Information Technology Subject Matter Expert – Enterprise Storage & Backup

<div class="content-intro"><h3>About Us</h3> <div> <div>AGE Solutions is a premier technology and professional services company, providing in-depth consulting, advanced technology solutions, and essential services throughout the U.S. government, defense, and intelligence sectors. Prioritizing innovation and client-focused solutions, we assist major agencies in addressing intricate issues and ensuring a more secure future.</div> </div></div><p>AGE Solutions is seeking an experienced <strong>Information Technology Subject Matter Expert (IT SME) – Enterprise Storage & Backup</strong> to support our DoD customer. This position provides senior-level technical expertise, leadership, and advisory support for enterprise storage, backup, recovery, and data protection infrastructure supporting mission-critical DoD environments.</p> <p>The IT SME will provide hands-on technical leadership across enterprise SAN, NAS, object storage, backup, recovery, and cloud storage environments. The successful candidate will have extensive experience designing, implementing, integrating, troubleshooting, securing, and sustaining enterprise storage and data protection solutions.</p> <p><strong>Responsibilities Include: </strong></p> <ul> <li>Provide senior-level technical leadership and advisory support for enterprise storage, backup, recovery, and data protection infrastructure.</li> <li>Design, architect, deploy, configure, integrate, and sustain enterprise storage arrays, SAN/NAS environments, storage fabrics, and backup solutions.</li> <li>Administer and troubleshoot enterprise storage technologies, including Fibre Channel zoning, iSCSI, FCoE, HBA/CNA technologies, storage controllers, LUNs, RAID, NAS, and hierarchical storage systems.</li> <li>Support enterprise storage and data protection platforms, including NetApp, Pure Storage, Cohesity DataProtect, NetBackup, and Brocade Fibre Channel switching.</li> <li>Design and maintain disaster recovery, backup, replication, restoration, and business continuity solutions for mission-critical systems.</li> <li>Support cloud-based storage and backup solutions across AWS, Microsoft Azure, and OCI environments.</li> <li>Troubleshoot complex storage performance, connectivity, replication, and backup failures; perform root-cause analysis and implement corrective actions.</li> <li>Implement storage security controls, including encryption, data immutability, ransomware mitigation, access controls, and secure data protection practices.</li> <li>Apply and support DISA STIGs, IAVAs, and DoD cybersecurity requirements applicable to enterprise storage and backup infrastructure.</li> <li>Support Windows and RHEL systems with storage presentation, volume management, multipathing (MPIO), and backup agent configuration.</li> <li>Support backup and restoration requirements for Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, and other enterprise database environments.</li> <li>Develop and maintain automation using PowerShell, Python, Bash, and related technologies for storage provisioning, capacity management, backup scheduling, monitoring, and routine administration.</li> <li>Integrate storage and data protection capabilities into automated provisioning and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) workflows where applicable.</li> <li>Lead storage and data protection initiatives through planning, design, implementation, data migration, transition, and sustainment phases.</li> <li>Prepare and maintain technical documentation, including architecture documentation, project plans, status reports, disaster recovery runbooks, procedures, job guides, and system documentation.</li> <li>Provide technical guidance and mentorship to engineers and administrators whil