Storage / SAN Engineer (Senior)

DecisionPoint seeks a Senior Storage / SAN Engineer to support enterprise storage, Storage Area Network infrastructure, data protection, service restoration, component modernization, and continuity-of-operations capabilities for the USMEPCOM ENLIST program. 

The Storage / SAN Engineer will configure and troubleshoot SAN fabrics, storage arrays, Fibre Channel switches, zoning, Fabric Logins, and World Wide Name and Port World Wide Name connectivity. This role will support storage performance analysis, capacity management, component refreshes, migrations, recovery activities, technical documentation, and integration with server, virtualization, network, cloud, backup, and security platforms. 

The engineer will also support COOP and disaster-recovery readiness, exercises, failover activities, backup validation, service restoration, and corrective-action planning. 

This position is remote, with a preference for candidates located in the Chicago area. After-hours work or travel may be required during outages, maintenance windows, storage migrations, refreshes, COOP exercises, or COOP activation. 

• →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. 

• Experience supporting enterprise storage or SAN infrastructure in a federal or Department of Defense environment. 

• Experience with Dell Technologies, NetApp, Pure Storage, HPE, IBM, Hitachi, or comparable enterprise storage platforms. 

• Experience with Brocade, Cisco MDS, or comparable Fibre Channel switching technologies. 

• Advanced knowledge of Fibre Channel fabrics, zoning, FLOGIs, name services, inter-switch links, host-bus adapters, multipathing, and redundant storage designs. 

• Experience with Fibre Channel, iSCSI, NFS, SMB, object storage, and cloud-storage technologies. 

• Experience integrating storage with VMware vSphere, ESXi, vCenter, vSAN, Microsoft, Linux, database, backup, and cloud platforms. 

• Experience with snapshots, replication, backup, restoration, failover, failback, and disaster-recovery technologies. 

• Experience supporting COOP or disaster-recovery exercises involving physically separated data centers. 

• Experience diagnosing storage latency, throughput, IOPS, capacity, pathing, fabric, host, and application-performance issues. 

• Experience planning and executing storage refreshes, data migrations, firmware upgrades, array replacements, and SAN cutovers. 

• Experience developing capacity forecasts, storage-allocation recommendations, performance reports, and lifecycle plans. 

• Experience supporting storage-related outages, vendor escalation, service restoration, and root-cause analysis. 

• Experience applying DISA STIGs and supporting DoD RMF, ATO, IAVA, CND Directive, vulnerability-remediation, and POA&M requirements. 

• Certifications from Dell Technologies, NetApp, Pure Storage, HPE, IBM, Hitachi, Brocade, Cisco, VMware, or another relevant storage or infrastructure provider. 

• CompTIA Server+, Storage Networking Industry Association certification, or an equivalent industry credential. 

• 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. 

• EEO and Affirmative Action Policy: DecisionPoint Corporation is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. It is the policy of DecisionPoint Corporation to provide equal employment opportunity in accordance with all applicable Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action laws, directives and regulations to all employees and qualified applicants without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other protected status under Federal, State or Local laws.
• Pay Transparency Policy: In accordance with Presidential Executive Order 13665, DecisionPoint Corporation will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information.
• Authorization to Share Resume and Personal Information: By expressing your interest and submitting your resume for this position, you authorize DecisionPoint Corporation to share your resume, as well as personal information included on the resume, with its subsidiaries, affiliates and teaming partners for the purpose of considering you for this position and other available positions requiring comparable skills, education and experience. Should DecisionPoint Corporation. or its affiliates and teaming partners wish to initiate pre-employment discussions, you will be asked to complete an employment application and related employment documents.