Data Storage Engineer

Leidos; United States; On-site; USD 107,900 - 195,050; Full time

Job summary

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 to optimize enterprise storage infrastructure.

Located in Bethesda, the engineer will focus on lifecycle processes and ensure high availability and performance of storage systems. Candidates should have extensive experience in managing enterprise data storage systems and a Bachelor's degree.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience managing and administering Veritas Rubrik.
• Experience with scripting technologies such as PowerShell.
• Working knowledge of Unix or Linux based operating systems.

Responsibilities

• Design and engineer scalable enterprise storage architectures.
• Install, configure, and administer enterprise storage systems.
• Develop and implement disaster recovery and continuity of operations plans.

Skills

Storage system architecture

Agile methodologies

Linux administration

Scripting (PowerShell)

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Veritas Rubrik

Dell Storage Center

Cisco Brocade

VMware ESX

Job description

Data Storage Engineer

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 engineer will optimize enterprise storage infrastructure for availability, performance, and capacity, participate in lifecycle processes of purchasing, installing, maintaining, and replacing storage devices across on‑premise and cloud environments, collect and evaluate metrics to optimize storage operations, and develop and maintain system documentation and procedures in accordance with customer requirements. The Customer utilizes an Agile Framework to plan and successfully complete all initiatives.

Work location: Bethesda at the Intelligence Community Campus.

Full Life Cycle Engineering Duties and Primary Tasks

Systems Engineering / Architecture / Lifecycle Design

• Design and engineer scalable enterprise storage architectures supporting performance, resiliency, high availability, and mission growth requirements across on‑premise and cloud environments.
• Develop logical and physical storage architectures, reference designs, and engineering roadmaps aligned to customer mission requirements and future capacity demands.
• Perform systems design and engineering analysis for storage modernization initiatives, including solution trade studies, technology evaluations, and engineering recommendations.
• Engineer lifecycle replacement strategies for enterprise storage infrastructure, balancing risk, obsolescence, cost, and operational continuity.
• Develop and maintain engineering artifacts including architecture diagrams, low‑level designs, interface documentation, data flow mappings, and implementation plans.
• Apply systems engineering principles to storage integration, interoperability, performance optimization, and infrastructure resilience.
• Perform engineering analysis of system dependencies, failure modes, and technical risks; develop mitigation strategies to improve reliability and supportability.

Advanced Engineering / Design Responsibilities

• Engineer and optimize storage solutions for multi‑petabyte environments supporting virtualization, GPU/compute‑intensive workloads, and mission‑critical applications.
• Provide engineering support for performance modeling, capacity forecasting, and lifecycle planning using operational metrics and trend analysis.
• Contribute to disaster recovery architecture, data protection engineering, and continuity solution design for enterprise storage services.
• Experience with systems engineering lifecycle methodologies, including requirements development, systems design, architecture, integration, testing, sustainment, and lifecycle refresh.

Job Responsibilities

• Demonstrated knowledge of storage systems architecture, lifecycle engineering, and infrastructure modernization principles.
• Familiarity with model‑based or traditional systems engineering disciplines, architecture frameworks, and engineering documentation practices preferred.
• Install, configure, and administer enterprise storage systems from multiple vendors including Dell EMC and Quantum.
• Install, configure, and administer Rubrik server and client software; schedule and monitor backup policies; generate backup status reports as required.
• Administer Cisco Brocade fiber channel switch fabrics; configure single initiator zone sets and monitor 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 in accordance with customer requirements.
• Install, configure, maintain, and administer Linux and Windows servers in support of storage operations such as Rubrik, Media, DSM, and Master servers.
• Build capacity management dashboards that improve visibility into enterprise storage use, health, resilience, and provide ongoing resources for planning for enterprise infrastructure lifecycle replacement.
• Configure Rubrik policies; troubleshoot and resolve backup job failures.
• Coordinate with vCenter administrators to provision Storage Area Network resources to VMWare ESX cluster datastores as required.
• Configure and manage volume snapshots; 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 to deconflict and schedule hardware maintenance activities, system and firmware updates, and other 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; develop automated solutions that leverage 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.
• Work independently with minimal supervision.
• Mentor junior team members.

Basic Qualifications

• 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 the following services and technologies:
• SAN administration including provisioning of LUNs, managing fibre channel zoning, and mapping storage to servers.
• NAS administration including 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.
• Storage monitoring and performance tuning.
• Understanding of Cloud storage management.

Education

• Bachelor's degree with 8 years of relevant experience, Master's degree with 6 years, or education equivalency of Associate's with 12 years of related experience or High School Diploma with 14 years of related experience can be used in lieu of Bachelor's degree.

Clearance Requirement

• Due to the nature of the government contracts we support, US Citizenship is required.
• TS/SCI with Poly required for Position or TS/SCI and willingness to obtain a poly.

Preferred Qualifications

• 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.

Pay and Benefits

Pay Range: $107,900.00 - $195,050.00.

Commitment to Non-Discrimination

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, family structure, marital status, ancestry, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law. Leidos will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with relevant laws.