{"id":3281248,"url":"https://alion.io/job/decisionpoint-corporation-storage-san-engineer-senior","title":"Storage / SAN Engineer (Senior)","company":{"id":3863688,"name":"DecisionPoint Corporation","domain":"decisionpointcorp.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/decisionpoint-corporation","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"iCIMS","truth_index":null},"role":"DevOps","role_family":"DevOps","seniority":"senior","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"remote","remote_scope":"stated_countries","remote_scope_basis":"board_field","remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Chicago, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":["US"],"hiring_countries_total":1,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":80000,"max_usd":149000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":395},"experience_years_min":7,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"VMWare","optional":false},{"name":"ITIL","optional":true},{"name":"Linux","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-26T16:34:33Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-26","last_verified_at":"2026-10-29T03:40:14Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":2,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":2},"description":"Overview\nDecisionPoint seeks a Senior Storage / SAN Engineer to support enterprise storage, Storage Area Network infrastructure, data protection, service restoration, component modernization, and continuity-of-operations capabilities for the USMEPCOM ENLIST program.\nThe Storage / SAN Engineer will configure and troubleshoot SAN fabrics, storage arrays, Fibre Channel switches, zoning, Fabric Logins, and World Wide Name and Port World Wide Name connectivity. This role will support storage performance analysis, capacity management, component refreshes, migrations, recovery activities, technical documentation, and integration with server, virtualization, network, cloud, backup, and security platforms.\nThe engineer will also support COOP and disaster-recovery readiness, exercises, failover activities, backup validation, service restoration, and corrective-action planning.\nThis position is remote, with a preference for candidates located in the Chicago area. After-hours work or travel may be required during outages, maintenance windows, storage migrations, refreshes, COOP exercises, or COOP activation.\nNote: By applying to this position, you acknowledge and consent to having your resume included in an active competitive government contract bid.\nDuties & Responsibilities\nThe Storage / SAN Engineer will:\nConfigure, administer, maintain, monitor, and troubleshoot enterprise SAN fabrics, storage arrays, switches, and supporting infrastructure. \nConfigure and maintain Fibre Channel fabrics, switch domains, ports, aliases, zones, zone sets, and associated fabric services. \nDiagnose and resolve Fabric Login, zoning, name-server, pathing, inter-switch-link, and fabric-connectivity issues. \nConfigure and troubleshoot World Wide Name and Port World Wide Name connectivity between storage, switches, servers, appliances, and virtualization platforms. \nSupport single-initiator zoning, multi-fabric designs, redundant paths, multipathing, host-bus adapters, and high-availability storage configurations. \nConfigure and support storage volumes, logical unit numbers, storage pools, tiers, snapshots, clones, replication, masking, mapping, and host access. \nSupport Fibre Channel, iSCSI, NFS, SMB, or other approved enterprise storage protocols. \nIntegrate storage services with physical servers, virtual machines, VMware environments, backup platforms, databases, cloud services, and infrastructure appliances. \nMonitor storage availability, capacity, utilization, latency, input/output operations, throughput, cache performance, errors, and overall health. \nDiagnose storage-performance issues and identify bottlenecks involving hosts, fabrics, arrays, networks, applications, databases, or virtualization platforms. \nDevelop capacity forecasts and recommend storage allocation, expansion, optimization, reclamation, or refresh actions. \nSupport storage-related incidents, performance degradation, outages, and service-restoration activities. \nParticipate in Outage Response Team activities and provide technical diagnosis, mitigation, workarounds, recovery, and service validation. \nCollect logs, alerts, performance data, configuration records, and technical evidence for incident investigation and root-cause analysis. \nCoordinate technical escalation with storage vendors, hardware manufacturers, software providers, network teams, server teams, application teams, and Government personnel. \nTrack restoration actions, technical dependencies, corrective measures, and preventive recommendations through completion. \nPlan and execute storage-array, SAN-switch, firmware, software, and supporting-component refreshes. \nSupport data migrations, platform upgrades, storage replacements, consolidation, and modernization initiatives. \nDevelop implementation plans, migration procedures, maintenance steps, validation criteria, rollback procedures, and outage contingencies. \nStage, configure, test, implement, and validate new or replacement storage and SAN components. \nSupport non-disruptive migrations and minimize operational impact during storage-refresh and cutover activities. \nMaintain accurate storage, SAN, asset, configuration, warranty, licensing, support-agreement, and lifecycle records. \nSupport inventory audits, equipment disposition, repository updates, and lifecycle reporting. \nConfigure and support backup, restoration, replication, failover, failback, high availability, and disaster-recovery capabilities. \nMaintain, test, and validate system backups required to recover from local failures, storage failures, or loss of the primary site. \nSupport quarterly COOP exercises involving primary and backup data centers. \nSupport power-down, failover, backup-site operations, service validation, failback, and post-exercise corrective actions. \nProvide technical support during COOP activation and increased user or system demand. \nHelp develop and maintain multi-year continuity testing and exercise procedures related to storage, backup, recovery, and data-center readiness. \nSupport COOP refreshes and modernization from on-premises infrastructure to centralized or cloud-hosted solutions when applicable. \nApply approved firmware updates, vendor patches, security patches, operating-system updates, and configuration changes. \nConfigure storage and SAN components in accordance with applicable security requirements and DISA Security Technical Implementation Guides. \nSupport remediation of vulnerabilities, IAVAs, CND Directives, POA&M items, and security-control deficiencies affecting