Data Storage Engineer

Unleash Your Potential At Leidos, we deliver innovative solutions through the efforts of our diverse and talented people who are dedicated to our customer’s success. We empower our teams, contribute to our communities, and operate 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.  If this sounds like an environment where you can thrive, keep reading!  The Mission Leidos is seeking a Data Storage Engineer to support the National Digital Exploitation & OSINT Center (NDOC).  This role requires technical expertise in storage engineering, system administration, and operations. This role is responsible for optimizing the configuration of the enterprise storage infrastructure to maximize availability, performance, and capacity.  This role participates in the lifecycle process of purchasing, installing, maintaining, and replacing storage devices across on-premise and cloud IT environments.  This role collects and evaluates metrics to optimize storage operations.  This individual identifies risks, performs assessments, and analyzes risk mitigation strategies.  Finally, this individual is responsible for developing and maintaining system documentation and procedures in accordance with customer requirements.  The Customer utilizes an Agile Framework to plan and successfully complete all initiatives. The work location is in Bethesda at 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 modernization initiatives, including solution trade studies, technology evaluations, and engineering recommendations. Engineer lifecycle replacement strategies for enterprise storage infrastructure, balancing risk, obsolescence, cost, and operational continuity. Develop and maintain engineering artifacts including architecture diagrams, low-level designs, interface documentation, data flow mappings, and implementation plans. Apply systems engineering principles to storage integration, interoperability, performance optimization, and infrastructure resilience. Perform engineering analysis of system dependencies, failure modes, and technical risks; develop mitigation strategies to improve reliability and supportability. Advanced Engineering / Design Responsibilities Engineer and optimize storage solutions for multi-petabyte environments supporting virtualization, GPU/compute-intensive workloads, and mission-critical applications. Provide engineering support for performance modeling, capacity forecasting, and lifecycle planning using operational metrics and trend analysis. Contribute to disaster recovery architecture, data protection engineering, and continuity solution design for enterprise storage services. Experience with systems engineering lifecycle methodologies, including requirements development, systems design, architecture, integration, testing, sustainment, and lifecycle refresh. Demonstrated knowledge of storage systems architecture, lifecycle engineering, and infrastructure modernization principles. Familiarity with model-based or traditional systems engineering disciplines, architecture frameworks, and engineering documentation 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.  Generate backup status reports as required Administer Cisco Brocade fiber channel switch fabrics.  Configure single initiator zone sets and monitor switch utilization and performance Create and secure SMB file shares Coordinate with server administrators to create, secure, and mount NFS exports Develop and implement Disaster Recovery and Continuity of Operations plans in accordance with customer requirements Install, configure, maintain, and administer Linux and Windows servers in support of storage operations such as Rubrik, Media, DSM and Master servers Build capacity management dashboards that 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 Coordinate with vCenter administrators to provision Storage Area Network (SAN) resources to VMWare ESX cluster datastores as required Configure and manage volume snapshots.  Assist customers with point-in-time file restores  Schedule and monitor volume replication for disaster recovery Monitor health and availability of infrastructure applications and systems Work with vendors to troubleshoot and resolve hardware and software failures Coordinate with Change Management to deconflict and schedule hardware maintenance activities, system and firmware updates, and other configuration changes Execute system changes during scheduled maintenance windows Monitor and evaluate system performance and capacity trends Resolve tier 2 and tier 3 service requests Identify opportunities to automate operations.  Develop automated solutions that take advantage of Dell and NetApp system APIs Seek opportunities for continuous improvement to support effective and efficient operations Work with Cloud Storage solutions as needed for Cloud applications Work independently with minimal supervision Mentor junior team members Basic Qua