Data Storage Engineer

Leidos is seeking a Data Storage Engineer to support the National Digital Exploitation & OSINT Center (NDOC). This role requires technical expertise in storage engineering, system administration, and operations. The engineer optimizes the configuration of the enterprise storage infrastructure to maximize availability, performance, and capacity, and participates in the lifecycle process of purchasing, installing, maintaining, and replacing storage devices across on‑premise and cloud IT environments.

The engineer collects and evaluates metrics to optimize storage operations, identifies risks, performs assessments, and analyzes risk mitigation strategies, and develops and maintains system documentation and procedures in accordance with customer requirements. The customer utilizes an Agile Framework to plan and successfully complete all initiatives.

The work location is in Bethesda at the Intelligence Community Campus.

• Design and engineer scalable enterprise storage architectures supporting performance, resiliency, high availability, and mission growth requirements across on‑premise and cloud environments.
• Develop logical and physical storage architectures, reference designs, and engineering roadmaps aligned to customer mission requirements and future capacity demands.
• Perform system design and engineering analysis for storage modernization initiatives, including solution trade studies, technology evaluations, and engineering recommendations.
• Engineer lifecycle replacement strategies for enterprise storage infrastructure, balancing risk, obsolescence, cost, and operational continuity.
• Develop and maintain engineering artifacts including architecture diagrams, low‑level designs, interface documentation, data flow mappings, and implementation plans.
• Apply systems engineering principles to storage integration, interoperability, performance optimization, and infrastructure resilience.
• Perform engineering analysis of system dependencies, failure modes, and technical risks; develop mitigation strategies to improve reliability and supportability.

• Engineer and optimize storage solutions for multi‑petabyte environments supporting virtualization, GPU/compute‑intensive workloads, and mission‑critical applications.
• Provide engineering support for performance modeling, capacity forecasting, and lifecycle planning using operational metrics and trend analysis.
• Contribute to disaster recovery architecture, data protection engineering, and continuity solution design for enterprise storage services.
• Experience with systems engineering lifecycle methodologies, including requirements development, systems design, architecture, integration, testing, sustainment, and lifecycle refresh.

• Demonstrated knowledge of storage systems architecture, lifecycle engineering, and infrastructure modernization principles.
• Familiarity with model‑based or traditional systems engineering disciplines, architecture frameworks, and engineering documentation practices preferred.
• Install, configure, and administer enterprise storage systems from multiple vendors to include, but not limited to, Dell EMC and Quantum.
• Install, configure, and administer Rubrik server and client software. Schedule and monitor backup policies. Generate backup status reports as required.
• Administer Cisco Brocade fiber channel switch fabrics. Configure single initiator zone sets and monitor switch utilization and performance.
• Create and secure SMB file shares.
• Coordinate with server administrators to create, secure, and mount NFS exports.
• Develop and implement Disaster Recovery and Continuity of Operations plans in accordance with customer requirements.
• Install, configure, maintain, and administer Linux and Windows servers in support of storage operations such as Rubrik, Media, DSM and Master servers.
• Build capacity management dashboards that improve visibility into enterprise storage use, health, resilience, and provide ongoing resources for planning for enterprise infrastructure lifecycle replacement.
• Configure Rubrik policies. Troubleshoot and resolve backup…