Senior Storage Administrator

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Configure and oversee enterprise Storage Area Network (SAN) arrays along with related storage assets.

• Set up and manage Fibre Channel switches, including zoning, connectivity, and backups of switch configurations.

• Manage and configure Network Attached Storage (NAS), disk, tape, virtual tape, and other related storage devices.

• Provision, expand, migrate, mirror, and decommission storage following approved procedures and change controls.

• Provide storage connectivity support for IBM mainframe, VMware, Windows, and Linux environments.

• Monitor the health, capacity, utilization, performance, alerts, and availability of storage; identify trends and recommend corrective measures.

• Administer and troubleshoot enterprise backup, recovery, replication, journaling, and disaster recovery functionalities.

• Validate backup operations, investigate failures, perform restores as necessary, and maintain recovery documentation.

• Assist with data center technology refreshes, storage migrations, hardware replacements, and maintenance tasks.

• Collaborate with vendors and government technical staff to diagnose hardware, firmware, connectivity, and performance challenges.

• Implement security, encryption, certificate, configuration, and STIG-related requirements within the storage infrastructure.

• Aid in vulnerability remediation, audit requests, compliance evidence collection, and security documentation for storage systems.

• Develop and maintain technical procedures, storage diagrams, configuration records, bills of materials, solution documents, and standard operating procedures.

• Generate capacity-planning reports, incident-management ticket reports, storage project summaries, and other customer or contract deliverables.

• Manage incidents, service requests, problems, and changes through approved IT service management and change control processes.

• Participate in planned maintenance windows, scheduled upgrades, testing, validation, and on-call support as required by mission needs.

• Work together with infrastructure teams to reduce service interruptions and ensure system availability.

• Perform additional duties as assigned in support of the DCSA BIES mission.

⛳️ Requirements

• Active DoD Top Secret security clearance.

• CompTIA Security+ or an equivalent certification.

• A minimum of 7 years of proven experience in managing enterprise storage or SAN environments.

• Hands-on experience with SAN arrays, Fibre Channel switching, zoning, LUN or volume provisioning, and storage connectivity.

• Experience in supporting backup, restore, replication, mirroring, or disaster recovery operations.

• Strong troubleshooting skills for storage, virtualization, networking, hardware, and performance issues in an enterprise setting.

• Solid understanding of configuration management, change control, incident management, and operational validation.

• Preferred: Experience with NetApp, VMware, Cisco UCS, Fibre Channel fabrics, enterprise tape or virtual tape libraries, and enterprise backup platforms.

• Preferred: Experience with IBM mainframe-attached storage, DASD, FICON, or z/OS storage environments.

• Preferred: Familiarity with DISA STIGs, RMF, NIST security controls, vulnerability management processes, and security audit artifacts.

🏝️ Benefits

• Covers 100% of employee benefit premiums, including Medical (PPO or HDHP Option), Vision, and Dental.

• Matching 401K.

• Short- and Long-Term Disability.

• Pet Insurance.

• Professional Development/Education Reimbursement.

• Parking and Transit Benefits for NY, NJ, ATL, and DC Metro areas.