Storage Mgmt. Lead
Position Overview
The Storage Mgmt. Lead is responsible for the design, implementation, and ongoing operations of enterprise storage platforms that support highly available applications and data services in a federal IT environment. This role leads the storage engineering function, ensuring on‑premises and cloud‑based storage solutions meet capacity, performance, resilience, and security objectives. The Storage Mgmt. Lead collaborates closely with infrastructure, virtualization, cloud, and application teams to integrate storage capabilities into mission‑critical systems and services.
The position provides technical and operational leadership over SAN, NAS, and cloud storage environments, including backup, replication, and disaster recovery. The Storage Mgmt. Lead defines storage standards, processes, and documentation to ensure consistent delivery, compliance with enterprise policies, and readiness for audits and continuity events. This role serves as the primary escalation point for complex storage issues and drives continuous improvement of tools, automation, and monitoring for storage services.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the design, deployment, and administration of enterprise storage platforms, including SAN, NAS, and cloud storage, to support both virtualized and physical workloads.
- Oversee storage provisioning, tiering, and performance tuning practices to meet defined service levels for availability, throughput, and latency.
- Direct the design and execution of data protection strategies, including backup, replication, snapshot, and mirroring solutions that support recovery time and recovery point objectives.
- Collaborate with server, virtualization, database, and network teams to integrate storage solutions with enterprise infrastructure, ensuring secure and efficient data flows.
- Establish and maintain storage standards, runbooks, and configuration baselines, including procedures for capacity planning, incident response, and change management.
- Lead root‑cause analysis and corrective action planning for complex storage incidents, coordinating remediation across infrastructure and application stakeholders.
- Evaluate and recommend storage technologies, tools, and vendors, contributing to roadmaps, upgrade plans, and optimization initiatives.
- Provide technical guidance and mentoring to storage engineers and administrators supporting day‑to‑day operations and project delivery.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field; or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
- At least 8 years of experience in enterprise storage engineering, architecture, or infrastructure roles supporting mission‑critical systems.
- Demonstrated expertise with storage technologies including SAN, NAS, and cloud‑based storage, and with major storage platforms (e.g., NetApp, EMC, or similar).
- Hands‑on experience implementing and managing backup, replication, and disaster‑recovery solutions for large‑scale environments.
- Strong understanding of storage performance concepts, capacity planning, and monitoring, including use of storage management and automation tools.
- U.S. citizenship with the ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust investigation, as required by federal clients.
- Willingness to travel 10–25% as needed to support enterprise infrastructure sites and stakeholder engagements.
Preferred Qualifications
- Vendor or industry storage certifications such as NetApp Certified Data Administrator (NCDA), EMC Proven Professional, or equivalent.
- Experience leading or mentoring technical staff supporting storage or broader infrastructure services.
- Familiarity with storage integrations for virtualization platforms, cloud services, and enterprise backup/DR tooling in a highly regulated environment.
- Demonstrated experience supporting storage services in large federal or similarly regulated enterprise IT organizations.