Senior Storage / SAN Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Configure, manage, monitor, and troubleshoot enterprise SAN fabrics, storage arrays, Fibre Channel switches, domains, ports, aliases, zones, and zone sets.

• Identify and resolve issues related to Fabric Login, zoning, name-server, pathing, inter-switch-link, and WWN/PWWN connectivity.

• Provide support for single-initiator zoning, multi-fabric designs, multipathing, HBAs, high-availability setups, volumes, LUNs, pools, tiers, snapshots, replication, masking, and host access.

• Integrate storage solutions with both physical and virtual servers, VMware, backup platforms, databases, and cloud services utilizing Fibre Channel, iSCSI, NFS, SMB, or any other approved protocols.

• Oversee storage availability, capacity, latency, IOPS, throughput, and health; diagnose performance bottlenecks and create capacity forecasts along with recommendations for expansion or refresh.

• Engage in Outage Response Team activities, offering diagnosis, mitigation, recovery, service validation, root-cause analysis, and coordination of vendor escalations.

• Plan and carry out storage-array, SAN-switch, firmware, and software updates, as well as data migrations and non-disruptive cutovers, including implementation, validation, and rollback procedures.

• Maintain records for storage assets, configurations, warranties, licenses, and lifecycle; assist with inventory audits and disposition processes.

• Configure and test backup, restoration, replication, failover, failback, and disaster-recovery capabilities while supporting quarterly COOP exercises, COOP activation, and continuity testing.

• Apply approved patches and configurations per DISA STIGs; assist in remediating vulnerabilities, IAVAs, CND Directives, and POA&M items.

• Keep SAN diagrams, zoning documentation, configuration baselines, capacity plans, recovery procedures, and SOPs updated; suggest enhancements for availability, performance, and recoverability.

⛳️ Requirements

• A Bachelor’s degree or a relevant technical degree is required.

• At least seven (7) years of pertinent experience in storage engineering, SAN administration, systems engineering, data-center infrastructure, or enterprise IT.

• Proven experience in configuring and troubleshooting SAN fabrics, storage arrays, switches, zoning, Fabric Logins, and WWN/PWWN connectivity.

• An active Secret clearance or higher is mandatory.

• Preferred experience includes supporting enterprise storage or SAN infrastructure in a federal or DoD environment.

• Previous experience with Dell Technologies, NetApp, Pure Storage, HPE, IBM, Hitachi, or similar storage platforms is preferred.

• Familiarity with Brocade, Cisco MDS, or similar Fibre Channel switching technologies is preferred.

• Experience integrating storage with VMware vSphere, ESXi, vCenter, vSAN, Microsoft, Linux, database, backup, and cloud platforms is preferred.

• Experience supporting COOP or disaster-recovery exercises involving physically separated data centers is preferred.

• Experience in planning storage refreshes, data migrations, array replacements, and SAN cutovers is preferred.

• Familiarity with applying DISA STIGs and supporting DoD RMF, ATO, IAVA, CND Directive, and POA&M requirements is preferred.

• Storage or infrastructure certifications such as CompTIA Server+, SNIA certification, ITIL Foundation, or equivalent credentials are preferred.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package.

• Opportunities for professional growth and development.

• Supportive work environment that values teamwork and collaboration.

• Access to cutting-edge technology and resources.