Senior Enterprise Storage Engineer

Peraton Overview

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can’t be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we’re keeping people around the world safe and secure.

Responsibilities

The Senior Enterprise Storage Engineer provides technical oversight of hardware and software systems, with a focus on storage area network administration. Provides professional service within the parameters specified in the site's service level agreement and/or that meet or exceed the customer requirements. Ensures system security is in compliance with customer policy including patching and auditing. Implements and maintains network standards and guidelines. Monitors system utilization including data storage management, performance metrics and service levels. Ensures reliable backup and recovery of necessary data. Develops and maintains an automated environment including reporting, event notifications and actions, software updates and service packs. Reports on capacity and does proactive planning for additional storage. Allocates storage to servers, configuring fiber channel switches, and capacity planning for the SAN, in addition to OS level support related to implementing and maintaining system security and data recovery processes, providing technical support, utilizing automation tools for delivering applications, managing assets, monitoring performance, event notifications and automating desktop support. Coordinates and communicates activities, status updates, outage notifications and schedule information. Performs account maintenance. Ensures reliable backup and recovery of necessary data. Troubleshoots network communications. Maintains and documents SAN cabling plans. Installs, configures, administers, and optimizes servers (hardware and operating systems). Interfaces with users is an integral part of this role. Maintains network system documentation.

Other Responsibilities Include:

• Design, implement, and maintain enterprise storage solutions, including SAN, NAS, object, and hyperconverged platforms
• Provision and manage storage resources, including LUNs, volumes, shares, zoning, masking, and quotas, to support application and virtualization requirements
• Perform capacity planning, performance monitoring, and trend analysis to forecast growth and prevent resource constraints
• Plan and execute data replication, snapshot, and backup/recovery strategies supporting COOP and disaster recovery objectives
• Conduct firmware, OS, and software upgrades and patching in accordance with change management procedures
• Plan and perform data migrations and technology refreshes with minimal service disruption
• Troubleshoot and resolve storage incidents as a Tier 3/4 escalation point, performing root cause analysis and corrective actions
• Develop and maintain technical documentation, including architecture diagrams, configuration baselines, SOPs, and runbooks
• Manage vendor support cases, hardware maintenance, and asset lifecycle tracking
• Provide input to engineering change proposals, technical solutions, and cost estimates

This position is hybrid, with 2–3 days per week in the office expected at one of the following locations: Columbus, OH; Oklahoma City, OK; or Montgomery, AL.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• US Citizenship
• Active Secret Clearance
• Min 12 years with BS/BA, Min 10 years with MS/MA, Min 7 years with PhD
• Experience in an enterprise environment
• Working knowledge of SAN/NAS architectures, Fibre Channel and iSCSI fabrics, zoning, and NFS/SMB protocols
• Experience integrating storage with VMware vSphere or other virtualization platforms
• Strong troubleshooting, documentation, and communication skills

Target Salary Range

$135,000 - $216,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position. Salary is determined by various factors, including but not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the position, the individual’s experience, education, knowledge, skills, and competencies, as well as geographic location and business and contract considerations. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.

Benefits Statement

Peraton offers eligible employees a variety of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, health savings account, short/long term disability, EAP, parental leave, 401(k), paid time off (PTO) for vacation, and company paid holidays. A full listing of available benefits can be viewed at https://www.careers.peraton.com/benefits.

Application Statements

The application period for the job is estimated to be 30 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates. By applying to this job, you are expressing interest in the role and the Company. During the review of your application, you may be required to participate in an on-camera interview, as well as participate in a process to verify your identity. Use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools of any kind during Peraton interviews is strictly prohibited unless the candidate has obtained prior written authorization. All interview responses must be the candidate’s own.

EEO

EEO: Equal opportunity employer, including disability and protected veterans, or other characteristics protected by law.