Senior Storage Engineer

Leidos•Fort Belvoir, VA

About The Position

Leidos is seeking an experienced Senior Storage Engineer to design, implement, administer, and optimize enterprise storage platforms in Fort Belvoir, Virginia. The role ensures storage availability, performance, scalability, security, and operational resilience across production and non-production systems. The engineer provides hands-on expertise in storage architecture, SAN/NAS administration, data protection, performance tuning, lifecycle management, and cross-functional infrastructure support, and must be able to solve problems in complex environments and communicate effectively with customers and team members. The position serves as a subject-matter expert for enterprise storage engineering, administration, and support, with a primary focus on NetApp and Dell Unity platforms. It also administers NetApp, Dell EMC, and Hitachi storage arrays and supports SAN and NAS infrastructure using Fibre Channel, iSCSI, NFS, and SMB/CIFS. The engineer designs highly available and scalable storage solutions, carries out system lifecycle work and migrations, supports business continuity and disaster recovery, leads storage hardening efforts to meet DISA STIG and DoD requirements, and maintains storage documentation. Candidates must hold a current Top Secret/SCI clearance at the time of consideration and meet DoD 8140.03 / DoDI 8570.01-M IAT Level II certification requirements. The stated pay range is $92,300 to $166,850. Leidos notes that this range is a general guideline and not a guarantee of compensation.

Requirements

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 a degree.
Current Top Secret/SCI clearance at the time of consideration.
At minimum, meet DoD 8140.03 / DoDI 8570.01-M IAT Level II certification requirements at the time of consideration, such as Security+ CE, CCNA-Security, GSEC, or SSCP.
Advanced knowledge of storage systems architecture, lifecycle engineering, and infrastructure modernization principles.
Demonstrated experience designing, deploying, and managing enterprise storage environments.
Ability to solve problems in a complex environment and communicate effectively with customers and team members.

Nice To Haves

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, NetBackup, or similar.
Familiarity with automation tools such as Ansible or PowerCLI.
Prior work within the Department of Defense and familiarity with its IT environments.

Responsibilities

Serve as a subject-matter expert for engineering, administration, and support of enterprise storage environments, primarily NetApp and Dell Unity platforms.
Design and maintain highly available, scalable storage solutions for file, block, and hybrid workloads.
Provision, configure, upgrade, migrate, and decommission storage systems.
Manage and optimize storage environments, including aggregates, volumes, SVMs, snapshots, replication, quotas, tiering, and protocol configuration.
Administer NetApp, Dell EMC, and Hitachi storage arrays, including pools, LUNs, file systems, NAS servers, snapshots, replication, FAST VP/tiering, and host connectivity.
Support SAN and NAS infrastructure, including Fibre Channel, iSCSI, NFS, and SMB/CIFS protocols.
Lead critical hardening efforts to ensure compliance with DISA STIG and DoD security requirements.
Monitor storage health, capacity, utilization, and performance; identify trends and recommend remediation or expansion strategies.
Plan and execute data migrations 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.