Remote Storage Administrator (SAN Engineer)

About the role

A 100% remote SAN Engineer / Storage Administrator is sought to support a large federal government healthcare modernization project, specifically the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Data Migration & Syndication (DMS) initiative within the Electronic Health Record Modernization Integration Office (EHRM-IO). The engineer administers, maintains and optimizes enterprise storage infrastructure (HPE, NetApp, Pure Storage, Brocade) across on-premises and Microsoft Azure environments, working in a remote, multidisciplinary infrastructure and engineering team.

Key responsibilities

• Install, configure, administer and optimize SAN infrastructure (Brocade Fibre Channel switches, HPE 3PAR, Primera and Alletra, NetApp AFF, Pure Storage FlashArray and FlashBlade) supporting about nine petabytes of storage.
• Monitor capacity, utilization, performance and availability with tools such as HPE InfoSight, HPE SSMC, NetApp ONTAP, Pure1, SolarWinds and SANnav, and produce capacity forecasts, metrics and weekly status reports.
• Administer backup, recovery and data protection with Commvault, snapshots, snapclones, SQL Server backup tools, HPE tape libraries and Azure archival storage.
• Support storage integration, refresh initiatives and large-scale data migrations across EHRM, BISL and Azure, including workload migration and device provisioning.
• Troubleshoot connectivity, hardware, firmware and performance issues, coordinating with vendor support teams for root cause analysis.
• Maintain documentation (technical guides, topology diagrams, build guides, capacity reports, ATO) and evaluate AI-assisted tools for automation, analytics and reporting.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electronics Engineering or another engineering/technical discipline, or 8 years of additional relevant experience; minimum 5 years of relevant professional experience.
• Strong hands-on experience administering enterprise SAN and storage infrastructure.
• Experience with Fibre Channel SANs, storage arrays and connectivity across on-premises and Azure environments.
• Working knowledge of enterprise backup and recovery technologies.
• Excellent communication, documentation and collaboration skills.
• U.S. citizenship, successful background check, and ability to obtain and maintain a Government/Public Trust clearance.

Required skills

• NetApp ONTAP, HPE Primera, HPE 3PAR, HP Lefthand, HP Storage Essentials, HP SN8700 Fibre Channel switches
• Backup and recovery: Commvault, snapshots, snapclones, hierarchical storage management
• Preferred: HPE InfoSight, HPE SSMC, HPE 3PAR CLI, Pure1, SANnav, PowerShell, GitHub Copilot

What we offer

• Medical, dental and vision coverage
• 401k with employer match
• PTO and federal holidays
• Corporate laptop and training opportunities