Senior Storage Engineer — TS/SCI + Poly, Onsite

gdit; Herndon (VA); On-site; USD 153,000 - 207,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401K with company match

Health and wellness packages

Internal mobility team

Paid education and certifications

Paid vacation and holidays

Job summary

GDIT is seeking a Storage Engineer in Herndon, VA to ensure the safety and security of national assets. You will join a team deploying systems and capabilities around our motion imagery software suite to deliver actionable intelligence for the Intelligence Community.

The role involves analyzing requirements, designing solutions, testing, and implementing next‑gen storage and backup systems. Non‑stop learning and collaboration with cloud providers and vendors are key aspects of this position.

Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI with Polygraph required.
• Ten (10+) years of related systems engineering experience.
• Bachelor’s or Technology degree in Engineering or related field, or 14+ years of IT experience in lieu of a degree.
• Expertise with enterprise storage and backup platforms and hyper‑converged solutions.
• Full lifecycle SAN administration experience including capacity planning.
• Experience with VMware and virtualized environments.
• Proficiency in Windows and Red Hat administration.
• Familiarity with cloud storage solutions (AWS, Azure, Oracle).
• Location: At Customer Site – Herndon area.

Responsibilities

• Participating in requirement analysis, solution design, testing, and implementation of storage and backup systems.
• Collaborating with customers, storage vendors, and cloud providers to evaluate storage technologies.
• Developing and maintaining the storage demonstration environment in the test lab.
• Develop and execute test plans for storage and backup solutions.
• Performing root cause analysis for major issues and recommend improvements.
• Providing storage upgrade recommendations and supporting system integration.
• Providing Tier 3/4 support to storage and backup platforms.
• Conducting system security engineering with a Storage/SAN focus.
• Installing, monitoring, and optimizing storage solutions.

Skills

Storage Management

System Safety Engineering

Systems Management

Education

Bachelor’s or Technology degree in Engineering or related field

14+ years of IT experience in lieu of degree

Tools

NetApp

Dell/EMC

Pure Storage

Cohesity

Rubrik

NetBackup

VxRail

Nutanix

Job description

GDIT is seeking a Storage Engineer in Herndon, VA to ensure the safety and security of national assets. You will join a team deploying systems and capabilities around our motion imagery software suite to deliver actionable intelligence for the Intelligence Community.

The role involves analyzing requirements, designing solutions, testing, and implementing next‑gen storage and backup systems. Non‑stop learning and collaboration with cloud providers and vendors are key aspects of this position.