Storage Engineer - SME

Leidos

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Storage Engineer-SME provides senior technical leadership for enterprise storage services under the SEC Infrastructure Support Services (ISS) contract. This role architects, implements, and sustains highly available storage platforms supporting mission-critical SEC workloads across primary, alternate, and regional environments. The engineer drives performance optimization, capacity planning, and resilient backup and recovery strategies to meet recovery objectives, continuity requirements, and operational service levels. This position ensures storage operations align with organizational and federal compliance requirements and coordinates closely with EOC, infrastructure, network, and security teams.

Requirements

The ability to obtain and maintain SEC Public Trust (or higher if required).
This position is restricted to U.S. citizens only. Applicants must not hold dual citizenship with any other country to be eligible for work under this contract
Bachelors Degree and 8+ years of experience in enterprise storage architecture, design, and administration.
Expertise with SAN/NAS technologies, storage virtualization, and enterprise backup/recovery solutions.
Experience leading complex storage migrations, upgrades, and integration with cloud and on-premises environments.
Advanced expertise in storage performance tuning, capacity planning, risk assessment, and disaster recovery strategies.
Enterprise SAN/NAS platforms and storage virtualization
Enterprise backup/recovery, replication, and disaster recovery operations
Storage performance monitoring, tuning, and capacity management methodologies
Advanced troubleshooting of mission-critical storage issues and operational risk assessment
Cross-functional integration with infrastructure, network, and security teams

Nice To Haves

Industry certification such as NetApp, EMC, or equivalent is strongly preferred.
Hands-on experience with enterprise storage platforms and large-scale storage administration.
Experience developing and enforcing storage standards, policies, and operational best practices.
Experience supporting storage compliance, audit readiness, and documentation in federal IT environments.
Demonstrated technical leadership and mentorship of junior storage engineers.
NetApp, EMC, or equivalent industry certification.

Responsibilities

Design, implement, and maintain enterprise SAN/NAS and storage virtualization solutions for mission-critical systems.
Develop storage strategies, standards, and policies aligned with organizational and federal compliance requirements.
Lead complex storage projects, including migrations, upgrades, and integration with cloud and on-premises environments.
Ensure storage platforms are engineered for high availability, data integrity, and scalability across SEC environments.
May require participation in on-call or surge support activities depending on operational needs.
Administer and optimize large-scale enterprise storage environments, including proactive monitoring and health management.
Perform capacity planning and forecasting to maintain service continuity and prevent resource constraints.
Troubleshoot and resolve advanced storage incidents, including latency, throughput, replication, and platform stability issues.
Establish and track operational metrics and trend analysis to support service-level performance.
Architect and maintain enterprise backup and recovery strategies to protect mission-critical data.
Implement and validate disaster recovery and business continuity storage controls, including cross-site replication and recovery readiness.
Ensure retention, recovery, and data protection practices meet organizational policy and federal compliance requirements.
Support audit readiness by maintaining storage documentation, configuration baselines, and implementation evidence.
Lead storage workstreams for migrations, technology refreshes, and modernization efforts with minimal operational disruption.
Collaborate with infrastructure, network, security, virtualization, and cloud teams to integrate storage services end-to-end.
Conduct risk assessments and recommend remediation strategies for storage resiliency, security, and operational risk.
Mentor junior engineers and serve as the storage SME for incident response, strategic planning, and continuous improvement initiatives.