# Storage Engineer – Enterprise Data Center & Cloud Services

**Company**: GDIT
**Location**: Washington, DC
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $140,821 - $190,523
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

GDIT is seeking a Storage Engineer for the Federal Civilian Division to join our outstanding team! You will support a large-scale, global Cloud and Data Center Services program for the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Diplomatic Technology (DT).

**Storage Engineer Responsibilities**

- Engineer, administer, and optimize enterprise storage platforms across hybrid data center environments, with NetApp ONTAP systems, SAN/NAS architecture, data protection, and storage virtualization.

- Provide operational support, storage lifecycle management, modernization, platform engineering, and cross-domain integration to ensure high availability, performance, and mission readiness for DT workloads.

- Develop and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and automation for storage provisioning and configuration using tools such as Ansible, PowerShell, and REST APIs.

- Participate in engineering of Platform Services including Converged/Cloud Infrastructure, Data Protection, Monitoring, and Security Infrastructure.

**Storage Operations & Service Delivery**

- Support 24x7x365 storage operations in coordination with Enterprise Operations and Site Operations teams, participating in ITIL-aligned incident, problem, and change management.

- Monitor capacity, performance, replication health, data protection, and storage resiliency across large-scale NetApp ONTAP environments.

- Assist with migration projects, storage lifecycle refresh, cluster expansions, and re-platforming initiatives across DT enterprise sites.

**Data Protection, Availability & Business Continuity**

- Implement storage security best practices including RBAC, encryption, export controls, secure replication, logging, and auditing.

- Ensure compliance with FedRAMP, NIST RMF, FISMA, and DT security directives.

- Support vulnerability remediation, configuration hardening, and continuous monitoring activities.

**Monitoring, Observability & Reporting**

- Work with monitoring platforms to track storage performance, latency, capacity usage, replication status, trends, and forecasting.

- Provide reports and analytical insights to DT leadership, including storage health dashboards, SLA metrics, and lifecycle planning data.

- Integrate storage telemetry with enterprise monitoring, observability, and CMDB systems.

**Stakeholder Engagement & Collaboration**

- Collaborate with engineers across compute, virtualization, networking, cloud, data protection, cybersecurity, and operations to support integrated platform delivery.

- Prepare engineering documentation, runbooks, design diagrams, and knowledge-transfer materials for Government FTEs and support partners.

**Requirements**

- Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline required (master’s preferred).

- 8+ years relevant experience supporting enterprise IT systems, cloud services engineering, or hybrid cloud environments.

- NetApp Certified Data Administrator – ONTAP (NCDA) or NetApp Certified Implementation Engineer – ONTAP (NCIE) and VMware Certified Professional – Data Center Virtualization (VCP-DCV) or VMware storage-focused certification (e.g., vSAN Specialist).

- Expertise in NetApp ONTAP cluster operations, SAN/NAS administration, replication technologies, SnapMirror/SnapVault, and performance troubleshooting.

- Strong background in VMware storage integration (VMFS, NFS, vVols, datastore capacity planning, multipath optimization).

- Proficiency in automation and scripting (PowerShell, Python, REST API, Ansible).

- Familiarity with converged/hyperconverged platforms, storage networking (Fibre Channel/iSCSI), and enterprise monitoring systems.

- Understanding of STIGs, SRGs, FedRAMP requirements, and federal cybersecurity frameworks.

- Active Top Secret level clearance.

## Skills

### Required
- Automation Scripting
- Converged Networking
- NetApp ONTAP
- Storage Performance
- Storage Virtualization
- Ansible
- PowerShell
- REST APIs
- Python

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