Senior Storage Engineer
About the role
JCS Solutions is seeking an accomplished Senior Storage Engineer to join our team supporting enterprise infrastructure operations in Fort Belvoir, VA. This role will lead the design, implementation, administration, and optimization of enterprise storage platforms, with a focus on maintaining high availability, performance, scalability, security, and operational resilience. The ideal candidate will have extensive hands-on experience with storage architecture, SAN/NAS technologies, data protection, performance optimization, lifecycle management, and supporting integrated enterprise infrastructure environments. We are looking for a candidate who can troubleshoot and resolve complex technical challenges, work effectively across infrastructure teams, and clearly communicate technical information to both customers and team members.
Responsibilities
- Leading the engineering, administration, and support of enterprise storage environments, with a primary focus on NetApp and Dell Unity platforms
- Designing and maintaining highly available, scalable storage solutions for file, block, and hybrid workloads
- Performing provisioning, configuration, upgrades, migrations, and decommissioning of storage systems
- Managing and optimizing storage environments, including aggregates, volumes, SVMs, snapshots, replication, quotas, tiering, and protocol configuration
- Administering NetApp, Dell EMC, and Hitachi storage arrays, including pools, LUNs, file systems, NAS servers, snapshots, replication, FAST VP/tiering, and host connectivity
- Supporting SAN and NAS infrastructure, including Fibre Channel, iSCSI, NFS, and SMB/CIFS protocols
- Ensuring system compliance with DISA STIG and DoD security requirements by leading critical hardening efforts
- Monitoring storage health, capacity, utilization, and performance; identifying trends and recommending remediation or expansion strategies
- Troubleshooting storage, replication, latency, pathing, and connectivity issues across hosts, hypervisors, and network fabrics
- Planning and executing data migration efforts between legacy and target storage platforms with minimal downtime
- Implementing and supporting business continuity and disaster recovery capabilities, including snapshot policies, replication, failover, and recovery testing
- Providing mentorship and guidance to junior administrators and team members to foster a deeper understanding of storage technologies
- Developing and maintaining documentation related to storage architecture, processes, and procedures
- Evaluating and recommending emerging storage solutions to continuously optimize system performance and efficiency
- Supporting projects to enhance the security, efficiency, or capability of the storage environment
- Working with vendors and third-party providers for troubleshooting and issue resolution
Requirements
- Active Top Secret/SCI clearance
- DoD 8570.11-IAT Level II certification (Security+ CE, CCNA‑Security, GSEC, or SSCP)
- Bachelor’s degree with 8–12 years of relevant experience or master’s degree with 6–10 years of relevant experience (additional technical experience may be considered in lieu of degree)
Qualifications
- Advanced knowledge of storage systems architecture, lifecycle engineering, and infrastructure modernization principles
- Demonstrated experience with NetApp, Dell EMC, Hitachi, VMware vSAN and other storage technologies
- Strong working knowledge of enterprise computing environments (physical, virtual, hybrid) and server virtualization platforms (e.g., VMware)
- Working knowledge of virtualization such as VMware vSphere and backup technologies such as NetBackup, Commvault and Veeam
- Strong knowledge of SANs, Fibre Channel fabric, and storage technologies
- Deep understanding of DISA STIGs, system hardening, and DoD security compliance frameworks
- Develop storage standards, architecture documentation, operational procedures, and support runbooks
- Strong troubleshooting skills across systems, virtualization, and storage layers
Skills
- Experience supporting large‑scale Windows and Linux