Data Engineer - TS/SCI

Location: Bethesda, MD

• Category: Systems Engineering
• Travel Required: No
• Remote Type: No
• Clearance: TS/SCI

Sunayu, LLC is seeking a Data Storage Engineer to support the National Digital Exploitation & OSINT Center (NDOC). This role requires technical expertise in storage engineering, system administration, and operations. This role is responsible for optimizing the configuration of the enterprise storage infrastructure to maximize availability, performance, and capacity. This role participates in the lifecycle process of purchasing, installing, maintaining, and replacing storage devices across on-premise and cloud IT environments. This role collects and evaluates metrics to optimize storage operations. This individual identifies risks, performs assessments, and analyzes risk mitigation strategies. Finally, this individual is responsible for developing and maintaining system documentation and procedures in accordance with customer requirements. The Customer utilizes an Agile Framework to plan and successfully complete all initiatives.

The work location is in Bethesda at the Intelligence Community Campus.

Full Life Cycle Engineering Duties and Primary Tasks:

Systems Engineering / Architecture / Lifecycle Design

• Design and engineer scalable enterprise storage architectures supporting performance, resiliency, high availability, and mission growth requirements across on-premise and cloud environments.
• Develop logical and physical storage architectures, reference designs, and engineering roadmaps aligned to customer mission requirements and future capacity demands.
• Perform systems design and engineering analysis for storage modernization initiatives, including solution trade studies, technology evaluations, and engineering recommendations.
• Engineer lifecycle replacement strategies for enterprise storage infrastructure, balancing risk, obsolescence, cost, and operational continuity.
• Develop and maintain engineering artifacts including architecture diagrams, low-level designs, interface documentation, data flow mappings, and implementation plans.
• Apply systems engineering principles to storage integration, interoperability, performance optimization, and infrastructure resilience.
• Perform engineering analysis of system dependencies, failure modes, and technical risks; develop mitigation strategies to improve reliability and supportability.

Advanced Engineering / Design Responsibilities

Engineer and optimize storage solutions for multi-petabyte environments supporting virtualization, GPU/compute-intensive workloads, and mission-critical applications.

Provide engineering support for performance modeling, capacity forecasting, and lifecycle planning using operational metrics and trend analysis.

Contribute to disaster recovery architecture, data protection engineering, and continuity solution design for enterprise storage services.

Experience with systems engineering lifecycle methodologies, including requirements development, systems design, architecture, integration, testing, sustainment, and lifecycle refresh.

Demonstrated knowledge of storage systems architecture, lifecycle engineering, and infrastructure modernization principles.

Familiarity with model-based or traditional systems engineering disciplines, architecture frameworks, and engineering documentation practices preferred.

Install, configure, and administer enterprise storage systems from multiple vendors to include, but not limited to, Dell EMC and Quantum

Install, configure, and administer Rubrik server and client software. Schedule and monitor backup policies. Generate backup status reports as required

Administer Cisco Brocade fiber channel switch fabrics. Configure single initiator zone sets and monitor switch utilization and performance

Create and secure SMB file shares

Coordinate with server administrators to create, secure, and mount NFS exports

Develop and implement Disaster Recovery and Continuity of Operations plans in accordance with customer requirements

Install, configure, maintain, and administer Linux and Windows servers in support of storage operations such as Rubrik, Media, DSM and Master servers

Build capacity management dashboards that improve visibility into enterprise storage use, health, resilience, and provide ongoing resources for planning for enterprise infrastructure lifecycle replacement

Configure Rubrik policies.

Troubleshoot and resolve backup job failures

Coordinate with vCenter administrators to provision Storage Area Network (SAN) resources to VMWare ESX cluster datastores as required

Configure and manage volume snapshots. Assist customers with point-in-time file restores

Schedule and monitor volume replication for disaster recovery

Monitor health and availability of infrastructure applications and systems

Work with vendors to troubleshoot and resolve hardware and software failures

Coordinate with Change Management to deconflict and schedule hardware maintenance activities, system and firmware updates, and other configuration changesExecute system changes during scheduled maintenance windows

Monitor and evaluate system performance and capacity trendsResolve tier 2 and tier 3 service requests

Identify opportunities to automate operations.

Develop automaated solutions that take advantage of Dell and NetApp system APIs

Seek opportunities for continuous improvement to support effective and efficient operations

Work with Cloud Storage solutions as needed for Cloud applications

Work independently with minimal supervision

Mentor junior team members

Basic Qualifications

Extensive experience managing and administering Veritas Rubrik

Experience with scripting technologies such as PowerShell

Working knowledge of Unix or Linux based operating systems

Working knowledge of Distributed File System (DFS)

Excellent communication skills

Ability to mentor junior team members

Ability to complete complex projects with minimal direction

Experience working independently to support a 24/7/365 customer environment

Experience contributing to deliverables and meeting performance metrics

Experience coordinating with senior management and customers

Candidate must, at a minimum, meet DoD 8570.11- IAT Level II certification requirements (currently Security+ CE,

CCNA-Security, GSEC, or SSCP along with an appropriate computing environment (CE) certification)

Extensive experience administering enterprise-level data storage systems (Dell Storage Center, Dell Compellent, and Data Domain preferred) with a demonstrated understanding of the following services and technologies

SAN administration including provisioning of LUNs, managing fibre channel zoning, and mapping storage to servers

NAS administration including NFS and SMB file sharing

Integration with VMWare ESX Server

Data migration strategies

Snapshots

Volume replication

Managing file and share permissions in an Active Directory environment

Storage monitoring and performance tuning

Understanding of Cloud storage management

Education

Bachelor's degree with 8 years of relevant experience, Master’s degree with 6 years. Education equivalency of Associate’s with 12 years of related experience or High School Diploma with 14 years of related experience can be used in lieu of Bachelor’s degree.

Clearance Requirement

• Due to the nature of the government contracts we support, US Citizenship is required.
• TS/SCI with Poly required for Position or TS/SCI and willingness to obtain a poly.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with Disaster Recovery and COOP storage backup and recovery within and across the data centers and the Cloud

Ability to analyze cloud migration approaches to support customer decision making for effective and efficient cloud migrations

Experience managing Distributed File System (DFS) namespaces

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