Data Storage Engineer

Base-2 Solutions is seeking a Data Storage Engineer to support the National Digital Exploitation & OSINT Center (NDOC) at the Intelligence Community Campus in Bethesda, Maryland. The role provides storage engineering, systems administration, architecture, lifecycle planning, operations, and optimization across on-premises and cloud environments. The engineer will support enterprise storage availability, performance, capacity, resilience, disaster recovery, documentation, and continuous improvement initiatives.

• Design and engineer scalable enterprise storage architectures supporting performance, resiliency, high availability, and mission growth requirements across on-premises and cloud environments.
• Develop logical and physical storage architectures, reference designs, and engineering roadmaps aligned with mission requirements and future capacity demands.
• Perform systems design and engineering analysis for storage modernization initiatives, including solution trade studies, technology evaluations, and engineering recommendations.
• Engineer lifecycle replacement strategies for enterprise storage infrastructure while 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.
• Analyze system dependencies, failure modes, and technical risks, and develop mitigation strategies to improve reliability and supportability.
• Engineer and optimize storage solutions for multi-petabyte environments supporting virtualization, GPU- and compute-intensive workloads, and mission-critical applications.
• Provide engineering support for performance modeling, 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.
• Install, configure, and administer enterprise storage systems from multiple vendors, including Dell EMC and Quantum.
• Install, configure, and administer Rubrik server and client software; schedule and monitor backup policies; and generate backup status reports.
• Administer Cisco Brocade Fibre 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 supporting storage operations, including Rubrik, Media, DSM, and Master servers.
• Build capacity management dashboards that improve visibility into enterprise storage use, health, and resilience and support infrastructure lifecycle replacement planning.
• Configure Rubrik policies and troubleshoot and resolve backup job failures.
• Coordinate with vCenter administrators to provision Storage Area Network resources to VMware ESX cluster data stores.
• Configure and manage volume snapshots and assist customers with point-in-time file restores.
• Schedule and monitor volume replication for disaster recovery.
• Monitor the 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.
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