Platform Storage Engineer – McLean, VA

Platform Storage Engineer – 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

Qualifications:

BS in Computer Science, IT, or related

5+ 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 with CI Polygraph Clearance Job Type: Full-time