Data Storage Engineer

Job Description

Position Summary
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Base-2 Solutions is seeking a Data Storage Engineer to support the National Digital Exploitation \& OSINT Center (NDOC) at the Intelligence Community Campus in Bethesda, Maryland. The position provides technical expertise in storage engineering, systems administration, and operations across on-premises and cloud environments. The engineer will optimize enterprise storage infrastructure for availability, performance, capacity, resilience, and mission growth while supporting storage lifecycle management, risk assessment, documentation, and Agile delivery.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities
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* Design and engineer scalable enterprise storage architectures supporting performance, resiliency, high availability, and mission growth across on-premises and cloud environments.
* Develop logical and physical storage architectures, reference designs, and engineering roadmaps aligned with mission requirements and future capacity demands.
* Perform systems design and engineering analysis for storage modernization initiatives, including solution trade studies, technology evaluations, and engineering recommendations.
* Engineer lifecycle replacement strategies for enterprise storage infrastructure while balancing risk, obsolescence, cost, and operational continuity.
* Develop and maintain architecture diagrams, low-level designs, interface documentation, data flow mappings, implementation plans, and other engineering artifacts.
* Apply systems engineering principles to storage integration, interoperability, performance optimization, and infrastructure resilience.
* Analyze system dependencies, failure modes, and technical risks, and develop mitigation strategies to improve reliability and supportability.
* Engineer and optimize storage solutions for multi-petabyte environments supporting virtualization, GPU- and compute-intensive workloads, and mission-critical applications.
* Provide engineering support for performance modeling, capacity forecasting, and lifecycle planning using operational metrics and trend analysis.
* Contribute to disaster recovery architecture, data protection engineering, and continuity solution design for enterprise storage services.
* Install, configure, and administer enterprise storage systems from multiple vendors, including Dell EMC and Quantum.
* Install, configure, and administer Rubrik server and client software; schedule and monitor backup policies; and generate backup status reports.
* Administer Cisco Brocade Fibre Channel switch fabrics, configure single-initiator zone sets, and monitor switch utilization and performance.
* Create and secure SMB file shares.
* Coordinate with server administrators to create, secure, and mount NFS exports.
* Develop and implement disaster recovery and Continuity of Operations plans in accordance with customer requirements.
* Install, configure, maintain, and administer Linux and Windows servers supporting storage operations, including Rubrik, Media, DSM, and Master servers.
* Build capacity-management dashboards that improve visibility into enterprise storage use, health, resilience, and resources needed for infrastructure lifecycle replacement planning.
* Configure Rubrik policies and troubleshoot and resolve backup job failures.
* Coordinate with vCenter administrators to provision Storage Area Network (SAN) resources to VMware ESX cluster datastores as required.
* Configure and manage volume snapshots and assist customers with point-in-time file restores.
* Schedule and monitor volume replication for disaster recovery.
* Monitor the health and availability of infrastructure applications and systems.
* Work with vendors to troubleshoot and resolve hardware and software failures.
* Coordinate with Change Management to deconflict and schedule hardware maintenance, system and firmware updates, and other configuration changes.
* Execute system changes during scheduled maintenance windows.
* Monitor and evaluate system performance and capacity trends.
* Resolve Tier 2 and Tier 3 service requests.
* Identify opportunities to automate operations and develop automated solutions using Dell and NetApp system APIs.
* Pursue continuous improvement to support effective and efficient operations.
* Work with cloud storage solutions as needed for cloud applications.
* Work independently with minimal supervision.
* Mentor junior team members.

Required Qualifications
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* Relevant experience meeting an applicable education and experience pathway listed in the equivalency section.
* Extensive experience managing and administering Veritas Rubrik.
* Experience with scripting technologies such as PowerShell.
* Working knowledge of Unix or Linux-based operating systems.
* Working knowledge of Distributed File System (DFS).
* Excellent communication skills.
* Ability to mentor junior team members.
* Ability to complete complex projects with minimal direction.
* Experience working independently to support a 24/7/365 customer environment.
* Experience contributing to deliverables and meeting performance metrics.
* Experience coordinating with senior management and customers.
* Extensive experience administering enterprise-level data storage systems.
* SAN administration, including provisioning LUNs, managing Fibre Channel zoning, and mapping storage to servers.
* NAS administration, including NFS and SMB file sharing.
* Integration with VMware ESX Server.
* Knowledge of data migration strategies.
* Knowledge of snapshots.
* Knowledge of volume replication.
* Experience managing file and share permissions in an Active Directory environment.
* Knowledge of storage monitoring and performance tuning.
* Understanding of cloud storage management.
* U.S. citizenship.

Preferred Qualifications
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* Experience with Dell Storage Center, Dell Compellent, and Data Domain.
* Experience with disaster recovery and COOP storage backup and recovery within and across data centers and the cloud.
* Ability to analyze cloud migration approaches to support customer decision-making for effective and efficient cloud migrations.
* Experience managing Distributed File System (DFS) namespaces.
* Familiarity with model-based or traditional systems engineering disciplines, architecture frameworks, and engineering documentation practices.

Required Education and Experience Equivalency
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* Bachelor's degree with 8 years of relevant experience.
* Master's degree with 6 years of relevant experience.
* Associate's degree with 12 years of related experience.
* High School Diploma with 14 years of related experience.

Required Certifications
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* DoD 8570.11 IAT Level II certification requirements, currently Security CE, CCNA-Security, GSEC, or SSCP, along with an appropriate computing environment (CE) certification.

Required Security Clearance
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* Active Top Secret/SCI