storage infrastructure. \nFollow approved incident, problem, change, configuration, release, availability, continuity, and service-transition processes. \nMaintain SAN diagrams, storage architecture documents, zoning records, configuration baselines, capacity plans, recovery procedures, build documents, standard operating procedures, and troubleshooting guides. \nRecommend improvements that increase storage availability, performance, resilience, recoverability, security, scalability, and operational efficiency. \nQualifications\nRequired Qualifications\nActive Secret clearance or higher. \nBachelor’s degree or a relevant technical degree. \nMinimum of 7 years of relevant storage engineering, SAN administration, systems engineering, data-center infrastructure, or enterprise IT experience. \nDemonstrated experience configuring and troubleshooting SAN fabrics, storage arrays, switches, zoning, Fabric Logins, and WWN/PWWN connectivity. \nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience supporting enterprise storage or SAN infrastructure in a federal or Department of Defense environment. \nExperience with Dell Technologies, NetApp, Pure Storage, HPE, IBM, Hitachi, or comparable enterprise storage platforms. \nExperience with Brocade, Cisco MDS, or comparable Fibre Channel switching technologies. \nAdvanced knowledge of Fibre Channel fabrics, zoning, FLOGIs, name services, inter-switch links, host-bus adapters, multipathing, and redundant storage designs. \nExperience with Fibre Channel, iSCSI, NFS, SMB, object storage, and cloud-storage technologies. \nExperience integrating storage with VMware vSphere, ESXi, vCenter, vSAN, Microsoft, Linux, database, backup, and cloud platforms. \nExperience with snapshots, replication, backup, restoration, failover, failback, and disaster-recovery technologies. \nExperience supporting COOP or disaster-recovery exercises involving physically separated data centers. \nExperience diagnosing storage latency, throughput, IOPS, capacity, pathing, fabric, host, and application-performance issues. \nExperience planning and executing storage refreshes, data migrations, firmware upgrades, array replacements, and SAN cutovers. \nExperience developing capacity forecasts, storage-allocation recommendations, performance reports, and lifecycle plans. \nExperience supporting storage-related outages, vendor escalation, service restoration, and root-cause analysis. \nExperience applying DISA STIGs and supporting DoD RMF, ATO, IAVA, CND Directive, vulnerability-remediation, and POA&M requirements. \nCertifications from Dell Technologies, NetApp, Pure Storage, HPE, IBM, Hitachi, Brocade, Cisco, VMware, or another relevant storage or infrastructure provider. \nCompTIA Server+, Storage Networking Industry Association certification, or an equivalent industry credential. \nITIL Foundation or higher certification. \nStrong troubleshooting, analytical, performance-tuning, documentation, recovery-planning, and stakeholder-coordination skills. \nAbility to support after-hours outages, maintenance windows, migrations, refreshes, COOP exercises, and disaster-recovery activities when required. \nOur Equal Employment Opportunity Policy\nEEO and Affirmative Action Policy: DecisionPoint Corporation is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. It is the policy of DecisionPoint Corporation to provide equal employment opportunity in accordance with all applicable Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action laws, directives and regulations to all employees and qualified applicants without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other protected status under Federal, State or Local laws.\n Pay Transparency Policy: In accordance with Presidential Executive Order 13665, DecisionPoint Corporation will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information.\n Authorization to Share Resume and Personal Information: By expressing your interest and submitting your resume for this position, you authorize DecisionPoint Corporation to share your resume, as well as personal information included on the resume, with its subsidiaries, affiliates and teaming partners for the purpose of considering you for this position and other available positions requiring comparable skills, education and experience. Should DecisionPoint Corporation. or its affiliates and teaming partners wish to initiate pre-employment discussions, you will be asked to complete an employment application and related employment documents.","description_format":"text","description_chars":10816,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":7,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":true,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Digital Government","IT Consulting & Digital Transformation","Cloud Consulting & Migration"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-26T16:34:33Z"}],"visa":[{"country":"US","licensed_sponsor":true,"evidence":"Filed H-1B visas in the last two years","filings_12m":0,"filings_prev_12m":1,"green_card_filings_12m":0,"median_offered_wage_usd":null,"route":null,"cap_exempt":false,"checked_at":"2026-10-15T11:24:14+00:00","sources":["US Department of Labor: LCA disclosure data (H-1B, H-1B1, E-3)"],"filings_for_role_12m":0}],"liveness":{"score":90,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.903,"p_room":1,"age_days":1,"expected_fill_days":14,"reasons":["conf:0","velocity","win:early","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-28T05:59:10Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/decisionpoint-corporation-storage-san-engineer-senior","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/decisionpoint-corporation-storage-san-engineer-senior.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-29T04:49:30Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":7524,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-30T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":3863688},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=3863688"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fdecisionpoint-corporation-storage-san-engineer-senior"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fdecisionpoint-corporation-storage-san-engineer-senior"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fdecisionpoint-corporation-storage-san-engineer-senior"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/decisionpoint-corporation-storage-san-engineer-senior\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fdecisionpoint-corporation-storage-san-engineer-senior"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":3281248}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"decisionpointcorp.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":3281248},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. Docs: https://alion.io/developers"}}