Senior Storage Engineer with Security Clearance

SarelaTech is seeking an experienced Senior Storage Engineer to design, implement, administer, and optimize enterprise storage platforms in Fort Belvoir, VA. This role is responsible for ensuring storage availability, performance, scalability, security, and operational resilience across production and non-production systems. The ideal candidate brings deep hands-on expertise in storage architecture, SAN/NAS administration, data protection, performance tuning, lifecycle management, and cross-functional infrastructure support. Candidates must demonstrate a high degree of problem-solving ability in a complex environment and be able to communicate effectively, both to the customer and to team members.

Clearance: Current Top Secret/SCI clearance at time of consideration.

Key Responsibilities

• We are seeking a highly skilled Storage Engineer with demonstrated experience in designing, deploying, and managing enterprise storage environments. Candidate will be responsible for:
• Lead engineering, administration, and support of enterprise storage environments with primary focus on NetApp and Dell Unity platforms.
• Design and maintain highly available, scalable storage solutions for file, block, and hybrid workloads.
• Perform provisioning, configuration, upgrades, migrations, and decommissioning of storage systems.
• Manage and optimize storage environments, including aggregates, volumes, SVMs, snapshots, replication, quotas, tiering, and protocol configuration.
• Administer NetApp, Dell EMC, Hitachi storage arrays, including pools, LUNs, file systems, NAS servers, snapshots, replication, FAST VP/tiering, and host connectivity.
• Support SAN and NAS infrastructure, including Fibre Channel, iSCSI, NFS, and SMB/CIFS protocols.
• Ensure system compliance with DISA STIG and DoD security requirements by leading critical hardening efforts.
• Monitor storage health, capacity, utilization, and performance; identify trends and recommend remediation or expansion strategies.
• Troubleshoot storage, replication, latency, pathing, and connectivity issues across hosts, hypervisors, and network fabrics.
• Plan and execute data migration efforts between legacy and target storage platforms with minimal downtime.
• Implement and support business continuity and disaster recovery capabilities, including snapshot policies, replication, failover, and recovery testing.
• Provide mentorship and guidance to junior administrators and team members to foster a deeper understanding of storage technologies.
• Develop and maintain documentation related to storage architecture, processes, and procedures.
• Evaluate and recommend emerging storage solutions to continuously optimize system performance and efficiency.
• Support projects to enhance the security, efficiency, or capability of the storage environment.
• Work with vendors and third-party providers for troubleshooting and issue resolution.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with 8 - 12 years of prior relevant experience or master's degree with 6 - 10 years of prior relevant experience. Additional technical experience may be considered in lieu of degree.
• Current Top Secret/SCI clearance at time of consideration.
• Candidate must, at a minimum, meet DoD 8570.11- IAT Level II certification requirements (currently Security+ CE, CCNA-Security, GSEC, or SSCP) at time of consideration.
• Advanced knowledge of storage systems architecture, lifecycle engineering, and infrastructure modernization principles.
• Demonstrated experience with NetApp, Dell EMC, Hitachi, VMware vSAN and other storage technologies.
• Strong working knowledge of enterprise computing environments (physical, virtual, hybrid) and server virtualization platforms (e.g., VMware).
• Working knowledge of virtualization such as VMware vSphere and backup technologies such as NetBackup, Commvault and Veeam.
• Strong knowledge of SANs, Fibre Channel fabric, and storage technologies.
• Deep understanding of DISA STIGs, system hardening, and DoD security compliance frameworks.
• Develop storage standards, architecture documentation, operational procedures, and support runbooks.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across systems, virtualization, and storage layers.

Desired Qualifications

• Experience supporting large-scale Windows and Linux server environments.
• ITIL 5 Foundation Certification
• Experience with storage migrations using native and third-party tools.
• Knowledge of backup platforms such as Commvault, Veeam, NetBackup, or similar.
• Familiarity with automation tools such as Ansible or PowerCLI for automation tasks.
• Experience in regulated, highly available, or mission-critical environments.
• Prior work within the Department of War and familiarity with its IT environments.

Compensation: $120,000.00 - $125,000.00 per year Sarela Technology Solutions, LLC is an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment including the decision to hire, promote, discipline, or discharge, will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. We do not discriminate on any basis or status protected under federal, state, or local law