Storage Operations Lead — Hybrid IT Leader, Data Protection

gdit; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 123,000 - 167,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) match

Career growth

Job summary

GDIT is seeking a Storage Operations Lead to support the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in Austin, TX. You will oversee enterprise storage operations, ensuring availability, backup integrity, DR readiness, security compliance, and capacity optimization across a multi‑petabyte environment.

You will lead governance for SAN/NAS, replication, and data protection, working with storage engineers, cybersecurity, and VA stakeholders to improve reliability, resiliency, and compliance across all

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent and 5 years of experience.
• Experience leading storage operations, data protection, backup/recovery workflows, or infrastructure compliance in enterprise IT environments.
• Demonstrated expertise with enterprise storage platforms, SAN/NAS infrastructure, data protection systems, and disaster recovery processes.
• Strong understanding of ITSM, service delivery, hosting operations, and enterprise‑class process governance.
• Ability to evaluate storage documentation, workflows, performance metrics, and system outputs for completeness, accuracy, and compliance.
• Experience developing performance plans, audit artifacts, dashboards, and corrective‑action processes.
• Excellent written, analytical, and stakeholder communication skills.
• Ability to collaborate across storage engineering, hosting, cybersecurity, and federal organizations

Responsibilities

• Oversee enterprise storage operations—ensuring availability, backup integrity, disaster recovery readiness, security compliance, and optimized capacity across VA’s multi‑petabyte storage environment.
• Lead governance and performance oversight for SAN/NAS platforms, storage clusters, replication, Commvault data protection, and related metrics.
• Coordinate with storage engineers, data protection teams, cybersecurity staff, hosting leaders, and VA stakeholders to improve reliability, resiliency, and compliance.
• Manage performance measurement processes, sequence backup/restore and replication tests, and maintain dashboards, logs, and reporting packages.
• Refine operational workflows, reduce backup failures, strengthen documentation, and embed performance and security requirements across the storage lifecycle.
• Coordinate across hosting, database, and virtualization teams to ensure aligned operations.

Skills

Accountability

Leadership

Security Compliance

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Job description

GDIT is seeking a Storage Operations Lead to support the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in Austin, TX. You will oversee enterprise storage operations, ensuring availability, backup integrity, DR readiness, security compliance, and capacity optimization across a multi‑petabyte environment.

You will lead governance for SAN/NAS, replication, and data protection, working with storage engineers, cybersecurity, and VA stakeholders to improve reliability, resiliency, and compliance across all