Senior System Engineer 3 - Storage

Salary Range: 120000 to 140000 (Currency: USD) (Pay period: per-year-salary)

Job Description

Job Summary 

We are seeking an experienced Senior Storage Engineer III to design, deploy, operate, and support enterprise-grade storage infrastructure in complex, mission-critical environments. This role requires deep expertise across SAN, NAS, and related technologies, with a focus on high availability, security, performance, and operational excellence. The position involves serving as a subject matter expert for storage environments supporting both bare-metal and virtualized workloads.

Responsibilities 

Design, implement, deploy, test, certify, patch, and provide ongoing support for highly available enterprise storage infrastructure, including SAN, NAS/NFS/SMB, Fibre Channel, iSCSI, tape, local disk, arrays, and related components, while addressing interoperability, performance, and feature dependencies.

Serve as the storage subject matter expert; evaluate, improve, and maintain security, backup, redundancy, and availability strategies across the storage infrastructure, including verification of replication, failover copies, and multi-factor authentication integration.

Basic Windows Server storage-related experience related NTFS security, ACLs, VSS snapshots, DFS, and POSIX.

Perform file-based data migrations using tools such as Robocopy and Rsync, following methodical change processes to minimize risk and downtime.

Implement and maintain core storage technologies, including RAID, tiering/HSM, caching, compression, deduplication, replication, snapshots, multipathing, thin provisioning, and support for block, file, and object storage use cases.

Create and maintain storage configurations for bare-metal and virtual machines including working experience with vSphere

Monitor systems to identify and resolve hardware failures, performance bottlenecks, and capacity issues; configure proactive alerts and recovery processes.

Install, configure, and maintain management tools, SAN infrastructure, plugins, firmware, and patches.

Develop and maintain custom scripts (including automated provisioning and Infrastructure as a Service workflows) to improve operational efficiency.

Provide final-level support, liaise with vendors and other IT teams for cross-team resolution, and collaborate with developers on application performance.

Maintain comprehensive, regularly updated technical documentation covering inventory, configurations, patch levels, hostnames, IP addresses, hardware details, access controls, certificates, and service accounts.

Integrate storage solutions with Windows and Linux environments.

Deliver real-time reporting on provisioned/utilized capacity, performance metrics, and trends.

Transfer knowledge to team members through training and documentation following industry best practices.

Participate in the design of information and operational support systems.

Education and Background

Bachelor's Degree Preferred.

Required Skills

10+ years of experience with enterprise storage systems in large-scale, mission-critical IT environments. 
Active Top Secret clearance with SCI Eligibility; must be capable of obtaining and maintaining CI-Poly. 

Preferred Skills

• Certifications from top tier storage vendors such as DellEMC, Hitachi, EverPure, Cohesity, and others.
• Advanced mainstream storage vendor certification(s). 
• Bachelor’s degree. 
• Experience with additional platforms or technologies such as Pure Storage, NetApp, Cohesity, object storage (S3), or related tools is beneficial.
• Strong hands-on experience with enterprise storage arrays, SAN/NAS, Fibre Channel, iSCSI, and related protocols. 
• Functional knowledge of Windows Server, Active Directory integration for storage access, NTFS/POSIX permissions, and related technologies. 
• Understanding of RAID, replication, snapshots, multipathing, virtualization storage (VMware), and data reduction techniques. 
• Ability to follow rigorous change management processes in production environments.

Working Conditions

• Office and datacenter environment. 
• Ability to sit and stand for extended periods. 
• Occasionally lift 50+ lbs (team lifts).

• Happy - Be Infectious. Happiness multiplies and creates a positive and connected environment where motivation and satisfaction have an outsized effect on everything we do.
• Helpful - Be Supportive. Being helpful is the foundation of teamwork, resulting in a supportive atmosphere where collaboration flourishes, and collective success is celebrated.
• Honest - Be Trustworthy. Honesty serves as our compass, ensuring transparent communication and ethical conduct, essential to who we are and the complex domains we support.
• Humble - Be Grounded. Success is not achieved alone, humility ensures a culture of mutual respect, encouraging open communication, and a willingness to learn from one another and take on any task.
• Hungry - Be Eager. Our hunger for excellence drives an insatiable appetite for innovation and continuous improvement, propelling us forward in the face of new and unprecedented challenges.
• Hustle - Be Driven. Hustle is reflected in our relentless work ethic, where we are each committed to going above and beyond to advance the mission and achieve success.