Resident Storage Engineer

Position Overview

Metro Sys is seeking an experienced Resident Storage Engineer to provide onsite operational and engineering support for a large-scale enterprise storage environment during a strategic migration from Net App to Pure Storage Flash Array (Block and File).

This role serves as the primary technical resource supporting the client's transition, helping maintain operational stability while providing day-to-day administration, performance monitoring, optimization, and knowledge transfer. The ideal candidate has strong enterprise storage experience, excellent troubleshooting skills, and enjoys working closely with customer engineering teams in a highly secure environment.

• Serve as the onsite technical resource supporting the migration from Net App to Pure Storage Flash Array
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• Assist with daily administration and operational support of the storage environment.
• Monitor storage health, availability, utilization, and capacity, proactively identifying potential issues.
• Analyze storage performance and recommend optimization opportunities.
• Support storage provisioning, volume management, snapshots, replication, and capacity planning.
• Assist with upgrades, firmware updates, patches, and lifecycle management activities.
• Troubleshoot storage hardware, software, and performance issues while coordinating with vendor support as needed.
• Participate in preventive maintenance activities and operational health reviews.
• Support incident, problem, and change management processes, including ticket management and documentation.
• Assist with implementing recommendations from availability, capacity, and performance assessments.
• Conduct storage configuration reviews and validate adherence to operational best practices.
• Evaluate new Pure Storage features and functionality and assist with implementation planning.
• Develop and maintain operational documentation and standard operating procedures.

• Support customer staff throughout the transition to the new storage platform.
• Provide technical guidance on day-to-day operations within the Pure Storage environment.
• Recommend best practices for provisioning, storage management, and operational processes.
• Assist customer teams with configuration reviews and optimization efforts.
• Deliver informal knowledge transfer and mentoring to customer administrators.
• Assess customer operational readiness and recommend additional training where appropriate.
• Partner with infrastructure and operations teams to ensure a successful production environment.

• 5+ years of enterprise storage engineering or storage administration experience.
• Experience administering enterprise storage platforms such as:
  • Pure Storage Flash Array
  • Net App
  • Dell EMC
  • HPE
• Strong understanding of:
  • Block and file storage
  • SAN and NAS technologies
  • Fibre Channel
  • Storage networking
  • Capacity planning and performance tuning
• Experience performing storage migrations or technology refresh projects.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across enterprise storage environments.
• Experience working directly with customer operations teams.
• Excellent communication and documentation skills.
• Active TS/SCI Security Clearance required.
• Ability to work full-time onsite within a secure (Dark Site) environment.

• Pure Storage Flash Array administration experience.
• Pure Storage certifications.
• Experience migrating from Net App to Pure Storage.
• Familiarity with VMware, Hyper-V, or other virtualization platforms.
• Experience supporting mission-critical government or defense environments.
• ITIL or enterprise operational support experience.