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.

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

Key Responsibilities:

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

Candidate will be responsible for:

• Serve as a subject‑matter expert for 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 andoptimizestorageenvironments,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.
• SupportSANandNASinfrastructure,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.
• 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.
• Develop and maintain documentation related to storage architecture, processes, and procedures.

Required Qualifications:

• 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.
• The candidate must, at a minimum, meet DoD 8140.03 / DoDI 8570.01-M IAT Level II certification requirements (e.g., Security+ CE, CCNA‑Security, GSEC, or SSCP) at the time of consideration.
• Advanced knowledge of storage systems architecture, lifecycle engineering, and infrastructure modernization principles.

Desired

Qualifications:

• Experience supporting large‑scale Windows and Linux server environments.
• Experience with storage migrations using native and third‑party tools.
• Knowledge of backup platforms such as Commvault, Veeam, Net Backup, or similar.
• Familiarity with automation tools such as Ansible or PowerCLI for automation tasks.
• Prior work within the Department of Defense and familiarity with its IT environments.

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October 15, 2026

Pay Range $92,300.00 - $

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