Storage Engineer - Top Secret​/SCI with Security Clearance

Sunayu, LLC is seeking a Storage Engineer to support the National Digital Exploitation and OSINT Center (NDOC). This role requires technical expertise in storage engineering, system administration, and operations. This role is responsible for optimising the configuration of the enterprise storage infrastructure to maximise availability, performance, and capacity.

This role participates in the life cycle process of purchasing, installing, maintaining, and replacing storage devices across on-premise and cloud IT environments.

This role collects and evaluates metrics to optimise storage operations.

This individual identifies risks, performs assessments, and analyses risk mitigation strategies.

Finally, this individual is responsible for developing and maintaining system documentation and procedures in accordance with customer requirements.

The Customer utilises an Agile Framework to plan and successfully complete all initiatives. This is a 100% on-site position. All work must be performed at the customer site. Primary Responsibilities Systems Engineering / Architecture / Life cycle Design

• Design and engineer scalable enterprise storage architectures supporting performance, resiliency, high availability, and mission growth requirements across on-premise and cloud environments.
• Develop logical and physical storage architectures, reference designs, and engineering road maps aligned to customer mission requirements and future capacity demands.
• Perform systems design and engineering analysis for storage modernisation initiatives, including solution trade studies, technology evaluations, and engineering recommendations.
• Engineer life cycle replacement strategies for enterprise storage infrastructure, balancing risk, obsolescence, cost, and operational continuity.
• Develop and maintain engineering artifacts including architecture diagrams, low-level designs, interface documentation, data flow mappings, and implementation plans.
• Apply systems engineering principles to storage integration, interoperability, performance optimization, and infrastructure resilience.
• Perform engineering analysis of system dependencies, failure modes, and technical risks; develop mitigation strategies to improve reliability and supportability. Advanced Engineering / Design Responsibilities
• Engineer and optimize storage solutions for multi-petabyte environments supporting virtualization, GPU/compute-intensive workloads, and mission-critical applications.
• Provide engineering support for performance modelling, capacity forecasting, and lifecycle planning using operational metrics and trend analysis.
• Contribute to disaster recovery architecture, data protection engineering, and continuity solution design for enterprise storage services.
• Experience with systems engineering life cycle methodologies, including requirements development, systems design, architecture, integration, testing, sustainment, and life cycle refresh.
• Demonstrated knowledge of storage systems architecture, life cycle engineering, and infrastructure modernization principles.
• Familiarity with model-based or traditional systems engineering disciplines, architecture frameworks, and engineering documentation practices preferred.
• Install, configure, and administer enterprise storage systems from multiple vendors to include, but not limited to, Dell EMC and Quantum
• Install, configure, and administer Rubrik server and client software.

Schedule and monitor backup policies.

Generate backup status reports as required

• Administer Cisco Brocade fiber channel switch fabrics.

Configure single initiator zone sets and monitor switch utilization and performance

• Create and secure SMB file shares
• Coordinate with server administrators to create, secure, and mount NFS exports
• Develop and implement Disaster Recovery and Continuity of Operations plans in accordance with customer requirements
• Install, configure, maintain, and administer Linux and Windows servers in support of storage operations such as Rubrik, Media, DSM and Master servers
• Build capacity management dashboards that improve visibility into enterprise storage use, health, resilience, and provide ongoing resources for planning for enterprise infrastructure life cycle replacement
• Configure Rubrik policies.

Troubleshoot and resolve backup job failures

• Coordinate with vCenter administrators to provision Storage Area Network (SAN) resources to VMWare ESX cluster data stores as required
• Configure and manage volume snapshots.

Assist customers with point-in-time file restores

• Schedule and monitor volume replication for disaster recovery
• Monitor health and availability of infrastructure applications and systems
• Work with vendors to troubleshoot and resolve hardware and software failures
• Coordinate with Change Management to deconflict and schedule hardware maintenance activities, system and firmware updates, and other configuration changes
• Execute system changes during scheduled maintenance windows
• Monitor and evaluate system performance and capacity trends
• Resolve tier 2 and tier 3…