Description

The Compute and Storage Engineering Lead is responsible for the architecture, engineering, performance optimization, resiliency planning, and lifecycle management of enterprise compute and storage infrastructure supporting mission-critical applications and enterprise services.

Location: Rockville, MD

Salary: 130,000-172,000

Clearance: Secret or L Clearance

Responsibilities:
• Design, engineer, and support VMware cluster environments, physical host infrastructure, and associated compute resources, ensuring high availability, optimal capacity utilization, and compliance with enterprise uptime and SLA requirements.
• Administer enterprise SAN and NAS storage platforms, including LUN provisioning, storage allocation, replication configuration, performance tuning, and capacity forecasting to support database, application, and virtual machine workloads.
• Ensure integration between storage systems and enterprise backup platforms such as Commvault, validating backup operations, snapshot management, and replication alignment with disaster recovery objectives.
• Monitor compute and storage performance using enterprise monitoring tools, proactively addressing latency, resource contention, and capacity constraints to prevent service degradation.
• Lead infrastructure lifecycle management and technology refresh initiatives, developing modernization roadmaps and presenting recommendations to senior IT leadership during governance reviews.
• Participate in Change Advisory Board (CAB) processes to ensure compute and storage changes are properly risk assessed, documented, tested, and approved prior to production deployment.
• Support disaster recovery and continuity of operations exercises by validating cluster failover capabilities and storage replication integrity in coordination with DR stakeholders.

Requirements
• Bachelor's Degree and 8+ years of relevant experience engineering and supporting enterprise compute and storage infrastructure.
• Strong experience designing and optimizing VMware cluster and hypervisor environments.
• Advanced knowledge of SAN and NAS architectures, storage replication technologies, and performance optimization techniques.
• Experience with storage provisioning, LUN management, tiering strategies, and long-term capacity planning.
• Experience integrating storage platforms with enterprise backup solutions such as Commvault.
• Knowledge of high-availability architectures and failover design principles.
• Experience using enterprise monitoring tools for compute and storage performance analysis.
• Familiarity with infrastructure lifecycle planning and hardware modernization strategies.
• Preferred certifications: VMware Certified Professional (VCP); NetApp Certified Data Administrator (NCDA) or equivalent storage certification.

Clearance:
SECRET or L Clearance

Full-Time Employees are eligible to participate in our ActioNet's Benefits Program:

• Medical Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Life and AD&D Insurance
• 401(k) Savings Plan
• Education and Professional Training
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
• Employee Referral and Merit Recognition Programs
• Employee Assistance and Identity Theft Protection
• Paid Holidays: 11 per year
• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Disability Insurance

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