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