Storage Engineer: SAN/NAS Architect & DR Designer

ASM Research, An Accenture Federal Services Company; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 78,000 - 129,000; Full time

Job summary

ASM Research, An Accenture Federal Services Company in the Boston area is seeking a Storage Engineer, Mid to design and operate storage solutions for enterprise applications and virtual infrastructures.

You will balance hands-on administration with design tasks such as deploying new arrays, tuning environments, and improving data protection workflows, collaborating with server, virtualization, and backup teams to meet capacity, performance and resilience goals.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Typically 4–7 years of experience in storage administration or infrastructure engineering.
• Strong understanding of SAN/NAS technologies and enterprise storage platforms (NetApp, EMC, cloud storage).
• Experience with data protection, disaster recovery planning, and root cause analysis in storage environments.
• Strong problem-solving, communication, and organizational skills.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Secret clearance; U.S. citizenship required.

Responsibilities

• Configure and manage SAN and NAS systems, including zoning, LUN presentation, and performance tuning for latency-sensitive workloads.
• Design and implement snapshot, replication, and backup strategies that meet recovery time and recovery point objectives.
• Conduct capacity planning and forecast storage growth, providing recommendations for expansion and tiering.
• Troubleshoot storage-related issues that surface in virtualized or application environments using logs and monitoring data.
• Document storage architectures, standards, and runbooks to support consistent operations and audits.
• Collaborate with backup and virtualization teams to align storage operations with broader infrastructure strategies.

Skills

Problem-solving

Communication

Organization

Education

Bachelor’s degree in IT/CS or related field

Tools

NetApp storage

EMC storage

Cloud storage

Job description

ASM Research, An Accenture Federal Services Company in the Boston area is seeking a Storage Engineer, Mid to design and operate storage solutions for enterprise applications and virtual infrastructures.

You will balance hands-on administration with design tasks such as deploying new arrays, tuning environments, and improving data protection workflows, collaborating with server, virtualization, and backup teams to meet capacity, performance and resilience goals.