Systems Administrator - Storage Services with Security Clearance

About SHR Consulting Group SHR Consulting Group, LLC is a small business delivering enterprise IT, cybersecurity, and program management services to the Department of Defense and federal civilian agencies. We support mission-critical infrastructure at the Pentagon and across the National Capital Region, and we invest in our people through competitive compensation, professional certification support, and long-term career growth on stable, multi-year programs.
Position Summary SHR Consulting Group is seeking Storage Services Systems Administrators to operate and maintain an approximately 25-petabyte enterprise storage area network supporting Command and Control, Continuity of Operations, and Continuity of Business data requirements for the DISA J-9 Hosting and Compute environment. This is a hands-on role across a complex, multi-fabric, multi-environment SAN spanning on-premises, alternate site, and hybrid cloud, and it covers the full lifecycle - administration, virtualization, migration, backup and recovery, and automated failover for clustered tenant applications.

Key Responsibilities
* Deliver storage administration, storage virtualization, storage architecture, data storage transport, configuration, storage management software integration, and policy-based storage management using industry best practices

* Operate and maintain a complex multi-environment, multi-fabric storage area network solution across on-premises, alternate site, and hybrid cloud environments

* Own the full O&M lifecycle of the managed SAN environment, including software upgrades, migrations to new storage hardware platforms and cloud hosting environments, data storage transport, decommissioning, and storage rationalization

* Provide migration support for relocation of on-premises storage to the future-state environment, supporting coherent migration of applications, data, software, and databases at a rate of no less than 10% of the total transition requirement per month

* Perform installation, configuration, and tuning of backup servers, clients, application agents, storage targets, and management software in the enterprise backup environment

* Monitor backup job reports and troubleshoot failed jobs daily; maintain backup service delivery consistent with existing customer service levels and the service catalog

* Perform remediation of data spillage incidents

* Use predictive growth analysis to indicate the need for additional capacity at least six months prior to shortfall

* Perform knowledge transfer and customer training for customers managing their own backups and restores

* Design, implement, and configure automated failover for clustering solutions on J-9 HAC and tenant-provided compute platforms, enabling access to data within two hours of a declared COOP activity

* Conduct System Operational Verification Tests after each implementation and subsequent change, and conduct cluster health checks on production critical clusters prior to quarterly customer failover testing

* Ensure system software, firmware, applications, and STIGs remain within one version of the latest manufacturer or Government release

* Maintain the consolidated listing of all customer equipment and points of contact connected to the enterprise storage and backup platforms

* Effectively utilize vendor warranty and maintenance support contracts for data storage and data storage transport

* Participate in disaster recovery testing and produce required monthly reporting on storage utilization, capacity, installed software, and hardware failures

Minimum Qualifications
* Hands-on enterprise storage administration experience in a multi-fabric fiber channel SAN environment at scale

* Experience with storage virtualization, block and file storage, and policy-based storage management

* Experience with enterprise backup and recovery platforms, including disk-to-disk-to-cloud solutions with off-site replication

* Experience with data replication, failover testing, clustering solutions, and backup and restore capability validation

* Experience performing storage and backup platform migrations, upgrades, and decommissioning

* Ability to perform capacity planning and predictive growth analysis for storage and backup systems

* Experience applying STIGs and maintaining firmware and software currency on storage infrastructure

* Experience in a DoD or comparable large, complex enterprise IT environment preferred

Education Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Telecommunications, or Management Information Systems; or five (5) recent years of documented experience relevant to this position.
Certification Requirements DoD 8570.01-M / DoD 8140 IAT Level II certification required prior to start (IAM Level I for designated hardware/software installation positions). Computing environment certification in storage- or server-related technologies required, aligned to the assigned position. Designated installation technician positions additionally require BICSI Installer…