Job#: 3049110 Job Description:Remote Storage Engineer - Architect
Location: Remote
Role Overview
The System Architect - SME (Storage) provides senior technical leadership for enterprise infrastructure architecture and modernization. This role translates mission and functional requirements into scalable, secure technical solutions across on-premises and hybrid/multi-cloud environments. The architect leads cross-functional engineering and operations teams to improve reliability, automation, and service performance, while ensuring designs integrate with 24x7x365 enterprise operations and observability requirements.
Key Responsibilities
- Architect and manage enterprise IT systems across server, platform, storage, and cloud domains.
- Design, implement, and maintain enterprise SAN/NAS and storage virtualization solutions.
- Translate functional requirements into technical architectures, integration patterns, and implementation roadmaps.
- Lead complex storage projects, including migrations, upgrades, and integration with cloud environments.
- Develop and maintain architecture documentation, standards, and technical decision artifacts.
- Identify, assess, and recommend new technologies through proofs of concept, pilots, and demos.
- Provide technical leadership to multi-discipline server and system operations teams.
- Architect and maintain enterprise backup and recovery strategies to protect mission-critical data.
- Administer and optimize large-scale enterprise storage environments, including performance and capacity management.
- Collaborate with infrastructure, network, security, and cloud teams to integrate storage services end-to-end.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in a relevant field.
- 8+ years of experience in IT infrastructure roles, with at least 5 years focused on Azure cloud engineering.
- Demonstrated experience designing and managing secure, highly available cloud environments for enterprise services.
- Proven experience leading Azure cloud migration and modernization efforts in regulated environments.
- Experience designing and administering Azure cloud enterprise implementations using resources such as Virtual Machines, Scale sets, and Azure containers or Kubernetes.
- Strong experience with Azure tools such as Azure DevOps, Repos, Pipelines, and Boards.
- Experience in IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS cloud hosting architecture and design patterns.
Technical Skills:- Cloud networking, storage, app services, virtualization, and containerization.
- DevSecOps practices, CI/CD pipeline implementation, and automation.
- Infrastructure-as-Code at production scale: PowerShell, Bicep, ARM templates, and Terraform.
- Cloud governance and security in Azure: Azure Policy, RBAC, conditional access, managed identities.
- Zero-trust security principles and secure cloud configuration practices.
- Microsoft Entra Identity services.
Preferred Qualifications
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
- Experience supporting federal agency IT environments with security and compliance requirements.
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes/OpenShift and cloud-native container platform operations.
- Experience integrating observability and ITSM platforms to improve service reliability.
- Experience implementing immutable infrastructure and policy-as-code controls.
- Experience with cloud cost management and FinOps practices.
- HashiCorp Terraform Associate
PLEASE NOTE: Candidates must be able to obtain and/or maintain a Public Trust clearance as a condition and continuation of employment.
Work Environment
This position is designated for telework. Participation in on-call or surge support activities may be required depending on operational needs. Travel may be required as per contract direction.
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