Senior Storage Engineer

Leidos Inc; Fort Belvoir (VA); On-site; USD 92,000 - 167,000; Full time

Job summary

Leidos is seeking a Senior Storage Engineer to design, implement, and optimize enterprise storage platforms at Fort Belvoir, VA. You will lead storage engineering for NetApp, Dell Unity, and Hitachi arrays, ensuring high availability, performance, and security for file, block, and hybrid workloads.

The role requires hands-on expertise in provisioning, migrations, capacity planning, and DR capabilities, with DISA STIG and DoD security compliance guidance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with 8–12 years of relevant storage experience or Master’s with 6–10 years.
• Current Top Secret/SCI clearance at time of consideration.
• IAT Level II certification requirements (Security+ CE, CCNA-Security, GSEC, or SSCP) at time of consideration.
• Advanced knowledge of storage systems architecture, lifecycle engineering, and infrastructure modernization.

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering, administration, and support of enterprise storage environments focusing on NetApp and Dell Unity platforms.
• Design and maintain highly available, scalable storage solutions for file, block, and hybrid workloads.
• Perform provisioning, configuration, upgrades, migrations, and decommissioning of storage systems.
• Manage and optimize storage environments, including pools, LUNs, file systems, snapshots, replication, and tiering.
• Administer NetApp, Dell EMC, Hitachi storage arrays, including pools, LUNs, NAS, snapshots, replication, and host connectivity.
• Support SAN and NAS infrastructure with Fibre Channel, iSCSI, NFS, and SMB/CIFS protocols.
• Ensure DISA STIG and DoD security compliance and lead hardening efforts.

Skills

NetApp

Dell EMC

Hitachi storage

VMware vSAN

SAN

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Tools

NetBackup

Commvault

Veeam

VMware vSphere

Job description

Description

Leidos is seeking an experienced Senior Storage Engineerto design, implement, administer, and optimize enterprise storage platforms in Fort Belvoir, VA. This role is responsible for ensuring storage availability, performance, scalability, security, and operational resilience across production and non-production systems. The ideal candidate brings deep hands-on expertise in storage architecture, SAN/NAS administration, data protection, performance tuning, lifecycle management, and cross-functional infrastructure support.

Candidates must demonstrate a high degree of problem-solving ability in a complex environment and be able to communicate effectively, both to the customer and to team members.

Clearance: Current Top Secret/SCI clearance at time of consideration

Key Responsibilities

We are seeking a highly skilled Storage Engineer with demonstrated experience in designing, deploying, and managing enterprise storage environments.

Candidate will be responsible for:

• Lead engineering, administration, and support of enterprise storage environments with primary focus on NetApp and Dell Unity platforms.
• Design and maintain highly available, scalable storage solutions for file, block, and hybrid workloads.
• Perform provisioning, configuration, upgrades, migrations, and decommissioning of storage systems.
• Manage and optimizestorageenvironments, including aggregates, volumes, SVMs, snapshots, replication, quotas, tiering, and protocol configuration.
• AdministerNetApp, Dell EMC, Hitachistorage arrays, including pools, LUNs, file systems, NAS servers, snapshots, replication, FAST VP/tiering, and host connectivity.
• SupportSAN and NASinfrastructure, includingFibre Channel,iSCSI,NFS, andSMB/CIFSprotocols.
• Ensure system compliance with DISA STIG and DoD security requirements by leading critical hardening efforts.
• Monitor storage health, capacity, utilization, and performance; identify trends and recommend remediation or expansion strategies.
• Troubleshoot storage, replication, latency, pathing, and connectivity issues across hosts, hypervisors, and network fabrics.
• Plan and execute data migration efforts 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.
• Provide mentorship and guidance to junior administrators and team members to foster a deeper understanding of storage technologies.
• Develop and maintain documentation related to storage architecture, processes, and procedures.
• Evaluate and recommend emerging storage solutions to continuously optimize system performance and efficiency.
• Support projects to enhance the security, efficiency, or capability of the storage environment.
• Work with vendors and third-party providers for troubleshooting and issue resolution.

Required Qualifications

• 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 degree.
• Current Top Secret/SCI clearance at time of consideration.
• Candidate must, at a minimum, meet DoD 8570.11- IAT Level II certification requirements (currently Security+ CE, CCNA-Security, GSEC, or SSCP) at time of consideration.
• Advanced knowledge of storage systems architecture, lifecycle engineering, and infrastructure modernization principles.
• Demonstrated experience with NetApp, Dell EMC, Hitachi, VMware vSAN and other storage technologies.
• Strong working knowledge of enterprise computing environments (physical, virtual, hybrid) and server virtualization platforms (e.g., VMware).
• Working knowledge of virtualization such as VMware vSphere and backup technologies such as NetBackup, Commvault and Veeam.
• Strong knowledge of SANs, Fibre Channel fabric, and storage technologies.
• Deep understanding of DISA STIGs, system hardening, and DoD security compliance frameworks.
• Develop storage standards, architecture documentation, operational procedures, and support runbooks.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across systems, virtualization, and storage layers.

Desired Qualifications

• Experience supporting large-scale Windows and Linux server environments.
• ITIL 5 Foundation Certification
• 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 for automation tasks.
• Experience in regulated, highly available, or mission-critical environments.
• Prior work within the Department of War and familiarity with its IT environments.

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Original Posting: September 24, 2026

For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range

Pay Range $92,300.00 - $166,850.00

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline onlyand not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

About Leidos

Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovations. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with 47,000 global employees, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $16.7 billion for the fiscal year ended January 3, 2025. For more information, visit www.Leidos.com.

Pay and Benefits

Pay and benefits are fundamental to any career decision. That's why we craft compensation packages that reflect the importance of the work we do for our customers. Employment benefits include competitive compensation, Health and Wellness programs, Income Protection, Paid Leave and Retirement. More details are available at www.leidos.com/careers/pay-benefits.

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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.