The Storage Engineer, Mid designs and supports storage solutions that deliver reliable, high-performance data services for enterprise applications and virtual infrastructures. This role balances hands-on administration with design-oriented tasks such as implementing new arrays, tuning existing environments, and improving data protection workflows. The engineer works closely with server, virtualization, and backup teams to ensure storage changes align with capacity, performance, and resilience requirements.
Key Responsibilities
- Configure and manage SAN and NAS systems, including zoning, LUN presentation, and performance tuning for latency-sensitive workloads.
- Design and implement snapshot, replication, and backup strategies that meet recovery time and recovery point objectives.
- Conduct capacity planning and forecast storage growth, providing recommendations for expansion and tiering.
- Troubleshoot storage-related issues that surface in virtualized or application environments using logs and monitoring data.
- Document storage architectures, standards, and runbooks to support consistent operations and audits.
- Collaborate with backup and virtualization teams to align storage operations with broader infrastructure strategies.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- Typically 4–7 years of experience in storage administration or infrastructure engineering.
- Strong understanding of SAN/NAS technologies and experience with enterprise storage platforms (for example, NetApp, EMC, cloud storage).
- Experience with data protection, disaster recovery planning, and root cause analysis in storage environments.
- Strong problem-solving, communication, and organizational skills.
- Ability to obtain and maintain a Secret clearance; U.S. citizenship required.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with hybrid or cloud-integrated storage architectures.
- Intermediate-level vendor certifications or storage-focused training.