Data Storage Engineer

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At Leidos, we deliver innovive solutions through the efforts of our diverse and talented people who are dediced to our customer’s success. We empower our teams, contribute to our communities, and opere sustainably. Everything we do is built on a commitment to do the right thing for our customers, our people, and our community. Our Mission, Vision, and Values guide the way we do business. 

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The Mission

Leidos is seeking a Da Storage Engineer to support the Nional Digital Exploition & OSINT Center (NDOC).  This role requires technical expertise in storage engineering, system administrion, and operions. This role is responsible for optimizing the configurion of the enterprise storage infrastructure to maximize availability, performance, and capacity.  This role participes in the lifecycle process of purchasing, installing, maintaining, and replacing storage devices across on-premise and cloud IT environments.  This role collects and evalues metrics to optimize storage operions.  This individual identifies risks, performs assessments, and analyzes risk mitigion stregies.  Finally, this individual is responsible for developing and maintaining system documention and procedures in accordance with customer requirements.  The Customer utilizes an Agile Framework to plan and successfully complete all initiives.

The work locion is in Bethesda the Intelligence Community Campus.

Full Life Cycle Engineering Duties and Primary Tasks:

Systems Engineering / Architecture / Lifecycle Design

• Design and engineer scalable enterprise storage architectures supporting performance, resiliency, high availability, and mission growth requirements across on-premise and cloud environments.
• Develop logical and physical storage architectures, reference designs, and engineering roadmaps aligned to customer mission requirements and future capacity demands.
• Perform systems design and engineering analysis for storage modernizion initiives, including solution trade studies, technology evaluions, and engineering recommendions.
• Engineer lifecycle replacement stregies for enterprise storage infrastructure, balancing risk, obsolescence, cost, and operional continuity.
• Develop and maintain engineering artifacts including architecture diagrams, low-level designs, interface documention, da flow mappings, and implemention plans.
• Apply systems engineering principles to storage integrion, interoperability, performance optimizion, and infrastructure resilience.
• Perform engineering analysis of system dependencies, failure modes, and technical risks; develop mitigion stregies to improve reliability and supportability.

Advanced Engineering / Design Responsibilities

• Engineer and optimize storage solutions for multi-petabyte environments supporting virtualizion, GPU/compute-intensive workloads, and mission-critical applicions.
• Provide engineering support for performance modeling, capacity forecasting, and lifecycle planning using operional metrics and trend analysis.
• Contribute to disaster recovery architecture, da protection engineering, and continuity solution design for enterprise storage services.
• Experience with systems engineering lifecycle methodologies, including requirements development, systems design, architecture, integrion, testing, sustainment, and lifecycle refresh.

• Demonstred knowledge of storage systems architecture, lifecycle engineering, and infrastructure modernizion principles.
• Familiarity with model-based or traditional systems engineering disciplines, architecture frameworks, and engineering documention practices preferred.
• Install, configure, and administer enterprise storage systems from multiple vendors to include, but not limited to, Dell EMC and Quantum 
• Install, configure, and administer Rubrik server and client software.  Schedule and monitor backup policies.  Genere backup stus reports as required
• Administer Cisco Brocade fiber channel switch fabrics.  Configure single initior zone sets and monitor switch utilizion and performance
• Cree and secure SMB file shares
• Coordine with server administrors to cree, secure, and mount NFS exports
• Develop and implement Disaster Recovery and Continuity of Operions plans in accordance with customer requirements
• Install, configure, maintain, and administer Linux and Windows servers in support of storage operions such as Rubrik, Media, DSM and Master servers
• Build capacity management dashboards th improve visibility into enterprise storage use, health, resilience, and provide ongoing resources for planning for enterprise infrastructure lifecycle replacement
• Configure Rubrik policies.  Troubleshoot and resolve backup job failures
• Coordine with vCenter administrors to provision Storage Area Network (SAN) resources to VMWare ESX cluster dastores as required
• Configure and manage volume snapshots.  Assist customers with point-in-time file restores 
• Schedule and monitor volume replicion for disaster recovery
• Monitor health and availability of infrastructure applicions and systems
• Work with vendors to troubleshoot and resolve hardware and software failures
• Coordine with Change Management to deconflict and schedule hardware maintenance activities, system and firmware updes, and other configurion changes
• Execute system changes during scheduled maintenance windows
• Monitor and evalue system performance and capacity trends
• Resolve tier 2 and tier 3 service requests
• Identify opportunities to autome operions.  Develop automed solutions th take advantage of Dell and NetApp system APIs
• Seek opportunities for continuous improvement to support effective and efficient operions
• Work with Cloud Storage solutions as needed for Cloud applicions
• Work independently with minimal supervision
• Mentor junior team members

Basic Qualificions

• Extensive experience managing and administering Veritas Rubrik 
• Experience with scripting technologies such as PowerShell
• Working knowledge of Unix or Linux based opering systems
• Working knowledge of Distributed File System (DFS)
• Excellent communicion skills
• Ability to mentor junior team members
• Ability to complete complex projects with minimal direction
• Experience working independently to support a 24/7/365 customer environment
• Experience contributing to deliverables and meeting performance metrics
• Experience coordining with senior management and customers 
• Candide must, a minimum, meet DoD 8570.11- IAT Level II certificion requirements (currently Security+ CE, CCNA-Security, GSEC, or SSCP along with an approprie computing environment (CE) certificion) 
• Extensive experience administering enterprise-level da storage systems (Dell Storage Center, Dell Compellent, and Da Domain preferred) with a demonstred understanding of the following services and technologies
• SAN administrion including provisioning of LUNs, managing fibre channel zoning, and mapping storage to servers
• NAS administrion including NFS and SMB file sharing
• Integrion with VMWare ESX Server
• Da migrion stregies
• Snapshots
• Volume replicion
• Managing file and share permissions in an Active Directory environment
• Storage monitoring and performance tuning
• Understanding of Cloud storage management 

Educion

• Bachelor's degree with 8 years of relevant experience, Master’s degree with 6 years. Educion equivalency of Associe’s with 12 years of reled experience or High School Diploma with 14 years of reled experience can be used in lieu of Bachelor’s degree.

Clearance Requirement

• Due to the nure of the government contracts we support, US Citizenship is required.
• TS/SCI with Poly required for Position or TS/SCI and willingness to obtain a poly.

Preferred Qualificions

• Experience with Disaster Recovery and COOP storage backup and recovery within and across the da centers and the Cloud
• Ability to analyze cloud migrion approaches to support customer decision making for effective and efficient cloud migrions
• Experience managing Distributed File System (DFS) namespaces

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Pay Range:

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compension or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, educion, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market da, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

About Leidos

Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovions. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with 47,000 global employees, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximely $16.7 billion for the fiscal year ended January 3, 2025. For more informion, visit www.Leidos.com.

Pay and Benefits

Pay and benefits are fundamental to any career decision. Th's why we craft compension packages th reflect the importance of the work we do for our customers. Employment benefits include competitive compension, Health and Wellness programs, Income Protection, Paid Leave and Retirement. More details are available www.leidos.com/careers/pay-benefits.

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Commitment to Non-Discriminion

All qualified applicants will receive considerion for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, nional origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic informion, pregnancy, family structure, marital stus, ancestry, domestic partner stus, sexual oriention, gender identity or expression, veteran or military stus, or any other basis prohibited by law. Leidos will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with relevant laws.

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