Job Requirements
Chantilly, VA
Top Secret/SCI Polygraph Unspecified
Mid Level Career (5+ yrs experience)
$120,000 - $140,000
Job Description
Responsibilities:
Qualifications
Required:
Desired:
Clearance:
Location:
- DevOps Storage Engineers demonstrate the ability to build, maintain, and troubleshoot complex storage infrastructures to maintain a secure, performant, and available solution.
- Knowledge of Linux distributions, including user management, security hardening, and system troubleshooting
- Understanding of iSCSI, Fibre Channel, Fibre Channel over Ethernet, NFS, SMB/CIFS, NVMe/TCP, NVMe/RoCE for efficient and performant data transfer
- Experience with ext4, XFS, Btrfs - knowing when to use each based on performance needs
- Knowledge of RAID levels and disk management techniques for redundancy and performance
- Proven ability to deploy, configure, and manage storage area networks and network-attached storage solutions
- Hands-on experience with major vendors like Dell EMC, NetApp, or HPE Nimble - including firmware updates and troubleshooting
- Experience setting up synchronous/asynchronous data replication for disaster recovery
- Knowledge using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Zabbix to track performance metrics and identify bottlenecks
- Intermediate scripting experience for automating routine tasks and creating custom monitoring solutions
- Experience with Ansible, Chef, or Puppet to manage storage infrastructure as code
Qualifications
Required:
- Proven experience configuring, managing, and troubleshooting enterprise SAN, NAS, and unified storage platforms (e.g., NetApp, Dell PowerStore/PowerMax, Pure Storage), with deep knowledge of block and file protocols including Fibre Channel, iSCSI, NFS, and SMB/CIFS.
- Proficiency in automating storage provisioning, lifecycle tasks, and configuration management using tools like Terraform and Ansible, backed by scripting skills in Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
- Strong hands-on experience integrating persistent volumes with container platforms, specifically leveraging Kubernetes Container Storage Interface (CSI) drivers, storage classes, and dynamic volume provisioning.
- In-depth Linux systems administration skills (Red Hat/CentOS, Ubuntu), including multipath I/O configuration (DM-Multipath), volume managers (LVM), filesystem tuning (ext4, XFS, ZFS), and performance troubleshooting (I/O latency, IOPS, throughput).
Desired:
- Experience designing and managing S3-compatible cloud and software-defined object storage solutions (e.g., AWS S3/EBS/EFS, MinIO, Ceph) across hybrid or multi-cloud enterprise footprints.
- Hands-on experience embedding automated storage tests and provisioning workflows into CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins) and managing storage declarations via GitOps workflows (e.g., ArgoCD).
- Familiarity with telemetry and observability stacks (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry) to track storage metrics, monitor SLA thresholds, and build automated forecasting models for capacity planning.
- Industry certifications such as Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate, vendor storage credentials (e.g., NetApp NCDA, Pure Certified Architect), or an advanced cloud provider specialty (e.g., AWS Solutions Architect).
Clearance:
- Active Top Secret w/ SCI Eligibility
Location:
- On-site in Chantilly, Virginia
group id: 91085617
