

PowerShell

DFS

Job description

Requires a Bachelor’s degree and 8+ years of relevant experience, or Masters degree with 6+ years of experience. Additional years of relevant experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.

• Experience administering enterprise-level data storage systems (Dell Storage Center, Dell Compellent, and Data Domain preferred) with a demonstrated understanding of the following services and technologies:
• SAN administration including provisioning of LUNs, managing fibre channel zoning, and mapping storage to servers
• NAS administration including NFS and SMB file sharing
• Integration with VMWare ESX Server
• Snapshots
• Volume replication
• Managing file and share permissions in an Active Directory environment
• Storage monitoring and performance tuning
• Understanding of Cloud storage management
• Experience managing and administering Veritas Rubrik
• Experience with scripting technologies such as PowerShell
• Working knowledge of Unix or Linux based operating systems
• Working knowledge of Distributed File System (DFS)
• Ability to complete complex projects with minimal direction
• Experience working independently to support a 24/7/365 customer environment
• Experience contributing to deliverables and meeting performance metrics
• Experience coordinating with senior management and customers
• Candidate must, at a minimum, meet DoD 8140/8570.11- IAT Level II certification requirements (Security+ CE, CCNA-Security, GICSP, GSEC, or SSCP along with an appropriate computing environment (CE) certification). An IAT Level III certification would also be acceptable (CASP+, CCNP Security, CISA, CISSP, GCED, GCIH, CCSP).

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Disaster Recovery and COOP storage backup and recovery within and across the data centers and the Cloud
• Ability to analyze cloud migration approaches to support customer decision making for effective and efficient cloud migrations
• Experience managing Distributed File System (DFS) namespaces