Storage Engineer - Active TS/SCI with CI Poly

ENS Solutions, LLC; Sterling (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision coverage (Free)

401k contribution from Day 1

Paid time off + federal holidays

Disability Insurance

Life Insurance

Tuition & Certification support

Relocation assistance

Job summary

ENS Solutions, LLC is seeking a Storage Engineer to support government activities at Annapolis Junction, MD, Sterling, VA, or Colorado Springs, CO. The role focuses on designing, implementing, and optimizing storage and backup solutions across on-prem and cloud environments.

You will work with Gov Technical Leads, major vendors, and cloud providers to evaluate technologies, build a demonstration environment, and develop robust test plans. ATO readiness and security engineering are key priorities.

Qualifications

• Provide storage and backup engineering for government projects.
• Engage in requirement analysis, design, testing and implementation of storage systems.
• Collaborate with Gov Tech Leads, vendors and cloud providers on storage techs.
• Develop and maintain a test lab and storage demos.
• Create and execute test plans for storage/backup solutions.

Responsibilities

• Perform root cause analysis for major issues and propose improvements.
• Offer storage upgrade recommendations and assist system integration.
• Provide Tier 3/4 support for storage and backup platforms.
• Conduct system security engineering focused on storage and SAN.
• Install, monitor and optimize storage solutions to achieve ATO.

Skills

Storage engineering

SAN administration

VMware

Windows administration

Red Hat administration

Cloud storage

Education

High School with 12+ years experience

Associate's Degree with 10+ years experience

Bachelor's Degree with 8+ years experience

Master's Degree with 6+ years experience

Tools

NetApp

Dell EMC

Pure Storage

Cohesity

Rubrik

NetBackup

VxRail

Nutanix

VMware vSphere

Windows Server

Red Hat

AWS

Azure

Job description

Our work depends on a Storage Engineer joining our team to support Government activities in Annapolis Junction, MD, Sterling, VA, or Colorado Springs, CO.

As a Storage Engineer supporting the Government, you will be trusted to engineer solutions for storage devices and backup technologies, as well as automating data share and access management.

In this role, a typical day will include:

• Participating in requirement analysis, solution design, testing, and implementation of next generation Storage and Backup systems, both on and off premise
• Collaborating with the Gov Technical Leads, storage vendors, and cloud providers to evaluate emerging storage technologies
• Developing and maintaining the storage demonstration environment in the designated test lab
• Develop and execute test plans for storage and backup solutions
• Performing root cause analysis for major issues and recommend improvements
• Providing storage upgrade recommendations and support system integration activities
• Providing Tier 3/4 support to storage and backup platforms
• Conducting system security engineering with a Storage/SAN focus
• Installing, monitoring, and optimizing storage solutions to achieve Authorize to Operate (ATO)

• High School and 12+ years / Associate's and 10+ year /Bachelor's Degree and 8+ years/ Master's Degree and 6+ years of relevant years of experience required.
• Expertise with enterprise storage and backup platforms (e.g., NetApp, Dell/EMC, Pure Storage, Cohesity, Rubrik, NetBackup) and hyper-converged solutions (VxRail, Nutanix).
• Full lifecycle SAN administration experience including utilization analysis and capacity planning
• Experience with VMware and virtualized environments
• Proficiency in Windows and Red Hat administration
• Familiarity with cloud storage solutions (AWS, Azure, Oracle)
• Broad understanding across related technology domains such as virtualization, networking, Intel-based systems, data center migration, and disaster recovery

Essential Network Security (ENS) Solutions, LLC is a service-disabled veteran owned, highly regarded IT consulting and management firm. ENS consults for the Department of Defense (DoD) and Intelligence Community (IC) providing innovative solutions in the core competency area of Identity, Credential and Access Management (ICAM), Software Development, Cyber and Network Security, System Engineering, Program/Project Management, IT support, Solutions, and Services that yield enduring results. Our strong technical and management experts have been able to maintain a standard of excellence in their relationships while delivering innovative, scalable and collaborative infrastructure to our clients.

Why ENS?

• Free Platinum-Level Medical/Dental/Vision coverage, 100% paid for by ENS
• 401k Contribution from Day 1
• PTO + 11 Paid Federal Holidays
• Long & Short Term Disability Insurance
• Group Term Life Insurance
• Tuition, Certification & Professional Development Assistance
• Workers’ Compensation
• Relocation Assistance

Candidate AI Usage Policy

AI tools are an important part of daily work at ENS Solutions, and we are committed to their responsible and ethical use. To ensure a fair and equitable candidate evaluation based on individual skills, knowledge, and experience, candidates are not permitted to use artificial intelligence or other assistive tools during interviews, whether in person or virtual, unless explicit permission has been granted in advance.