Senior Storage Engineer

Leidos

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Work type: On-site
Location: Fort Belvoir, VA
Salary: $92,300–$166,850 / yr
Employment: Full-time
Posted: 12 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live today
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovations.

Leidos currently has 426 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Senior Storage Engineer

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The Senior Storage Engineer joins the infrastructure team to design, implement, and optimize enterprise storage platforms. This role involves serving as a subject-matter expert for engineering and support, focusing on ensuring availability, performance, and security across production and non-production systems. Daily responsibilities include provisioning, configuring, and migrating storage systems, as well as managing aggregates, volumes, snapshots, and replication. The engineer will work with NetApp, Dell Unity, and Hitachi storage arrays using Fibre Channel, iSCSI, NFS, and SMB/CIFS protocols. Key tasks involve hardening systems for DISA STIG and DoD security requirements while managing data migrations and disaster recovery testing. The position requires expertise in storage architecture, lifecycle engineering, and infrastructure modernization within a complex Department of Defense IT environment.

Skills

NetApp Dell Unity Hitachi Storage SAN NAS Fibre Channel iSCSI NFS SMB/CIFS Linux Windows Ansible PowerCLI Commvault Veeam NetBackup DISA STIG Disaster Recovery

What you'll do

Design, deploy, and manage enterprise storage environments focusing on NetApp and Dell Unity platforms.
Perform provisioning, configuration, upgrades, migrations, and decommissioning of storage systems.
Manage aggregates, volumes, SVMs, snapshots, replication, quotas, and tiering for file and block workloads.
Administer SAN and NAS infrastructure using Fibre Channel, iSCSI, NFS, and SMB/CIFS protocols.
Ensure system compliance with DISA STIG and DoD security requirements through critical hardening efforts.
Monitor storage health, capacity, and performance to identify trends and recommend remediation strategies.
Execute data migrations between legacy and target storage platforms with minimal downtime.
Implement business continuity and disaster recovery capabilities including replication and failover testing.

What we're looking for

Bachelor’s degree with 8–12 years of relevant experience or a master’s degree with 6–10 years of relevant experience.
Current Top Secret/SCI clearance at time of consideration.
DoD 8140.03 / DoDI 8570.01-M IAT Level II certification (e.g., Security+ CE, CCNA-Security, GSEC, or SSCP).
Advanced knowledge of storage systems architecture, lifecycle engineering, and infrastructure modernization principles.
Experience administering NetApp, Dell EMC, and Hitachi storage arrays, including pools, LUNs, and file systems.
Experience supporting SAN and NAS infrastructure using Fibre Channel, iSCSI, NFS, and SMB/CIFS protocols.
Experience supporting large-scale Windows and Linux server environments (preferred).
Experience with storage migrations, backup platforms, or automation tools like Ansible or PowerCLI (preferred).

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