Senior Storage Engineer

Leidos is seeking an experienced Senior Storage Engineer to 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:

• 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 SANand NAS infrastructure, including Fibre Channel, iSCSI, NFS, and SMB/CIFS protocols.
• 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 only and 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.