Senior System Engineer III (Storage) - Top Secret Clearance Required

Agile Defense · Pocatello, ID

  • Senior
  • Full-time
  • $170,000 – $190,000
  • Posted 2026-10-27
  • Confirmed live on 28 October 2026

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About Agile Defense
 
At Agile Defense we know that action defines the outcome and new challenges require new solutions. That’s why we always look to the future and embrace change with an unmovable spirit and the courage to build for what comes next.
 
Our vision is to bring adaptive innovation to support our nation's most important missions through the seamless integration of advanced technologies, elite minds, and unparalleled agility—leveraging a foundation of speed, flexibility, and ingenuity to strengthen and protect our nation’s vital interests.

Requisition #: 1974
Job Title: Senior System Engineer III (Storage)
Location: Pocatello, ID
Clearance Level: Top Secret with SCI eligibility and the ability to obtain and maintain a CI Polygraph
 

Job Description
Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced Senior Storage Engineer III to design, deploy, operate, and support enterprise-grade storage infrastructure in complex, mission-critical environments. This role requires deep expertise across SAN, NAS, and related technologies, with a focus on high availability, security, performance, and operational excellence. The position involves serving as a subject matter expert for storage environments supporting both bare-metal and virtualized workloads.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, deploy, test, certify, patch, and provide ongoing support for highly available enterprise storage infrastructure, including SAN, NAS/NFS/SMB, Fibre Channel, iSCSI, tape, local disk, arrays, and related components, while addressing interoperability, performance, and feature dependencies.

• Serve as the storage subject matter expert; evaluate, improve, and maintain security, backup, redundancy, and availability strategies across the storage infrastructure, including verification of replication, failover copies, and multi-factor authentication integration.

• Basic Windows Server storage-related experience related NTFS security, ACLs, VSS snapshots, DFS, and POSIX.

• Perform file-based data migrations using tools such as Robocopy and Rsync, following methodical change processes to minimize risk and downtime.

• Implement and maintain core storage technologies, including RAID, tiering/HSM, caching, compression, deduplication, replication, snapshots, multipathing, thin provisioning, and support for block, file, and object storage use cases.

• Create and maintain storage configurations for bare-metal and virtual machines including working experience with vSphere

• Monitor systems to identify and resolve hardware failures, performance bottlenecks, and capacity issues; configure proactive alerts and recovery processes.

• Install, configure, and maintain management tools, SAN infrastructure, plugins, firmware, and patches.

• Develop and maintain custom scripts (including automated provisioning and Infrastructure as a Service workflows) to improve operational efficiency.

• Provide final-level support, liaise with vendors and other IT teams for cross-team resolution, and collaborate with developers on application performance.

• Maintain comprehensive, regularly updated technical documentation covering inventory, configurations, patch levels, hostnames, IP addresses, hardware details, access controls, certificates, and service accounts.

• Integrate storage solutions with Windows and Linux environments.

• Deliver real-time reporting on provisioned/utilized capacity, performance metrics, and trends.

• Transfer knowledge to team members through training and documentation following industry best practices.

• Participate in the design of information and operational support systems.

Education and Background
• Bachelor's Degree Preferred.

Required Skills
• 10+ years of experience with enterprise storage systems in large-scale, mission-critical IT environments.

• Active Top Secret clearance with SCI Eligibility; must be capable of obtaining and maintaining CI-Poly.

Preferred Skills
• Certifications from top tier storage vendors such as DellEMC, Hitachi, EverPure, Cohesity, and others.

• Advanced mainstream storage vendor certification(s).

• Bachelor’s degree.

• Experience with additional platforms or technologies such as Pure Storage, NetApp, Cohesity, object storage (S3), or related tools is beneficial.

• Strong hands-on experience with enterprise storage arrays, SAN/NAS, Fibre Channel, iSCSI, and related protocols.

• Functional knowledge of Windows Server, Active Directory integration for storage access, NTFS/POSIX permissions, and related technologies.

• Understanding of RAID, replication, snapshots, multipathing, virtualization storage (VMware), and data reduction techniques.

• Ability to follow rigorous change management processes in production environments.

Working Conditions
• Office and datacenter environment.

• Ability to sit and stand for extended periods.

• Occasionally lift 50+ lbs (team lifts).

In addition, Agile Defense invests in its employees beyond just compensation.  Agile’s benefits offeri

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