Storage Engineer, Senior

The Storage Engineer, Senior provides technical leadership for enterprise storage platforms that support databases, virtual infrastructures, and other mission-critical workloads across data centers and cloud environments. This role architects scalable SAN, NAS, and object storage solutions and ensures performance, resiliency, and data protection meet organizational requirements. The engineer leads complex storage changes, migrations, and optimization efforts, coordinating closely with server, virtualization, and backup teams. Key Responsibilities Design and administer large-scale SAN and NAS infrastructures, including zoning, LUN provisioning, and multipathing for high-availability workloads. Perform detailed capacity planning, performance analysis, and storage tiering strategies that balance cost, latency, and resiliency. Integrate storage platforms with virtualization, backup, and replication technologies to support disaster recovery and business continuity objectives. Lead complex migrations, technology refreshes, and re-architecture initiatives using detailed runbooks, validation steps, and rollback options. Implement and enforce storage security practices such as encryption, access controls, and data retention policies aligned to regulatory standards. Mentor junior storage engineers, contribute to storage standards and reference architectures, and act as a high-level escalation point for severe storage incidents. Required Qualifications Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent experience. Typically 8+ years of experience in storage engineering or IT infrastructure roles. Strong expertise with SAN, NAS, and related tools (for example, NetApp, EMC, cloud storage platforms). Demonstrated experience in root cause analysis, corrective action planning, and disaster recovery for storage environments. Excellent problem-solving, analytical, communication, and organizational skills. Ability to obtain and maintain a Secret clearance; U.S. citizenship required. Preferred Qualifications Relevant storage certifications (for example, NCDA, EMC Proven Professional). Experience in highly regulated federal IT environments and with hybrid or cloud-integrated storage architectures. Compensation Ranges Compensation ranges for ASM Research positions vary depending on multiple factors; including but not limited to, location, skill set, level of education, certifications, client requirements, contract-specific affordability, government clearance and investigation level, and years of experience. The compensation displayed for this role is a general guideline based on these factors and is unique to each role. Monetary compensation is one component of ASM's overall compensation and benefits package for employees. EEO Requirements It is the policy of ASM that an individual's race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation or national origin are not and will not be considered in any personnel or management decisions. We affirm our commitment to these fundamental policies. All recruiting, hiring, training, and promoting for all job classifications is done without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, or age. All decisions on employment are made to abide by the principle of equal employment. Physical Requirements The physical requirements described in "Knowledge, Skills and Abilities" above are representative of those which must be met by an employee to successfully perform the primary functions of this job. (For example, "light office duties' or "lifting up to 50 pounds" or "some travel" required.) Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with qualifying disabilities, who are otherwise qualified, to perform the primary functions. Disclaimer The preceding job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.