Storage Engineer - SME
The Storage Engineer-_SME provides senior technical leadership for enterprise storage services under the SEC Infrastructure Support Services (ISS) contract. This role architects, implements, and sustains highly available storage platforms supporting mission-critical SEC workloads across primary, alternate, and regional environments. The engineer drives performance optimization, capacity planning, and resilient backup and recovery strategies to meet recovery objectives, continuity requirements, and operational service levels. This position ensures storage operations align with organizational and federal compliance requirements and coordinates closely with EOC, infrastructure, network, and security teams. PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES Enterprise Storage Architecture and Engineering - Design, implement, and maintain enterprise SAN/NAS and storage virtualization solutions for mission-critical systems. - Develop storage strategies, standards, and policies aligned with organizational and federal compliance requirements. - Lead complex storage projects, including migrations, upgrades, and integration with cloud and on-premises environments. - Ensure storage platforms are engineered for high availability, data integrity, and scalability across SEC environments. Storage Operations, Performance, and Capacity Management - Administer and optimize large-scale enterprise storage environments, including proactive monitoring and health management. - Perform capacity planning and forecasting to maintain service continuity and prevent resource constraints. - Troubleshoot and resolve advanced storage incidents, including latency, throughput, replication, and platform stability issues. - Establish and track operational metrics and trend analysis to support service-level performance. Data Protection, Recovery, and Compliance - Architect and maintain enterprise backup and recovery strategies to protect mission-critical data. - Implement and validate disaster recovery and business continuity storage controls, including cross-site replication and recovery readiness. - Ensure retention, recovery, and data protection practices meet organizational policy and federal compliance requirements. - Support audit readiness by maintaining storage documentation, configuration baselines, and implementation evidence. Technical Leadership and Cross-Functional Delivery - Lead storage workstreams for migrations, technology refreshes, and modernization efforts with minimal operational disruption. - Collaborate with infrastructure, network, security, virtualization, and cloud teams to integrate storage services end-to-end. - Conduct risk assessments and recommend remediation strategies for storage resiliency, security, and operational risk. - Mentor junior engineers and serve as the storage SME for incident response, strategic planning, and continuous improvement initiatives. REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS Citizenship/Work Authorization: Must meet contract requirements. Clearance: Ability to obtain and maintain SEC Public Trust (or higher if required). Education: Bachelor's degree in a relevant technical field. Experience: - 8+ years of experience in enterprise storage architecture, design, and administration. - Expertise with SAN/NAS technologies, storage virtualization, and enterprise backup/recovery solutions. - Experience leading complex storage migrations, upgrades, and integration with cloud and on-premises environments. - Advanced expertise in storage performance tuning, capacity planning, risk assessment, and disaster recovery strategies. Technical Skills: - Enterprise SAN/NAS platforms and storage virtualization - Enterprise backup/recovery, replication, and disaster recovery operations - Storage performance monitoring, tuning, and capacity management methodologies - Advanced troubleshooting of mission-critical storage issues and operational risk assessment - Cross-functional integration with infrastructure, network, and security teams PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS - Industry certification such as NetApp, EMC, or equivalent is strongly preferred. - Hands-on experience with enterprise storage platforms and large-scale storage administration. - Experience developing and enforcing storage standards, policies, and operational best practices. - Experience supporting storage compliance, audit readiness, and documentation in federal IT environments. - Demonstrated technical leadership and mentorship of junior storage engineers. - NetApp, EMC, or equivalent industry certification. WORK ENVIRONMENT / OTHER Operational Support: May require participation in on-call or surge support activities depending on operational needs. Location: Telework Travel: As required per contract direction. EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE BS degree and 8 – 12 years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 6 – 10 years of prior relevant experience. May possess a Doctorate in technical domain. If you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo — because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We're already at step 30 — and moving faster than anyone else dares. Original Posting: May 21, 2026 For 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. 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. Apply To This Job