DevOps Storage Engineer - Federal Customer

DevOps Storage Engineer - Federal Customer

(on-site 5 days per week, Chantilly, VA: TS/SCI Required)

Job summary

If you enjoy working with new technologies, enterprise-leading equipment, and seek to design, deploy, and maintain enterprise storage solutions, we would like to speak to you. This position will play a key critical role in building, maintaining, and optimizing the underlying infrastructure to support Enterprise Information Technology (IT) workloads.

You will join a diverse team of engineers to design, deploy, maintain, and secure platform infrastructure. You will collaborate with people inside and outside the organization to deliver the highest standards for building, deploying, and securing infrastructure.

Key Job Responsibilities

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

Required Qualifications

• 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 admi

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