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.