Senior Storage / SAN Engineer

DecisionPoint Corporation

. Configure, administer, maintain, monitor, and troubleshoot enterprise SAN fabrics, storage arrays, switches, and supporting infrastructure .

Posted 10/26/2026full-timeRemote • Illinois • United StatesSeniorWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates extensive experience in configuring, administering, and troubleshooting SAN fabrics and storage arrays, with a strong focus on performance tuning, disaster recovery, and compliance with security standards. Proficient in integrating storage solutions with various platforms and managing complex data center operations.

Highest-signal resume keywords

SAN Fabric ConfigurationFibre Channel TroubleshootingStorage Performance TuningActive Secret ClearanceData Center Infrastructure Management

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Hard Skills

Storage Array AdministrationFibre Channel TechnologiesWWN/PWWN ConnectivityData MigrationDisaster Recovery PlanningCapacity ForecastingPerformance MonitoringZoning ConfigurationBackup and RestorationTroubleshooting Storage Issues

Soft Skills

Analytical SkillsDocumentation SkillsStakeholder CoordinationProblem-Solving SkillsCommunication Skills

Tools & Technologies

VMware vSphereDell TechnologiesNetAppPure StorageHPEIBMBrocadeCisco MDSCloud Storage TechnologiesBackup Platforms

Certifications & Qualifications

CompTIA Server+ITIL FoundationStorage Networking Industry Association Certification

Industry Keywords

Enterprise StorageDepartment of DefenseCOOP ExercisesDISA STIGsIAVACND DirectivesVulnerability RemediationRoot-Cause AnalysisService RestorationTechnical Escalation

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudLinuxNFSSwitchingVMware

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Configure, administer, maintain, monitor, and troubleshoot enterprise SAN fabrics, storage arrays, switches, and supporting infrastructure
Configure and maintain Fibre Channel fabrics, switch domains, ports, aliases, zones, zone sets, and associated fabric services
Diagnose and resolve Fabric Login, zoning, name-server, pathing, inter-switch-link, and fabric-connectivity issues
Configure and troubleshoot WWN and PWWN connectivity between storage, switches, servers, appliances, and virtualization platforms
Support storage volumes, logical unit numbers, storage pools, tiers, snapshots, clones, replication, masking, mapping, and host access
Integrate storage services with physical servers, virtual machines, VMware environments, backup platforms, databases, cloud services, and infrastructure appliances
Monitor storage availability, capacity, utilization, latency, I/O operations, throughput, cache performance, errors, and overall health
Diagnose storage-performance issues and identify bottlenecks across hosts, fabrics, arrays, networks, applications, databases, and virtualization platforms
Develop capacity forecasts and recommend storage allocation, expansion, optimization, reclamation, or refresh actions
Support storage-related incidents, performance degradation, outages, and service-restoration activities
Participate in Outage Response Team activities, providing technical diagnosis, mitigation, workarounds, recovery, and service validation
Coordinate technical escalation with storage vendors, hardware manufacturers, software providers, network teams, server teams, application teams, and Government personnel
Plan and execute storage-array, SAN-switch, firmware, software, and supporting-component refreshes
Support data migrations, platform upgrades, storage replacements, consolidation, and modernization initiatives
Develop implementation plans, migration procedures, maintenance steps, validation criteria, rollback procedures, and outage contingencies
Stage, configure, test, implement, and validate new or replacement storage and SAN components
Maintain storage, SAN, asset, configuration, warranty, licensing, support-agreement, and lifecycle records
Configure and support backup, restoration, replication, failover, failback, high availability, and disaster-recovery capabilities
Support quarterly COOP exercises involving primary and backup data centers
Support power-down, failover, backup-site operations, service validation, failback, and post-exercise corrective actions
Apply approved firmware updates, vendor patches, security patches, operating-system updates, and configuration changes
Configure storage and SAN components in accordance with applicable security requirements and DISA STIGs
Support remediation of vulnerabilities, IAVAs, CND Directives, POA&M items, and security-control deficiencies
Maintain SAN diagrams, storage architecture documents, zoning records, configuration baselines, capacity plans, recovery procedures, build documents, standard operating procedures, and troubleshooting guides
Recommend improvements that increase storage availability, performance, resilience, recoverability, security, scalability, and operational efficiency

Requirements

What you’ll need

Active Secret clearance or higher
Bachelor’s degree or a relevant technical degree
Minimum of 7 years of relevant storage engineering, SAN administration, systems engineering, data-center infrastructure, or enterprise IT experience
Demonstrated experience configuring and troubleshooting SAN fabrics, storage arrays, switches, zoning, Fabric Logins, and WWN/PWWN connectivity
Preferred: Experience supporting enterprise storage or SAN infrastructure in a federal or Department of Defense environment
Preferred: Experience with Dell Technologies, NetApp, Pure Storage, HPE, IBM, Hitachi, or comparable enterprise storage platforms
Preferred: Experience with Brocade, Cisco MDS, or comparable Fibre Channel switching technologies
Preferred: Advanced knowledge of Fibre Channel fabrics, zoning, FLOGIs, name services, inter-switch links, host-bus adapters, multipathing, and redundant storage designs
Preferred: Experience with Fibre Channel, iSCSI, NFS, SMB, object storage, and cloud-storage technologies
Preferred: Experience integrating storage with VMware vSphere, ESXi, vCenter, vSAN, Microsoft, Linux, database, backup, and cloud platforms
Preferred: Experience with snapshots, replication, backup, restoration, failover, failback, and disaster-recovery technologies
Preferred: Experience supporting COOP or disaster-recovery exercises involving physically separated data centers
Preferred: Experience diagnosing storage latency, throughput, IOPS, capacity, pathing, fabric, host, and application-performance issues
Preferred: Experience planning and executing storage refreshes, data migrations, firmware upgrades, array replacements, and SAN cutovers
Preferred: Experience developing capacity forecasts, storage-allocation recommendations, performance reports, and lifecycle plans
Preferred: Experience supporting storage-related outages, vendor escalation, service restoration, and root-cause analysis
Preferred: Experience applying DISA STIGs and supporting DoD RMF, ATO, IAVA, CND Directive, vulnerability-remediation, and POA&M requirements
Preferred: Certifications from Dell Technologies, NetApp, Pure Storage, HPE, IBM, Hitachi, Brocade, Cisco, VMware, or another relevant storage or infrastructure provider
Preferred: CompTIA Server+, Storage Networking Industry Association certification, or an equivalent industry credential
Preferred: ITIL Foundation or higher certification
Strong troubleshooting, analytical, performance-tuning, documentation, recovery-planning, and stakeholder-coordination skills
Ability to support after-hours outages, maintenance windows, migrations, refreshes, COOP exercises, and disaster-recovery activities when required

Benefits

Comp & perks

Remote work arrangement
After-hours work or travel may be required during outages, maintenance windows, storage migrations, refreshes, COOP exercises, or COOP activation