Senior Storage Engineer
Job Summary
The Senior Storage Engineer ensures the stability, integrity, and efficient operation of SAN arrays, data fabrics, and managed storage arrays. This role focuses on modernizing storage environments, managing infrastructure life cycles, and providing enterprise-level technical leadership. You will lead troubleshooting efforts, drive automation, and collaborate with teams to maintain high-performance storage systems.
Responsibilities
- Manage and maintain SAN arrays and data fabrics
- Lead incident troubleshooting and root cause analysis
- Drive storage infrastructure modernization and automation
- Support life cycle processes including installs and upgrades
- Collaborate on enterprise solution design and configuration
Required Skills
- Minimum 8-10 years storage engineering experience
- Expertise in Nutanix, Pure, Hitachi, and Brocade
- Proficiency in Python and Ansible automation
- Strong understanding of ITIL methodologies
- Knowledge of FCIP, Vmware, and TCP/IP networking
Job Details
Responsibilities:
- Bring prior experience to organize and define work for complex or ambiguous situations.
- Resolve issues, manage workload, and balance priorities through frequent interruptions while meeting specific, time-sensitive deadlines.
- Support release and life cycle processes for storage array and fabric installs, upgrades, and decommissions.
- Provide thought leadership for storage infrastructure support at the enterprise level.
- Contribute to operational readiness of platforms with dedicated/shared teams and consult on resource and skills required, process documentation creation, updates to guidelines, policies, change, and audit procedures.
- Participate in troubleshooting efforts for storage issues and lead in major incidents, root cause analysis, and performance analysis and tuning.
- Act as an ITIL-compliant champion for incident, request, change, and problem management.
- Partner with the monitoring team to develop new event and performance monitors/alerts.
- Participate in the modernization and automation of storage infrastructure.
- Deployment of new SAN/Switch infrastructure and maintain accurate CMDB.
- Participate in problem management to proactively review infrastructure problems and known errors.
- Assist and provide technical input on complex solution design, configuration, integration, and installation of new services.
Qualifications:
- Requires a minimum of 10 years of related experience with a Bachelor degree; or 8 years and a Masters degree; or a PhD with 5 years experience; or equivalent work experience.
- Platforms experience desired: Nutanix, Pure, Hitachi, Brocade primarily; Dell EMC, Cisco, IBM, NetApp secondarily.
- Other skills desired: Fibre Channel over IP (FCIP), Python, Ansible, Linux/Windows/Vmware, basic understanding of TCP/IP networks and firewalls.