Senior Storage Engineer — NetApp & Dell EMC (SCI)

Leidos

Fort Belvoir (VA)

On-site

USD 92,000 - 167,000

Full time

4 days ago
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Job summary

Leidos is seeking a Senior Storage Engineer to design, implement, and optimize enterprise storage across Fort Belvoir, VA. You will ensure storage availability, performance, security, and resilience for production and non-production environments, with deep hands-on expertise in SAN/NAS, data protection, and lifecycle management.

This role requires collaboration with cross‑functional teams, adherence to DISA STIGs and DoD security requirements, and mentoring of junior staff.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree with 8–12 years of relevant experience or master’s with 6–10 years of relevant experience.
  • Current Top Secret/SCI clearance.
  • DoD 8570.11-IAT Level II certifications (Security+ CE, CCNA-Security, GSEC, or SSCP).
  • Advanced knowledge of storage systems architecture, lifecycle engineering, and modernization.
  • Experience with NetApp, Dell EMC, Hitachi, VMware vSAN and related storage technologies.

Responsibilities

  • 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.
  • 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 Fibre Channel, iSCSI, NFS, and SMB/CIFS protocols.
  • Ensure system compliance with DISA STIG and DoD security requirements by leading hardening efforts.
  • Monitor storage health, capacity, utilization, and performance; identify trends and 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 to junior administrators and develop storage documentation and runbooks.
  • Evaluate emerging storage solutions to optimize performance and efficiency.

Skills

Storage engineering
SAN/NAS administration
NetApp and Dell Unity
VMware vSphere / vSAN
Data protection & DR
Security+ / DoD compliance

Education

Bachelor’s degree with 8–12 years
Master’s degree with 6–10 years

Tools

NetApp
Dell EMC
Hitachi Storage
VMware vSAN
NetBackup
Commvault
Veeam

Job description

Leidos is seeking a Senior Storage Engineer to design, implement, and optimize enterprise storage across Fort Belvoir, VA. You will ensure storage availability, performance, security, and resilience for production and non-production environments, with deep hands-on expertise in SAN/NAS, data protection, and lifecycle management.

This role requires collaboration with cross‑functional teams, adherence to DISA STIGs and DoD security requirements, and mentoring of junior staff.

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