Remote Storage Engineer SME

Storage Engineer SME

Location: Remote; Washington, D.C. preferred

Role Overview

This role entails providing senior technical leadership for enterprise storage services. The position involves architecting, implementing, and sustaining highly available storage platforms that support mission-critical workloads across primary, alternate, and regional environments. The engineer will drive performance optimization, capacity planning, and resilient backup and recovery strategies to meet recovery objectives and operational service levels. This position ensures storage operations align with organizational compliance requirements and coordinates with various infrastructure, network, and security teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain enterprise SAN/NAS and storage virtualization solutions for mission-critical systems.
• Develop storage strategies, standards, and policies aligned with organizational and federal compliance requirements.
• Lead complex storage projects, including migrations, upgrades, and integration with cloud and on-premises environments.
• Ensure storage platforms are engineered for high availability, data integrity, and scalability.
• Administer and optimize large-scale enterprise storage environments, including proactive monitoring and health management.
• Perform capacity planning and forecasting to maintain service continuity.
• Troubleshoot and resolve advanced storage incidents, including latency, throughput, and replication issues.
• Architect and maintain enterprise backup and recovery strategies to protect mission-critical data.
• Implement and validate disaster recovery and business continuity storage controls.
• Lead storage workstreams for migrations, technology refreshes, and modernization efforts.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, network, security, and virtualization teams to integrate storage services.
• Mentor junior engineers and serve as the storage SME for incident response and strategic planning.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant technical field.
• 12+ years of experience in enterprise storage architecture, design, and administration.
• Expertise with SAN/NAS technologies, storage virtualization, and enterprise backup/recovery solutions.
• Experience leading complex storage migrations, upgrades, and integration with cloud and on-premises environments.
• Advanced expertise in storage performance tuning, capacity planning, risk assessment, and disaster recovery strategies.

PLEASE NOTE : Candidates must be able to obtain and/or maintain a Public Trust clearance as a condition and continuation of employment.

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