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Storage Engineer Herndon, VA Top Secret/SCI CI Polygraph Career Level not specified $120,000 - $160,000
Job Description:
Vantor is forging the new frontier of spatial intelligence, helping decision makers and operators navigate what's happening now and shape what's coming next. Vantor is a place for problem solvers, changemakers, and go-getters-where people are working together to help our customers see the world differently, and in doing so, be seen differently. Come be part of a mission, not just a job, where you can: Shape your own future, build the next big thing, and change the world. To be eligible for this position, you must be a U.S. Citizen. This position requires an active U.S. Government security clearance, applicants who do not currently hold the required clearance will not be eligible for consideration. Employment for cleared roles is contingent upon verification of clearance status. Export Control/ITAR: Certain roles may be subject to U.S. export control laws, requiring U.S. person status as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3). Please review the job details below. Vantor is seeking a Storage Engineer to support the development and integration of intelligence capabilities into test and operational environments. The successful candidate will design, deploy, and sustain enterprise storage solutions that support high-performance computing (HPC), private-cloud platforms, and mission applications. The Storage Engineer will work across the storage lifecycle, from architecture and capacity planning through deployment, operations, troubleshooting, and disaster recovery. This role will help ensure storage services remain available, secure, scalable, and capable of meeting mission performance requirements. About Our Team Our program team is a multifaceted software development and systems administration team building and maintaining mission applications supported by self-managed HPC infrastructure on a private-cloud system. We are responsible for the full technology stack, from hardware and infrastructure through platform services and the user interface. We work across engineering, operations, and development to integrate and sustain capabilities in secure environments. Team members contribute throughout the system lifecycle, with a focus on reliability, performance, security, and mission delivery.
Key Responsibilities:
- Work 100% full time in-person in a high security environment
- Design, deploy, configure, and manage enterprise storage systems supporting secure, mission-critical environments.
- Ensure storage solutions provide high availability, redundancy, data integrity, and disaster recovery across multiple data centers and physical sites.
- Monitor and optimize storage performance, capacity, and scalability while minimizing service interruptions.
- Administer storage area networks (SANs), including utilization monitoring, capacity planning, and adjustment of storage allocations to meet changing requirements.
- Perform infrastructure assessments, updates, and patches to maintain performance, security, and compliance with organizational standards.
- Troubleshoot storage issues, including performance bottlenecks, connectivity problems, hardware failures, and data access failures; conduct root cause analysis and recommend corrective actions.
- Support backup and recovery capabilities and participate in disaster recovery planning and testing.
- Develop and maintain storage architecture documentation, configurations, procedures, and operational guidance.
- Support security initiatives and ensure storage systems comply with applicable security policies, regulations, and best practices.
- Evaluate storage technologies and recommend solutions that improve performance, efficiency, reliability, and scalability.
- Collaborate with systems, platform, virtualization, networking, and application teams to integrate storage services into HPC and private-cloud environments.
- Support storage deployments and operations in test and operational environments.
Minimum Requirements:
Current Top Secret/SCI security clearance with CI polygraph. Must meet DoD 8570 IAT Level II requirements within one month of start date through at least one of the following certifications: Security+ CE, CND, SSCP, GSEC, GICSP, CySA+, or CCNA Security. Bachelor of Science degree in a technical field from an accredited university, or three additional years of storage operations experience in lieu of the degree.8 years of related experience supporting Intelligence Community (IC) or Department of Defense (DoD) systems.5+ years of experience in storage operations or storage engineering. Experience with backup solutions, storage infrastructure, storage systems, and systems architecture. Experience administering, architecting, and supporting SANs throughout their full lifecycle. Experience with storage utilization monitoring, capacity planning, and adjusting storage requirements. Ability to troubleshoot complex infrastructure issues and communicate findings to technical teams and stakeholders. Strong documentation, collaboration, and problem-solving skills. Preferred
Qualifications:
Experience working in an air-gapped, disconnected environment. Experience supporting virtualized environments such as VMware, OpenShift or OpenStack.
In-depth knowledge of Dell/EMC storage solutions and hyperconverged infrastructure.
Experience administering Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Experience installing and maintaining physical hardware systems in data centers.
Knowledge of multiple technology areas, including storage, virtualization, networking, data migration, and disaster recovery.
Experience supporting HPC or private-cloud infrastructure in secure, classified, or restricted environments.
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