# Senior Storage Engineer

**Company**: Leidos
**Location**: Fort Belvoir, VA
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $92,300.00 - $166,850.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://leidos.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External/job/Fort-Belvoir-VA/Senior-Storage-Engineer_R-00194710?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_89c96a88-0fe

## Description

Leidos is seeking an experienced Senior Storage Engineer to design, implement, administer, and optimize enterprise storage platforms in Fort Belvoir, VA.

The ideal candidate brings deep hands-on expertise in storage architecture, SAN/NAS administration, data protection, performance tuning, lifecycle management, and cross-functional infrastructure support.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Serve as a subject-matter expert for 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, 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.

- 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.

- Develop and maintain documentation related to storage architecture, processes, and procedures.

**Required Qualifications:**

- Bachelor’s degree with 8 – 12 years of prior relevant experience or master’s degree with 6 – 10 years of prior relevant experience.

- Current Top Secret/SCI clearance at time of consideration.

- The candidate must, at a minimum, meet DoD 8140.03 / DoDI 8570.01-M IAT Level II certification requirements (e.g., Security+ CE, CCNA-Security, GSEC, or SSCP) at the time of consideration.

- Advanced knowledge of storage systems architecture, lifecycle engineering, and infrastructure modernization principles.

**Desired Qualifications:**

- Experience supporting large-scale Windows and Linux server environments.

- 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 for automation tasks.

- Prior work within the Department of Defense and familiarity with its IT environments.

**Pay Range:** $92,300.00 - $166,850.00

## Skills

### Required
- NetApp
- Dell Unity
- SAN/NAS administration
- data protection
- performance tuning
- lifecycle management

### Nice to have
- Windows
- Linux
- Commvault
- Veeam
- NetBackup
- Ansible
- PowerCLI

---

Source: [Apply at leidos.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com](https://leidos.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External/job/Fort-Belvoir-VA/Senior-Storage-Engineer_R-00194710?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)