Join VA's Infrastructure Operations (IO) team and help deliver secure, high-availability IT and cloud solutions that power essential services for Veterans. As an Enterprise Storage Engineer, you'll support and modernize mission-critical systems in a dynamic, innovative environment within Data Center and Cloud Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering and Operations in the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Information and Technology. Ready to make an impact?
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Leads collaborative efforts with other organizational entities to enable an end-to-end engineering approach for optimal technological solutions. Provides engineering services and technical oversight to critical, national initiatives related to enterprise platform, storage, database, and data center infrastructure solutions and associated issues and contributes to the mission of providing complex services by shaping the underlying IT architecture.
Performs enterprise storage and data capacity forecasting and growth planning, developing multi-year roadmaps to ensure future workload demands are met reliably, securely, and cost-effectively. Ensures studies and analyses are appropriately conducted and recommendations are provided on architectural solutions. Provides senior-level technical, enterprise level, expertise, guidance, direction, and project management.
Develops complex guidance to allow technically sound IT investment decisions and steer capital planning decisions. Initiates and provides technical oversight to engineering studies and analyses (including modeling and simulation efforts) concerning the introduction of new technologies, products, and topologies, and to find solutions to critical problems in design of solutions that have a national impact.
Designs and implements automation frameworks, APIs, and infrastructure-as-code to enable fleet-scale provisioning, configuration management, and compliance drift detection across enterprise storage infrastructure. Applies NIST SP 800-53 controls and FISMA requirements to enterprise storage and data architectures, including encryption at rest and in transit, external key management, and audit logging. This is a Non-Bargaining Unit Position.
This position is primarily aligned to the following NICE Cybersecurity Workforce Framework work roles: Cybersecurity Code 451- System Administrator: Responsible for setting up and maintaining a system or specific components of a system (e.g.
for example, installing, configuring, and updating hardware and software; establishing and managing user accounts; overseeing or conducting backup and recovery tasks; implementing operational and technical security controls; and adhering to organizational security policies and procedures).
For more information about these work roles, where they fit within the larger Cyber Workforce, and how they can support your unique career journey, please visit the Cyber Career Pathways tool on the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Careers and Studies website: https://niccs.us-cert.gov/workforce-development/cyber-career-pathways Work Schedule: Monday-Friday, 8 am-4:30 pm Compressed/Flexible: Available at Supervisor's discretion.
Telework: ADHOC, as determined by Agency Policy. Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Position Description/PD#: IT Specialist (Policy and Planning)/PD02359A Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized PCS Appraised Value Offer (AVO): Not Authorized
There is no educational substitution at this grade level.
This position is with Deputy Assistant Secretary for Information and Technology, Department of Veterans Affairs.
The posted pay range is $107446 – $139684/yr.
This position is eligible for telework.
This position requires a Other security clearance.
Applications close on 2026-10-14.
There are 2 openings for this position.
This position is open under the 'Fed Transition' hiring path.
Source: USAJOBS.gov — U.S. Federal Government
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