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Storage Engineer

DCI Solutions

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Top Secret
Mid Level Career (5+ yrs experience)
$160,000 - $200,000
CI Polygraph
IT - Database
McLean, VA (On-Site/Office)

Platform Storage Engineer

Location: McLean, VA

Job Description:

Serve as a Platform Storage Engineer

Design, deploy, maintain, and secure platform storage infrastructure

Ensure storage systems meet performance, and availability requirements

Respond to incidents and service requests related to storage infrastructure

Perform routine health checks, capacity planning, and performance analysis

Execute firmware upgrades, patches, and configuration changes as directed

Qualifications:

BS in Computer Science, IT, or related

5+ years of storage engineering experience

Knowledge of Linux distributions, including

User management, security hardening, and system troubleshooting
Understanding of the following:

Fibre Channel, Fibre Channel over Ethernet
iSCSI, NFS, SMB/CIFS, NVMe/TCP, NVMe/RoCE
Experience with ext4, XFS, Btrfs and knowing when to use each

Knowledge of RAID levels and disk management techniques

Experience deploying, configuring, and managing SAN and NAS solutions

Hands-on experience with major vendors like

Dell EMC, NetApp, or HPE Nimble
Experience setting up synchronous/asynchronous data replication for disaster recovery

Experience using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Zabbix

To track performance metrics and identify bottlenecks
Intermediate scripting experience for automating routine tasks

Experience with Ansible, Chef, or Puppet to manage storage infrastructure as code

Experience optimizing NVMe-based systems and managing flash memory performance

Working knowledge of AWS S3, Azure Blob Storage, Google Cloud Storage

Familiarity with Ceph, Swift, or other object storage platforms

Knowledge of Lustre, GPFS/Spectrum Scale

Travel up to 20% of the time to perform on-site installations and maintenance

Have current IAM Level II to satisfy DOD 8570 IAT requirements

Required: Active TS/SCI w/ CI Polygraph

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: $160,000-$200,000

Job Type: Full-time

Experience:

storage engineering: 5 years (Preferred)
designing, deploying, maintaining storage infrastructure: 5 years (Preferred)
Dell EMC, NetApp, or HPE Nimble : 5 years (Preferred)
Prometheus, Grafana, Zabbix : 3 years (Preferred)
Ansible, Chef, or Puppet : 3 years (Preferred)
License/Certification:


CI Polygraph Security Clearance (Preferred)
Security clearance:


Top Secret (Required)
Work Location: In person
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About Us
DCI Solutions is a Small Business based in Maryand that focuses on providing engineering and program management consulting services to numerous government agencies. Our services are tailored to the needs of our specific government clients and their missions. DCI has extensive technical domain knowledge in intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR), command and control (C2), healthcare systems, high performance computing, and cyber warfare. DCI also provides its clients with critical program acquisition and planning support to enable them to operate effectively and efficiently in an austere funding environment. Our corporate structure is flat and all DCI employees are billable to customers by design. This gives us the ability to punch far above our weight in terms of having a direct impact on our customers'​ success. Our customers prefer us because we are LEAN, RESPONSIVE, and ENGAGED.

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Job Category
IT - Database
Clearance Level
Top Secret