Storage Engineer: SAN/NAS, DR & Virtualization

asmexternalcareersite; United States; Remote; USD 115,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

ASM Research seeks a Storage Engineer, Mid to design and support storage solutions for enterprise apps and virtual infrastructures. You will balance hands-on administration with design tasks, implementing new arrays, tuning environments, and improving data protection workflows.

You\'ll collaborate with server, virtualization, and backup teams to ensure storage changes meet capacity, performance, and resilience requirements, while documenting architectures and runbooks for audits.

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 (for example, 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

SAN/NAS tech

NetApp/EMC

DR planning

Root cause analysis

Communication

Organizational skills

Secret clearance

US citizenship

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT/CS

Job description

ASM Research seeks a Storage Engineer, Mid to design and support storage solutions for enterprise apps and virtual infrastructures. You will balance hands-on administration with design tasks, implementing new arrays, tuning environments, and improving data protection workflows.

You\'ll collaborate with server, virtualization, and backup teams to ensure storage changes meet capacity, performance, and resilience requirements, while documenting architectures and runbooks for audits.