Storage Engineer III
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 29, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 13, 2026.
Overview
Future Opportunities: Principal Storage Engineer III
Are you a Principal Storage Engineer ready to take your career to the next level while supporting critical national missions? Edgewater Federal Solutions is actively building a pipeline of talented professionals for future full-time Principal Storage Engineer III opportunities across our growing programs.
Locations:
- Pocatello, ID
- Huntsville, AL
- Clarksburg, WV
Whether you already hold an Active Top Secret Clearance or are seeking an employer willing to sponsor you for one, we encourage you to apply and connect with our team. We are committed to investing in exceptional talent and can sponsor qualified candidates for a Top Secret clearance.
We're seeking experienced storage professionals who thrive in complex enterprise environments, enjoy solving challenging infrastructure problems, and want their work to have a meaningful impact. By joining our talent community today, you'll be among the first considered as new opportunities become available across our federal and national security programs.
If you're looking for an opportunity to apply your expertise in enterprise storage, data management, and mission-critical infrastructure while advancing your career, we'd love to hear from you.
Future Full-Time Opportunities
Top Secret Clearance Sponsorship Available
Work on Mission-Critical Government Programs
Career Growth and Advancement Potential
Enterprise Storage and Infrastructure Environments
Early Consideration for Upcoming Openings
Join our Principal Storage Engineer III talent pipeline today and position yourself for future opportunities with a team dedicated to supporting some of the nation's most important missions. Apply now to stay connected with upcoming openings in Pocatello, ID, Huntsville, AL, and Clarksburg, WV.
Responsibilities
- Supporting highly available enterprise grade storage arrays and storage networking equipment.
- NAS/file storage protocols such as SMB/CIFS, NFS v3 and v4.
- ISCSI and/or Fiber Channel Fabric connections to switches and arrays.
- Functional knowledge and experience with Windows Server operating system and Active Directory/LDAP/DNS/NTP/Kerberos - specifically how these affect network file system storage access in Windows.
- Windows NTFS security settings, Windows ACLs, VSS snapshots.
- POSIX OS ACLs/mode-bits as it pertains to file system permissions.
- Managing Windows Distributed File System (DFS) for SMB HA.
- Experience with file-based data migrations utilizing applications like Robocopy and Rsync.
- Methodical approach to change execution and implementation to avoid risk and downtime in an enterprise environment.
- Understanding of storage concepts like RAID, hard disk technology, disk/device tiering (HSM), disk cache, compression, data-deduplication, replication, snapshots, and host multipathing.
- Understanding of block, file, and object-based storage as well as their appropriate use cases.
- Familiarity with virtualization, VMFS, vVols, specifically VMware VCenter/vSphere/vSAN as it pertains to thin provisioning storage and data reduction techniques.
- Experience with any of the following is a plus: Cohesity, Pure Storage FlashArray or FlashBlade, DellEMC, object protocols (S3), Dell Compellent, Western Digital Intelliflash, NetApp, EMC VNX, Isilon, Hitachi Arrays and Hitachi Command Suite.
Qualifications
- 10+ years of storage related experience.
- Must have active Top-Secret Clearance or be eligible.
- Advanced mainstream storage vendor certification preferred.
- Bachelor’s degree preferred but not required.
- Experience managing and maintaining mainframe storage systems using the FICON (Fiber Channel Connection) protocol is highly preferred.
About Us:
Edgewater Federal Solutions is a privately held government contracting firm located in Frederick, MD. The company was founded in 2002 with the vision of being highly recognized and admired for supporting customer missions through employee empowerment, exceptional services, and timely delivery. Edgewater Federal Solutions is ISO 9001, 20000-1, 270001 certified, appraised at CMMI Level 3 Maturity for Development and Services, and has been named in the Top Workplaces in the Greater Washington Area Small Companies for 2018 through 2025.
It has been and continues to be the policy of Edgewater Federal Solutions to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, and/or other status protected by applicable law.