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:
- 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.
- 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 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.
- 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 and guidance to junior administrators and team members to foster a deeper understanding of storage technologies.
- Develop and maintain documentation related to storage architecture, processes, and procedures.
- Evaluate and recommend emerging storage solutions to continuously optimize system performance and efficiency.
- Support projects to enhance the security, efficiency, or capability of the storage environment.
- Work with vendors and third-party providers for troubleshooting and issue resolution.
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.
- Candidate must, at a minimum, meet DoD 8570.11- IAT Level II certification requirements (currently Security+ CE, CCNA-Security, GSEC, or SSCP) at time of consideration.
- Advanced knowledge of storage systems architecture, lifecycle engineering, and infrastructure modernization principles.
- Demonstrated experience with NetApp, Dell EMC, Hitachi, VMware vSAN and other storage technologies.
- Strong working knowledge of enterprise computing environments (physical, virtual, hybrid) and server virtualization platforms (e.g., VMware).
- Working knowledge of virtualization such as VMware vSphere and backup technologies such as NetBackup, Commvault and Veeam.
- Strong knowledge of SANs, Fibre Channel fabric, and storage technologies.
- Deep understanding of DISA STIGs, system hardening, and DoD security compliance frameworks.
- Develop storage standards, architecture documentation, operational procedures, and support runbooks.
- Strong troubleshooting skills across systems, virtualization, and storage layers.
Desired Qualifications:
- Experience supporting large-scale Windows and Linux server environments.
- ITIL 5 Foundation Certification
- 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.
- Experience in regulated, highly available, or mission-critical environments.
- Prior work within the Department of War and familiarity with its IT environments.
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Original Posting:September 24, 2026For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.
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.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree with 8–12 years of relevant experience, or master's degree with 6–10 years; additional technical experience may substitute for a degree.
- Current Top Secret/SCI clearance at the time of consideration.
- DoD 8570.11 IAT Level II certification, such as Security+ CE, CCNA-Security, GSEC, or SSCP.
- Advanced knowledge of storage systems architecture, lifecycle engineering, and infrastructure modernization.
- Demonstrated experience with NetApp, Dell EMC, Hitachi, VMware vSAN, and other storage technologies.
- Strong knowledge of enterprise computing environments and server virtualization platforms such as VMware.
- Working knowledge of VMware vSphere and backup technologies such as NetBackup, Commvault, and Veeam.
- Strong knowledge of SANs, Fibre Channel fabric, and storage technologies.
- Deep understanding of DISA STIGs, system hardening, and DoD security compliance frameworks.
- Ability to develop storage standards, architecture documentation, operational procedures, and support runbooks.
- Strong troubleshooting skills across systems, virtualization, and storage layers.
- Experience supporting large-scale Windows and Linux server environments.
- ITIL 5 Foundation Certification.
- Experience with storage migrations using native and third-party tools.
- Knowledge of backup platforms such as Commvault, Veeam, NetBackup, or similar.
- Familiarity with Ansible or PowerCLI for automation tasks.
- Experience in regulated, highly available, or mission-critical environments.
- Prior work within the Department of War and familiarity with its IT environments.
Leidos Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is described as comprehensive, with multiple plan options, low office-visit copays in some plans, and access to mental health and wellness support tools. The availability of HSA/FSA options and employer contributions is positioned as a meaningful part of the total package.
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Retirement Support — Retirement benefits are framed as a strong component of total rewards, highlighted by a 401(k) match and immediate vesting in the standard package. The Employee Stock Purchase Plan is also presented as an additional long-term wealth-building feature.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellbeing and lifestyle supports extend beyond core insurance, including wellness programs, fitness-related stipends, and assistance resources. Work flexibility and related perks are also included as part of the broader rewards experience.
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What We Do
We Are Leidos For 50 years we have been tackling some of the biggest problems that face our nation and our world. OUR MISSION Through our culture of innovation and history of performance, we develop deep customer trust built on integrity and create enduring solutions that improve our world. Leidos is a science and technology solutions leader working to address some of the world’s toughest challenges in the defense, intelligence, homeland security, civil, and healthcare markets. The company’s 43,000 employees support vital missions for government and commercial customers. Headquartered in Reston, Va., Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $11.09 billion for the fiscal year ended January 3, 2020. Leidos was cited for the meaningful work employees perform that is challenging, impactful, and aligned with our customers’ missions as reasons professionals want to work and stay at our company. Leidos has also been named to lists including Forbes’ Best Employers for Diversity, Forbes’ America’s Best Employers for Women, Military Times Best for Vets Employers, and Ethisphere Institute’s World's Most Ethical Companies®. Employees enjoy career enrichment opportunities available through mobility and development and experience rewarding relationships with supportive supervisors and talented colleagues and customers. Employees appreciate our flexible work environment, allowing for and encouraging a true work-life balance. Our professionals are also excited about our Employee Resource Groups, like the newly launched Collaborative Outreach with Remote and Embedded Employees (CORE), which strives to create an environment where every employee, regardless of location, feels fully engaged as a valued employee of Leidos. Your most important work is ahead.
