Storage Engineer

JOB TITLE: STORAGE ENGINEER JOB LOCATION: WASHINGTON, DC WAGE RANGE : 58.00-62.00 PER HOUR JOB NUMBER: SAIJP JOB DESCRIPTION The Storage Engineer-_SME provides senior technical leadership for enterprise storage services under the SEC Infrastructure Support Services (ISS) contract. This role architects, implements, and sustains highly available storage platforms supporting mission-critical SEC workloads across primary, alternate, and regional environments. The engineer drives performance optimization, capacity planning, and resilient backup and recovery strategies to meet recovery objectives, continuity requirements, and operational service levels. This position ensures storage operations align with organizational and federal compliance requirements and coordinates closely with EOC, infrastructure, network, and security teams. Enterprise Storage Architecture and Engineering - Design, implement, and maintain enterprise SAN/NAS and storage virtualization solutions for mission-critical systems. - Develop storage strategies, standards, and policies aligned with organizational and federal compliance requirements. - Lead complex storage projects, including migrations, upgrades, and integration with cloud and on-premises environments. - Ensure storage platforms are engineered for high availability, data integrity, and scalability across SEC environments. Storage Operations, Performance, and Capacity Management - Administer and optimize large-scale enterprise storage environments, including proactive monitoring and health management. - Perform capacity planning and forecasting to maintain service continuity and prevent resource constraints. - Troubleshoot and resolve advanced storage incidents, including latency, throughput, replication, and platform stability issues. - Establish and track operational metrics and trend analysis to support service-level performance. Data Protection, Recovery, and Compliance - Architect and maintain enterprise backup and recovery strategies to protect mission-critical data. - Implement and validate disaster recovery and business continuity storage controls, including cross-site replication and recovery readiness. - Ensure retention, recovery, and data protection practices meet organizational policy and federal compliance requirements. - Support audit readiness by maintaining storage documentation, configuration baselines, and implementation evidence. Technical Leadership and Cross-Functional Delivery - Lead storage workstreams for migrations, technology refreshes, and modernization efforts with minimal operational disruption. - Collaborate with infrastructure, network, security, virtualization, and cloud teams to integrate storage services end-to-end. - Conduct risk assessments and recommend remediation strategies for storage resiliency, security, and operational risk. - Mentor junior engineers and serve as the storage SME for incident response, strategic planning, and continuous improvement initiatives. Equal opportunity employer as to all protected groups, including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities While an hourly range is posted for this position, an eventual hourly rate is determined by a comprehensive salary analysis which considers multiple factors including but not limited to: job-related knowledge, skills and qualifications, education and experience as compared to others in the organization doing substantially similar work, if applicable, and market and business considerations. Benefits offered include medical, dental and vision benefits; dependent care flexible spending account; 401(k) plan; voluntary life/short term disability/whole life/term life/accident and critical illness coverage; employee assistance program; sick leave in accordance with regulation. Benefits may be subject to generally applicable eligibility, waiting period, contribution, and other requirements and conditions. Benefits offered are in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws and subject to change at TCM's discretion.