System Architect – SME, Storage

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $107.9k - $195.1k / year

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Leidos

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1969

🏥 Healthcare

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

Healthcare • Consulting • Logistics

Leidos is a leading systems integrator in science, technology, and engineering, providing solutions that transform and enable the missions of its customers. The company operates across various markets, including aviation, defense, energy, government, healthcare, intelligence, science, and space. Leidos is involved in AI, digital modernization, cyber operations, and integrated and mission software systems. With a commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and sustainability, Leidos also engages in charitable efforts and community enrichment programs. Additionally, it contributes to developing solutions for counter-unmanned aerial systems and electric vehicle infrastructure for military applications.

📋 Description

• Provide senior technical leadership for enterprise infrastructure architecture and modernization supporting the SEC ISS contract • Translate mission and functional requirements into scalable, secure technical solutions across on-premises and hybrid/multi-cloud environments • Lead cross-functional engineering and operations teams to improve reliability, automation, and service performance aligned to SEC OIT objectives • Drive technology evaluations, proofs of concept, pilots, and demos • Ensure designs integrate with 24x7x365 enterprise operations and observability requirements • Align architecture decisions with Zero Trust, FISMA, and SEC governance expectations • Architect and manage enterprise IT systems across server, platform, storage, and cloud domains • Define target-state designs, transitional architectures, integration patterns, implementation roadmaps, standards, and technical decision artifacts • Design, implement, and maintain enterprise SAN/NAS and storage virtualization solutions • Develop storage strategies, standards, and policies aligned with organizational and federal compliance requirements • Lead storage migrations, upgrades, technology refreshes, and cloud/on-premises integrations with minimal operational disruption • Engineer storage platforms for high availability, data integrity, and scalability across SEC environments • Identify, assess, and recommend technologies; lead POCs, pilots, and demos to validate feasibility, risk, and operational fit • Guide modernization across virtualization, cloud integration, and enterprise infrastructure transformation initiatives • Provide technical leadership to multi-discipline server and system operations teams • Establish requirements for monitoring, alerting, incident response, and operational visibility • Support root-cause analysis, corrective actions, continuous improvement, SLA and performance objectives • Ensure designs support 24x7x365 operations, including change/release coordination and lifecycle management • 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 storage SME for incident response, strategic planning, and continuous improvement • Administer and optimize large-scale enterprise storage environments through proactive monitoring and health management • Perform capacity planning and forecasting to maintain service continuity and prevent resource constraints • Troubleshoot advanced storage incidents involving latency, throughput, replication, and platform stability • Establish and track operational metrics and trend analysis for service-level performance • Embed security controls and compliance requirements into infrastructure and platform designs • Support FISMA-aligned controls, vulnerability remediation, secure configuration baselines, and SEC governance • Architect and maintain enterprise backup and recovery strategies • 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 through storage documentation, configuration baselines, and implementation evidence

🎯 Requirements

• Must meet contract citizenship/work authorization requirements • Ability to obtain and maintain SEC Public Trust (or higher if required) • Bachelor's degree in a relevant field • 12+ years of experience in engineering and architecting enterprise IT storage systems • Proven experience managing multi-discipline server and system operations teams • Demonstrated experience translating functional requirements into enterprise technical solutions and leading integration/scalability efforts • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to collaborate effectively across cross-functional teams • Hands-on experience with enterprise storage platforms and large-scale storage 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 • Experience supporting storage compliance, audit readiness, and documentation in federal IT environments • Advanced expertise in storage performance tuning, capacity planning, risk assessment, and disaster recovery strategies • Must have experience working with Clustered Data ONTAP software • Experience with enterprise infrastructure design and architecture • Experience with multi-vendor server operating systems • Experience with virtualization and cloud integration architecture • Experience with system integration and scalability architecture • Experience with security architecture for enterprise platforms • Experience with technology evaluation, POC/pilot execution, and solution validation • Experience with cross-functional technical leadership and stakeholder communication • Experience with cross-functional integration with infrastructure, network, and security teams • Experience with enterprise SAN/NAS platforms and storage virtualization • Experience with enterprise backup/recovery, replication, and disaster recovery operations • Experience with storage performance monitoring, tuning, and capacity management methodologies • Experience with advanced troubleshooting of mission-critical storage issues and operational risk assessment • Preferred: experience supporting U.S. federal IT environments with FISMA/NIST/OMB compliance requirements • Preferred: experience architecting or supporting observability platforms and enterprise monitoring integrations in large environments • Preferred: hands-on experience with container platforms and automation frameworks such as OpenShift, Kubernetes, Ansible, and GitOps toolchains • Preferred: experience leading architecture initiatives in 24x7x365 enterprise operations organizations • Preferred: prior support to SEC or similarly regulated financial-sector federal agencies • Preferred: NetApp Certified Data Administrator Certification (NCDA) or equivalent • Preferred: proficiency in Ansible, Python, and BASH • Preferred: experience developing and enforcing storage standards, policies, and operational best practices

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote / Telework • Potential participation in on-call or surge support activities depending on operational needs

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