Senior Storage Engineer

Key Responsibilities

• Lead engineering, administration, and support of enterprise storage environments with primary focus on NetApp and Dell Unity platforms.
• Design and maintain highly available, scalable storage solutions for file, block, and hybrid workloads.
• Perform provisioning, configuration, upgrades, migrations, and decommissioning of storage systems.
• Manage and optimize storage environments, including aggregates, volumes, SVMs, snapshots, replication, quotas, tiering, and protocol configuration.
• Administer NetApp, Dell EMC, and Hitachi storage arrays, including pools, LUNs, file systems, NAS servers, snapshots, replication, FAST VP/tiering, and host connectivity.
• Support SAN and NAS infrastructure, including Fibre Channel, iSCSI, NFS, and SMB/CIFS protocols.
• Ensure system compliance with DISA STIG and DoD security requirements by leading critical hardening efforts.
• Monitor storage health, capacity, utilization, and performance; identify trends and recommend remediation or expansion strategies.
• Troubleshoot storage, replication, latency, pathing, and connectivity issues across hosts, hypervisors, and network fabrics.
• Plan and execute data migration efforts between legacy and target storage platforms with minimal downtime.
• Implement and support business continuity and disaster recovery capabilities, including snapshot policies, replication, failover, and recovery testing.
• Provide mentorship and guidance to junior administrators and team members.
• Develop and maintain documentation related to storage architecture, processes, and procedures.
• Evaluate and recommend emerging storage solutions to continuously optimize system performance and efficiency.
• Support projects to enhance the security, efficiency, or capability of the storage environment.
• Work with vendors and third‑party providers for troubleshooting and issue resolution.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with 8–12 years of relevant experience or master’s degree with 6–10 years of relevant experience (technical experience may substitute).
• Current Top Secret/SCI clearance at time of consideration.
• Must meet DoD 8570.11‑IAT Level II certification requirements (Security+ CE, CCNA‑Security, GSEC, or SSCP) at time of consideration.
• Advanced knowledge of storage systems architecture, lifecycle engineering, and infrastructure modernization principles.
• Demonstrated experience with NetApp, Dell EMC, Hitachi, VMware vSAN and other storage technologies.
• Strong working knowledge of enterprise computing environments (physical, virtual, hybrid) and server virtualization platforms (e.g., VMware).
• Working knowledge of virtualization such as VMware vSphere and backup technologies such as NetBackup, Commvault, and Veeam.
• Strong knowledge of SANs, Fibre Channel fabric, and storage technologies.
• Deep understanding of DISA STIGs, system hardening, and DoD security compliance frameworks.
• Ability to develop storage standards, architecture documentation, operational procedures, and support runbooks.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across systems, virtualization, and storage layers.

Desired Qualifications

• Experience supporting large‑scale Windows and Linux server environments.
• ITIL 5 Foundation Certification.
• Experience with storage migrations using native and third‑party tools.
• Knowledge of backup platforms such as Commvault, Veeam, NetBackup, or similar.
• Familiarity with automation tools such as Ansible or PowerCLI.
• Experience in regulated, highly available, or mission‑critical environments.
• Prior work within the Department of War and familiarity with its IT environments.

Clearance

Current Top Secret/SCI clearance required at the time of consideration.

Pay Range

$92,300.00 – $166,850.00 (general guideline only; not a guarantee of compensation).

Pay and Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Health and Wellness programs
• Income Protection
• Paid Leave
• Retirement

About Leidos

Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovations. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with 47,000 global employees, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $16.7 billion for the fiscal year ended January 3, 2025. For more information, visit www.leidos.com.