Senior Storage Engineer

Description

Leidos is seeking an experienced Senior Storage Engineer to design, implement, administer, and optimize enterprise storage platforms in Fort Belvoir, VA
. This role is responsible for ensuring storage availability, performance, scalability, security, and operational resilience across production and non-production systems. 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.

Candidates must demonstrate a high degree of problem-solving ability in a complex environment and be able to communicate effectively, both to the customer and to team members.

Clearance:
Current Top Secret/SCI clearance at time of consideration

We are seeking a highly skilled Storage Engineer with demonstrated experience in designing, deploying, and managing enterprise storage environments.

• Lead engineering, administration, and support of enterprise storage environments with primary focus on Net App 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 optimizestorageenvironments, including aggregates, volumes, SVMs, snapshots, replication, quotas, tiering, and protocol configuration.
• Administer Net App , Dell EMC, Hitachi storage arrays, including pools, LUNs, file systems, NAS servers, snapshots, replication, FAST VP/tiering, and host connectivity.
• Support SAN and NASinfrastructure, including
  
  Fibre Channel,iSCSI,NFS, andSMB/CIFSprotocols.
• 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.
• Troubleshoot storage, replication, latency, pathing, and connectivity issues across hosts, hypervisors, and network fabrics.
• 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.
• Provide mentorship and guidance to junior administrators and team members to foster a deeper understanding of storage technologies.
• Develop and maintain documentation related to storage architecture, processes, and procedures.
• Evaluate and recommend emerging storage solutions to continuously optimize system performance and efficiency.
• Support projects to enhance the security, efficiency, or capability of the storage environment.
• Work with vendors and third‑party providers for troubleshooting and issue resolution.

• Bachelor’s degree with 8 – 12 years of prior relevant experience or master’s degree with 6 – 10 years of prior relevant experience. Additional technical experience may be considered in lieu of degree.
• Current Top Secret/SCI clearance at time of consideration.
• Candidate must, at a minimum, meet DoD 8570.11- IAT Level II certification requirements (currently Security+ CE, CCNA-Security, GSEC, or SSCP) at time of consideration.
• Advanced knowledge of storage systems architecture, lifecycle engineering, and infrastructure modernization principles.
• Demonstrated experience with Net App, Dell EMC, Hitachi, VMware vSAN and other storage technologies.
• Strong working knowledge of enterprise computing environments (physical, virtual, hybrid) and server virtualization platforms (e.g., VMware).
• Working knowledge of virtualization such as VMware vSphere and backup technologies…