Platform Storage Engineer Security Clearance

Sr. Platform Storage Engineer

Location:

McLean, VA

• Serve as a Platform Storage Engineer
• Design, deploy, maintain, and secure platform storage infrastructure
• Ensure storage systems meet performance, and availability requirements
• Respond to incidents and service requests related to storage infrastructure
• Perform routine health checks, capacity planning, and performance analysis
• Execute firmware upgrades, patches, and configuration changes as directed

• BS in Computer Science, IT, or related
• 10+ years of storage engineering experience
• Knowledge of Linux distributions, including user management, security hardening, and system troubleshooting
• Understanding of the following:
  Fibre Channel, Fibre Channel over Ethernet, iSCSI, NFS, SMB/CIFS, NVMe/TCP, NVMe/RoCE
• Experience with ext4, XFS, Btrfs and knowing when to use each
• Knowledge of RAID levels and disk management techniques
• Experience deploying, configuring, and managing SAN and NAS solutions
• Hands‑on experience with major vendors like Dell EMC, Net App, or HPE Nimble
• Experience setting up synchronous/asynchronous data replication for disaster recovery
• Experience using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Zabbix to track performance metrics and identify bottlenecks
• Intermediate scripting experience for automating routine tasks
• Experience with Ansible, Chef, or Puppet to manage storage infrastructure as code
• Experience optimizing NVMe‑based systems and managing flash memory performance
• Working knowledge of AWS S3, Azure Blob Storage, Google Cloud Storage
• Familiarity with Ceph, Swift, or other object storage platforms
• Knowledge of Lustre, GPFS/Spectrum Scale
• Travel up to 20% of the time to perform on‑site installations and maintenance
• Have current IAM Level II to satisfy DOD 8570 IAT requirements

• Required:
  
  Active TS/SCI w/ CI Polygraph

• Experience:
  
  Storage engineering: 10 years (Preferred)
• Designing, deploying, maintaining storage infrastructure: 10 years (Preferred)
• Dell EMC, Net App, or HPE Nimble: 5 years (Preferred)
• Prometheus, Grafana, Zabbix: 5 years (Preferred)
• Ansible, Chef, or Puppet: 5 years (Preferred)
• License/Certification:
  Security clearance:
• CI Polygraph Security Clearance (Required)
• Top Secret (Required)
• Work Location:
  
  In person

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: $160,000-$200,000