NetApp Storage Engineer – TS/SCI, On-Prem & Cloud

Koitecc Solutions; Suitland (MD); On-site; USD 87,000 - 157,000; Full time

Job summary

Leidos is seeking an Enterprise Storage Engineer to join our team in Suitland, MD, supporting the Hopper Global Communications Center. You will design, deploy, and manage NetApp enterprise storage environments across on‑premise and cloud, optimize performance, and implement security and disaster recovery.

This role offers exposure to cross‑functional teams, leadership of storage lifecycle activities, and opportunities matched to experience across multiple locations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in IT field with 6+ or 8+ years of relevant experience.
• Active TS/SCI security clearance.
• Experience as a NetApp Enterprise Storage Engineer.
• Experience managing enterprise storage solutions for applications, cloud, and on‑premise file storage.
• Expert knowledge of NetApp Data ONTAP and ONTAP System Manager.
• Proficient working knowledge of network technologies and protocols.
• Strong understanding of storage systems, RAID, SAN, NAS, backup solutions, and data storage optimization, with expertise in backup and disaster recovery solutions.
• Experience working in virtual environments.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, configure, and administer NetApp enterprise storage environments.
• Manage storage provisioning, capacity, performance, availability, and lifecycle activities across production and nonproduction environments.
• Monitor storage health, utilization, and performance, perform proactive capacity planning, and resolve performance bottlenecks.
• Troubleshoot complex storage incidents involving NetApp systems, hosts, networks, Fibre Channel fabrics, and application dependencies.
• Perform upgrades, firmware updates, patching, hardware refreshes, and storage migrations while minimizing service disruption.
• Configure and maintain Storage Virtual Machines (SVMs), volumes, aggregates, LUNs, qtrees, quotas, export policies, and related storage services.
• Implement storage security and access controls consistent with organizational and cybersecurity requirements.
• Support high availability, business continuity, and disaster recovery testing, including validation of recovery procedures.
• Analyze storage trends and recommend architecture, capacity, performance, and cost optimization improvements.
• Maintain system documentation, diagrams, configuration standards, operating procedures, and troubleshooting guides.
• Coordinate with server, virtualization, network, database, backup, cybersecurity, and application teams to support infrastructure requirements.
• Provide technical support for escalated incidents and participate in root cause analysis and problem management.
• Work with NetApp and other vendors to troubleshoot hardware and software issues and coordinate replacements or engineering support.
• Ensure storage platforms comply with applicable configuration, change management, security, and operational standards.
• Participate in maintenance activities and provide on call or after hours support when required.
• Travel may be required to multiple locations.

Skills

NetApp storage engineering

ONTAP System Manager

Networking knowledge

Storage systems & DR

Virtualization

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT/related field

Tools

NetApp ONTAP

ONTAP System Manager

Job description

Leidos is seeking an Enterprise Storage Engineer to join our team in Suitland, MD, supporting the Hopper Global Communications Center. You will design, deploy, and manage NetApp enterprise storage environments across on‑premise and cloud, optimize performance, and implement security and disaster recovery.

This role offers exposure to cross‑functional teams, leadership of storage lifecycle activities, and opportunities matched to experience across multiple locations.