Requisition #: 1974
Job Title: Senior System Engineer III (Storage)
Location: Pocatello, ID
Clearance Level: Top Secret with SCI eligibility and the ability to obtain and maintain a CI Polygraph
Job DescriptionJob Summary
We are seeking an experienced Senior Storage Engineer III to design, deploy, operate, and support enterprise-grade storage infrastructure in complex, mission-critical environments. This role requires deep expertise across SAN, NAS, and related technologies, with a focus on high availability, security, performance, and operational excellence. The position involves serving as a subject matter expert for storage environments supporting both bare-metal and virtualized workloads.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, deploy, test, certify, patch, and provide ongoing support for highly available enterprise storage infrastructure, including SAN, NAS/NFS/SMB, Fibre Channel, iSCSI, tape, local disk, arrays, and related components, while addressing interoperability, performance, and feature dependencies.
- Serve as the storage subject matter expert; evaluate, improve, and maintain security, backup, redundancy, and availability strategies across the storage infrastructure, including verification of replication, failover copies, and multi-factor authentication integration.
- Basic Windows Server storage-related experience related NTFS security, ACLs, VSS snapshots, DFS, and POSIX.
- Perform file-based data migrations using tools such as Robocopy and Rsync, following methodical change processes to minimize risk and downtime.
- Implement and maintain core storage technologies, including RAID, tiering/HSM, caching, compression, deduplication, replication, snapshots, multipathing, thin provisioning, and support for block, file, and object storage use cases.
- Create and maintain storage configurations for bare-metal and virtual machines including working experience with vSphere
- Monitor systems to identify and resolve hardware failures, performance bottlenecks, and capacity issues; configure proactive alerts and recovery processes.
- Install, configure, and maintain management tools, SAN infrastructure, plugins, firmware, and patches.
- Develop and maintain custom scripts (including automated provisioning and Infrastructure as a Service workflows) to improve operational efficiency.
- Provide final-level support, liaise with vendors and other IT teams for cross-team resolution, and collaborate with developers on application performance.
- Maintain comprehensive, regularly updated technical documentation covering inventory, configurations, patch levels, hostnames, IP addresses, hardware details, access controls, certificates, and service accounts.
- Integrate storage solutions with Windows and Linux environments.
- Deliver real-time reporting on provisioned/utilized capacity, performance metrics, and trends.
- Transfer knowledge to team members through training and documentation following industry best practices.
- Participate in the design of information and operational support systems.
Education and Background- Bachelor's Degree Preferred.
Required Skills- 10+ years of experience with enterprise storage systems in large-scale, mission-critical IT environments.
- Active Top Secret clearance with SCI Eligibility; must be capable of obtaining and maintaining CI-Poly.
Preferred Skills- Certifications from top tier storage vendors such as DellEMC, Hitachi, EverPure, Cohesity, and others.
- Advanced mainstream storage vendor certification(s).
- Bachelor's degree.
- Experience with additional platforms or technologies such as Pure Storage, NetApp, Cohesity, object storage (S3), or related tools is beneficial.
- Strong hands-on experience with enterprise storage arrays, SAN/NAS, Fibre Channel, iSCSI, and related protocols.
- Functional knowledge of Windows Server, Active Directory integration for storage access, NTFS/POSIX permissions, and related technologies.
- Understanding of RAID, replication, snapshots, multipathing, virtualization storage (VMware), and data reduction techniques.
- Ability to follow rigorous change management processes in production environments.
Working Conditions- Office and datacenter environment.
- Ability to sit and stand for extended periods.
- Occasionally lift 50+ lbs (team lifts).
$170,000 - $190,000 a year
In addition, Agile Defense invests in its employees beyond just compensation. Agile's benefits offerings include, dependent upon position, Health Insurance, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, Holiday Pay, short-term and long-term Disability, Retirement and Learning and Development opportunities as well as other optional benefit elections.
