Storage Mgmt. Lead

ASM Research, An Accenture Federal Services Company

Olympia, WA

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JOB DETAILS

SALARY

$99,300–$150,000 Per Year

SKILLS

Administrative Skills, Automation, Capacity Management, Capacity and Performance Management, Change Management, Cloud Applications, Cloud Computing, Cloud Storage, Compensation and Benefits, Computer Science, Continuous Improvement, Contract Requirements, Corrective Action, Data Administration, Disaster Recovery, Documentation, EMC Proven Professional Certification (EPP), Employee Benefits, Hardware Virtualization, High Availability Software, Incident Response, Information Technology & Information Systems, Information/Data Security (InfoSec), Leadership, Lift/Move 50 Pounds, Machine Tool, Mentoring, NetApp Storage Systems, Network Attached Storage (NAS), Network Integration, Performance Tuning/Optimization, Physical Demands, Process Improvement, Replication and Remote Mirroring, Root Cause Analysis, Security Clearance, Software Administration, Standards Development, Storage Architecture, Storage Area Network (SAN), Storage Software, Technical Leadership, Technical Support, United States Citizen, Virtualization, Willing to Travel

LOCATION

Olympia, WA

POSTED

30+ days ago

**Position Overview** The Storage Mgmt. Lead is responsible for the design, implementation, and ongoing operations of enterprise storage platforms that support highly available applications and data services in a federal IT environment. This role leads the storage engineering function, ensuring on-premises and cloud-based storage solutions meet capacity, performance, resilience, and security objectives. The Storage Mgmt. Lead collaborates closely with infrastructure, virtualization, cloud, and application teams to integrate storage capabilities into mission-critical systems and services. The position provides technical and operational leadership over SAN, NAS, and cloud storage environments, including backup, replication, and disaster recovery. The Storage Mgmt. Lead defines storage standards, processes, and documentation to ensure consistent delivery, compliance with enterprise policies, and readiness for audits and continuity events. This role serves as the primary escalation point for complex storage issues and drives continuous improvement of tools, automation, and monitoring for storage services. **Key Responsibilities** + Lead the design, deployment, and administration of enterprise storage platforms, including SAN, NAS, and cloud storage, to support both virtualized and physical workloads. + Oversee storage provisioning, tiering, and performance tuning practices to meet defined service levels for availability, throughput, and latency. + Direct the design and execution of data protection strategies, including backup, replication, snapshot, and mirroring solutions that support recovery time and recovery point objectives. + Collaborate with server, virtualization, database, and network teams to integrate storage solutions with enterprise infrastructure, ensuring secure and efficient data flows. + Establish and maintain storage standards, runbooks, and configuration baselines, including procedures for capacity planning, incident response, and change management. + Lead root-cause analysis and corrective action planning for complex storage incidents, coordinating remediation across infrastructure and application stakeholders. + Evaluate and recommend storage technologies, tools, and vendors, contributing to roadmaps, upgrade plans, and optimization initiatives. + Provide technical guidance and mentoring to storage engineers and administrators supporting day-to-day operations and project delivery. **Required Qualifications** + Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field; or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience. + At least 8 years of experience in enterprise storage engineering, architecture, or infrastructure roles supporting mission-critical systems. + Demonstrated expertise with storage technologies including SAN, NAS, and cloud-based storage, and with major storage platforms (e.g., NetApp, EMC, or similar). + Hands-on experience implementing and managing backup, replication, and disaster-recovery solutions for large-scale environments. + Strong understanding of storage performance concepts, capacity planning, and monitoring, including use of storage management and automation tools. + U.S. citizenship with the ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust investigation, as required by federal clients. + Willingness to travel 10-25% as needed to support enterprise infrastructure sites and stakeholder engagements. **Preferred Qualifications** + Vendor or industry storage certifications such as NetApp Certified Data Administrator (NCDA), EMC Proven Professional, or equivalent. + Experience leading or mentoring technical staff supporting storage or broader infrastructure services. + Familiarity with storage integrations for virtualization platforms, cloud services, and enterprise backup/DR tooling in a highly regulated environment. + Demonstrated experience supporting storage services in large federal or similarly regulated enterprise IT organizations. **Compensation Ranges** Compensation ranges for ASM Research positions vary depending on multiple factors; including but not limited to, location, skill set, level of education, certifications, client requirements, contract-specific affordability, government clearance and investigation level, and years of experience. The compensation displayed for this role is a general guideline based on these factors and is unique to each role. Monetary compensation is one component of ASM's overall compensation and benefits package for employees. **EEO Requirements** It is the policy of ASM that an individual's race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation or national origin are not and will not be considered in any personnel or management decisions. We affirm our commitment to these fundamental policies. All recruiting, hiring, training, and promoting for all job classifications is done without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, or age. All decisions on employment are made to abide by the principle of equal employment. Physical Requirements The physical requirements described in "Knowledge, Skills and Abilities" above are representative of those which must be met by an employee to successfully perform the primary functions of this job. (For example, "light office duties' or "lifting up to 50 pounds" or "some travel" required.) Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with qualifying disabilities, who are otherwise qualified, to perform the primary functions. **Disclaimer** The preceding job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. $99,300 - $150,000 EEO Requirements It is the policy of ASM that an individual's race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, gender identity, veteran status, sexual orientation or national origin are not and will not be considered in any personnel or management decisions. We affirm our commitment to these fundamental policies. All recruiting, hiring, training, and promoting for all job classifications is done without regard to race, color, religion, sex, veteran status, disability, gender identity, or age. All decisions on employment are made to abide by the principle of equal employment.

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ASM Research, An Accenture Federal Services Company

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