Job Title: Storage Engineer Architect
Location: Remote
Duration: 6 + Months Contract
s with Active public Trust are encouraged to apply for this position.
Experience:
- 12+ years of experience in engineering and architecting enterprise IT storage systems.
- Proven experience managing multi-discipline server and system operations teams.
- Demonstrated experience translating functional requirements into enterprise technical solutions and leading integration/scalability efforts.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to collaborate effectively across cross-functional teams.
- Hands-on experience with enterprise storage platforms and large-scale storage 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.
- Experience supporting storage compliance, audit readiness, and documentation in federal IT environments.
- Advanced expertise in storage performance tuning, capacity planning, risk assessment, and disaster recovery strategies.
- Must have experience working with Clustered Data ONTAP software.
Technical Skills:
- Enterprise infrastructure design and architecture
- Multi-vendor server operating systems
- Virtualization and cloud integration architecture
- System integration and scalability architecture
- Security architecture for enterprise platforms
- Technology evaluation, POC/pilot execution, and solution validation
- Cross-functional technical leadership and stakeholder communication
- Cross-functional integration with infrastructure, network, and security teams
- Enterprise SAN/NAS platforms and storage virtualization
- Enterprise backup/recovery, replication, and disaster recovery operations
- Storage performance monitoring, tuning, and capacity management methodologies
- Advanced troubleshooting of mission-critical storage issues and operational risk assessment
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience supporting U.S. federal IT environments with FISMA/NIST/OMB compliance requirements.
- Experience architecting or supporting observability platforms and enterprise monitoring integrations in large environments.
- Hands-on experience with container platforms and automation frameworks (e.g., OpenShift, Kubernetes, Ansible, GitOps toolchains).
- Experience leading architecture initiatives in 24x7x365 enterprise operations organizations.
- Prior support to SEC or similarly regulated financial-sector federal agencies.
- NetApp Certified Data Administrator Certification (NCDA) or equivalent
- Proficiency in Ansible, Python, BASH
- Experience developing and enforcing storage standards, policies, and operational best practices.
