Storage Engineer – Enterprise Data Center & Cloud Services
About The Position
GDIT is seeking a Storage Engineer for its Federal Civilian Division to support a large-scale, global Cloud and Data Center Services program for the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Diplomatic Technology. The role engineers, administers, and optimizes enterprise storage platforms across hybrid data center environments, including NetApp ONTAP systems, SAN/NAS architecture, data protection, and storage virtualization. The work covers operational support, storage lifecycle management, modernization, platform engineering, and cross-domain integration to ensure high availability, performance, and mission readiness. The engineer will support geographically dispersed data centers and mission-critical workloads, VMware storage integrations, infrastructure automation, and platform services. The position also supports 24x7x365 storage operations, ITIL-aligned service management, migration and refresh initiatives, security and compliance, monitoring and reporting, and collaboration with technical teams and Government stakeholders. This is a contingent position expected to start in Spring of 2027. The role is hybrid within the National Capital Region, with periodic travel to customer and data center sites. Less than 10% travel is required. An active Top Secret clearance and U.S. citizenship are required.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- At least 8 years of relevant experience supporting enterprise IT systems, cloud services engineering, or hybrid cloud environments.
- Active Top Secret security clearance.
- U.S. citizenship.
- Expertise in NetApp ONTAP cluster operations, SAN/NAS administration, replication technologies, SnapMirror/SnapVault, and performance troubleshooting.
- Strong background in VMware storage integration, including VMFS, NFS, vVols, datastore capacity planning, and multipath optimization.
- Proficiency in automation and scripting, including PowerShell, Python, REST APIs, and Ansible.
- Familiarity with converged/hyperconverged platforms, Fibre Channel/iSCSI storage networking, and enterprise monitoring systems.
- Understanding of STIGs, SRGs, FedRAMP requirements, and federal cybersecurity frameworks.
- NetApp Certified Data Administrator – ONTAP (NCDA) or NetApp Certified Implementation Engineer – ONTAP (NCIE) certification.
- VMware Certified Professional – Data Center Virtualization (VCP-DCV) or a VMware storage-focused certification, such as vSAN Specialist.
Nice To Haves
- Master’s degree in a related technical discipline.
Responsibilities
- Engineer, deploy, configure, and support NetApp ONTAP storage systems, including clusters, volumes, LIFs, SnapMirror/SnapVault, export policies, and performance tuning.
- Administer SAN/NAS environments supporting mission-critical workloads across geographically dispersed data centers.
- Support VMware storage integrations, including vSphere datastore provisioning, VMFS/NFS storage design, storage multipathing, vVols, and performance troubleshooting.
- Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code and storage automation using tools such as Ansible, PowerShell, and REST APIs.
- Participate in engineering platform services, including converged/cloud infrastructure, data protection, monitoring, and security infrastructure.
- Support 24x7x365 storage operations in coordination with Enterprise Operations and Site Operations teams, participating in ITIL-aligned incident, problem, and change management.
- Monitor capacity, performance, replication health, data protection, and storage resiliency across NetApp ONTAP environments.
- Assist with migration projects, storage lifecycle refresh, cluster expansions, and re-platforming across enterprise sites.
- Manage storage allocation, right-sizing, and resource lifecycles to support availability and demand growth.
- Implement storage security best practices, including RBAC, encryption, export controls, secure replication, logging, and auditing.
- Ensure compliance with FedRAMP, NIST RMF, FISMA, and DT security directives; support vulnerability remediation, configuration hardening, and continuous monitoring.
- Use monitoring platforms to track storage performance, latency, capacity, replication status, trends, and forecasting.
- Provide reports and analytical insights to DT leadership, including storage health dashboards, SLA metrics, and lifecycle planning data.
- Integrate storage telemetry with enterprise monitoring, observability, and CMDB systems.
- Collaborate with compute, virtualization, networking, cloud, data protection, cybersecurity, and operations engineers to support integrated platform delivery.
- Prepare engineering documentation, runbooks, design diagrams, and knowledge-transfer materials for Government FTEs and support partners.
- Support special projects, modernization pilots, and new storage service development.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages.
- 401(k) with company match.
- Competitive pay and paid time off.
- Full-flex work weeks where possible.
- Medical plan options, including options with Health Savings Accounts.
- Dental and vision plan options.
- Paid vacation, sick, personal, holiday, parental, military, bereavement, and jury duty leave.
- Short- and long-term disability benefits.
- Life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness, and business travel and accident insurance.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
