Data Storage Engineer

Leidos • Bethesda, MD

15h • Onsite

About The Position

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 primary responsibility is optimizing the configuration of the enterprise storage infrastructure to maximize availability, performance, and capacity. The role participates in the entire lifecycle of storage devices, from purchasing and installation to maintenance and replacement, across both on-premise and cloud environments. Key activities include collecting and evaluating metrics for storage operations optimization, identifying risks, performing assessments, and analyzing mitigation strategies. Additionally, the engineer will be responsible for developing and maintaining system documentation and procedures in accordance with customer requirements. The customer utilizes an Agile Framework for planning and executing initiatives. The work location is in Bethesda at the Intelligence Community Campus.

Requirements

• Extensive experience managing and administering Veritas Rubrik.
• Experience with scripting technologies such as PowerShell.
• Working knowledge of Unix or Linux based operating systems.
• Working knowledge of Distributed File System (DFS).
• Excellent communication skills.
• Ability to mentor junior team members.
• Ability to complete complex projects with minimal direction.
• Experience working independently to support a 24/7/365 customer environment.
• Experience contributing to deliverables and meeting performance metrics.
• Experience coordinating with senior management and customers.
• Candidate must, at a minimum, meet DoD 8570.11- IAT Level II certification requirements (currently Security+ CE, CCNA-Security, GSEC, or SSCP along with an appropriate computing environment (CE) certification).
• Extensive experience administering enterprise-level data storage systems (Dell Storage Center, Dell Compellent, and Data Domain preferred) with a demonstrated understanding of SAN administration (provisioning LUNs, managing fibre channel zoning, mapping storage), NAS administration (NFS and SMB file sharing), integration with VMWare ESX Server, data migration strategies, snapshots, volume replication, managing file and share permissions in an Active Directory environment, and storage monitoring and performance tuning.
• Understanding of Cloud storage management.
• US Citizenship is required.
• TS/SCI with Poly required for Position or TS/SCI and willingness to obtain a poly.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Disaster Recovery and COOP storage backup and recovery within and across the data centers and the Cloud.
• Ability to analyze cloud migration approaches to support customer decision making for effective and efficient cloud migrations.
• Experience managing Distributed File System (DFS) namespaces.

Responsibilities

• Install, configure, and administer enterprise storage systems from multiple vendors (e.g., Dell EMC, Quantum).
• Install, configure, and administer Rubrik server and client software, including scheduling and monitoring backup policies and generating backup status reports.
• Administer Cisco Brocade fibre channel switch fabrics, configuring single initiator zone sets and monitoring 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.
• Install, configure, maintain, and administer Linux and Windows servers supporting storage operations (Rubrik, Media, DSM, Master servers).
• Build capacity management dashboards to improve visibility into enterprise storage use, health, resilience, and provide resources for lifecycle replacement planning.
• Configure Rubrik policies and troubleshoot backup job failures.
• Coordinate with vCenter administrators to provision Storage Area Network (SAN) resources to VMWare ESX cluster datastores.
• Configure and manage volume snapshots and assist customers with point-in-time file restores.
• Schedule and monitor volume replication for disaster recovery.
• Monitor health and availability of infrastructure applications and systems.
• Work with vendors to troubleshoot and resolve hardware and software failures.
• Coordinate with Change Management for hardware maintenance, system/firmware updates, and configuration changes.
• Execute system changes during scheduled maintenance windows.
• Monitor and evaluate system performance and capacity trends.
• Resolve tier 2 and tier 3 service requests.
• Identify opportunities to automate operations and develop automated solutions using Dell and NetApp system APIs.
• Seek opportunities for continuous improvement to support effective and efficient operations.
• Work with Cloud Storage solutions as needed for Cloud applications.
• Mentor junior team members.

Benefits

• Leidos offers innovative solutions through its diverse and talented people.
• We empower our teams, contribute to our communities, and operate sustainably.
• Everything we do is built on a commitment to do the right thing for our customers, our people, and our community.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees