Data Storage Engineer

Job Description

Position Summary

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 role provides technical expertise in storage engineering, systems administration, and operations across on-premises and cloud environments. Responsibilities include optimizing enterprise storage infrastructure for availability, performance, and capacity; supporting the lifecycle of storage devices; evaluating operational metrics; identifying and mitigating risks; and maintaining system documentation and procedures in accordance with customer requirements.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• 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, engineering roadmaps, architecture diagrams, low-level designs, interface documentation, data flow mappings, and implementation plans.
• 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.
• Apply systems engineering principles to storage integration, interoperability, performance optimization, infrastructure resilience, and lifecycle engineering.
• 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 as required.
• Administer Cisco Brocade Fibre Channel switch fabrics, configure single-initiator zone sets, and monitor switch utilization and performance.
• Create and secure SMB file shares and 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, and resilience and support infrastructure lifecycle replacement planning.
• Configure Rubrik policies and troubleshoot and resolve backup job failures.
• Coordinate with vCenter administrators to provision Storage Area Network 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, availability, performance, and capacity trends 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.
• Resolve Tier 2 and Tier 3 service requests.
• Identify opportunities to automate operations and develop automated solutions using Dell and NetApp system APIs.
• Work with cloud storage solutions as needed for cloud applications.
• Work independently with minimal supervision and mentor junior team members.

Required Qualifications

• 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.
• US Citizenship is required.
• Extensive experience administering enterprise-level data storage systems, including demonstrated understanding of SAN administration, NAS administration, VMware ESX Server integration, data migration strategies, snapshots, volume replication, Active Directory file and share permissions, storage monitoring and performance tuning, and cloud storage management.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Dell Storage Center, Dell Compellent, and Data Domain.
• Familiarity with model-based or traditional systems engineering disciplines, architecture frameworks, and engineering documentation practices.
• 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.

Required Education and Experience Equivalency

• 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

• DoD 8570.11- IAT Level II certification requirements.
• Security+ CE, along with an appropriate computing environment (CE) certification.
• CCNA-Security, along with an appropriate computing environment (CE) certification.
• GSEC, along with an appropriate computing environment (CE) certification.
• SSCP, along with an appropriate computing environment (CE) certification.

Required Security Clearance

• Active Top Secret/SCI

Pay & Benefit Highlights

Compensation

• Competitive fixed salary or hourly pay (based on experience, skills, location, and internal equity).
• Employee referral bonuses up to $10,000 per hired referral.
• Additional bonus opportunities for exceptional performance and contributions to business development and company growth (role-dependent).

Health

• 100% company-paid medical premiums for employees and eligible dependents.
• Choose from multiple plan options with CareFirst, Kaiser, and UnitedHealthcare, including PPO, POS, HMO, and HSA-compatible plans.
• 100% company-paid dental premiums for employees and eligible dependents.
• 100% company-paid vision premiums for employees and eligible dependents.

Income Protection

• 100% company-paid premiums for short-term disability.
• 100% company-paid premiums for long-term disability.
• 100% company-paid premiums for accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D).
• 100% company-paid premiums for life insurance up to $200,000.

Retirement

• 401(k) with immediate vesting: 4% company match plus a 4% non-elective company contribution (8% total).
• 401(k) pre-tax and Roth options.

Leave

• Up to 20 days of flexible paid time off (PTO).
• 11 paid floating holidays.

Work-Life Balance

• Flexible work schedules, including flex time and compressed work periods (contract and project-dependent).

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