Senior Storage Engineer

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

Job summary

Leidos is seeking a Senior Storage Engineer to design, implement, administer, and optimize enterprise storage platforms at Fort Belvoir, VA. The role emphasizes NetApp and Dell Unity environments, high availability, and performance tuning for file, block, and hybrid workloads.

Applicants should have DoD 8140.03/IAT II-level certifications, an active Top Secret/SCI clearance, and strong experience with SAN/NAS, replication, and DR capabilities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with 8–12 years of prior relevant experience or master’s degree with 6–10 years of prior relevant experience.
• Current Top Secret/SCI clearance at time of consideration.
• DoD 8140.03 / DoDI 8570.01-M IAT Level II certification requirements (e.g., Security+ CE, CCNA‑Security, GSEC, or SSCP) at the time of consideration.
• Advanced knowledge of storage systems architecture, lifecycle engineering, and infrastructure modernization principles.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a subject‑matter expert for 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 optimize storage environments, including aggregates, volumes, SVMs, snapshots, replication, quotas, tiering, and protocol configuration.
• Administer NetApp, Dell EMC, Hitachi storage arrays, including pools, LUNs, file systems, NAS servers, snapshots, replication, FAST VP/tiering, and host connectivity.
• Support SAN and NAS infrastructure, including FibreChannel, iSCSI, NFS, and SMB/CIFS protocols.
• Monitor storage health, capacity, utilization, and performance; identify trends and recommend remediation or expansion strategies.
• 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.
• Develop and maintain documentation related to storage architecture, processes, and procedures.

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Master’s degree

Tools

NetApp

Dell Unity

Hitachi storage

Fibre Channel

iSCSI

NFS

SMB/CIFS

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.

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:

• Serve as a subject‑matter expert for 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 andoptimizestorageenvironments,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.
• SupportSANandNASinfrastructure,includingFibreChannel,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.
• 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.
• Develop and maintain documentation related to storage architecture, processes, and procedures.

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.
• The candidate must, at a minimum, meet DoD 8140.03 / DoDI 8570.01-M IAT Level II certification requirements (e.g., Security+ CE, CCNA‑Security, GSEC, or SSCP) at the time of consideration.
• Advanced knowledge of storage systems architecture, lifecycle engineering, and infrastructure modernization principles.

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience supporting large‑scale Windows and Linux server environments.
• 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.
• Prior work within the Department of Defense and familiarity with its IT environments.

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Original Posting:

October 15, 2026

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.

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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.