The Storage Engineer, Senior provides technical leadership for enterprise storage platforms that support databases, virtual infrastructures, and other mission-critical workloads across data centers and cloud environments. This role architects scalable SAN, NAS, and object storage solutions and ensures performance, resiliency, and data protection meet organizational requirements. The engineer leads complex storage changes, migrations, and optimization efforts, coordinating closely with server, virtualization, and backup teams.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and administer large-scale SAN and NAS infrastructures, including zoning, LUN provisioning, and multipathing for high-availability workloads.
- Perform detailed capacity planning, performance analysis, and storage tiering strategies that balance cost, latency, and resiliency.
- Integrate storage platforms with virtualization, backup, and replication technologies to support disaster recovery and business continuity objectives.
- Lead complex migrations, technology refreshes, and re-architecture initiatives using detailed runbooks, validation steps, and rollback options.
- Implement and enforce storage security practices such as encryption, access controls, and data retention policies aligned to regulatory standards.
- Mentor junior storage engineers, contribute to storage standards and reference architectures, and act as a high-level escalation point for severe storage incidents.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- Typically 8+ years of experience in storage engineering or IT infrastructure roles.
- Strong expertise with SAN, NAS, and related tools (for example, NetApp, EMC, cloud storage platforms).
- Demonstrated experience in root cause analysis, corrective action planning, and disaster recovery for storage environments.
- Excellent problem-solving, analytical, communication, and organizational skills.
- Ability to obtain and maintain a Secret clearance; U.S. citizenship required.
Preferred Qualifications
- Relevant storage certifications (for example, NCDA, EMC Proven Professional).
- Experience in highly regulated federal IT environments and with hybrid or cloud-integrated storage architectures.