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Fairview Health Services

Senior Data Storage Engineer

Fairview Health Services, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, 55400


Overview

The Sr Storage Engineer role includes leading the design, configuration, development, integration, testing, implementation, documentation and support of Storage and Backup infrastructure environments. Manage the building of Storage and Backup Infrastructure services through a deep understanding of the application requirements. Work with Architecture, Operational teams to develop, apply and support for Enterprise Storage and Backup Infrastructure processes, tools, and environments.

This position is eligible for benefits!

Some of the benefits we offer at Fairview include medical insurance - as low as $0, dental insurance - also a $0 option, PTO (24 days per year starting), and a 403B with up to a 6% employer match; visit www.fairview.org/benefits to learn more and get all the details.

Responsibilities Job Description

Job Expectations:

Analyze, design, and implement mission critical storage and backup solutions for advanced storage and virtualized infrastructure. Optimizing for performance, scalability, and availability across multiple computing environments and platforms.

Be a subject matter expert across all storage and data protection platforms, utilized at Fairview (E.g. NetApp, Pure Storage, AWS, CommVault). SME level knowledge of block, file, and object storage platforms and the primary protocols used in those platforms (CIFS/NFS/S3/FC)

Work with business and application development teams to extract requirements and propose appropriate storage and backup solutions and standards.

Create and maintain procedures that meet operational, regulatory, and company policies. Ensure consistent storage and backup availability and capabilities. Establish and maintain documentation of the current technology state and effectively propose enhancements.

Create and maintain optimal backup, restore and redundancy solutions for business-critical data. Perform capacity planning and performance tuning as it relates to the storage infrastructure. Upgrade software, apply patches, and ensure physical security of data.

Oversee and perform diagnosis, troubleshoot, and conduct root-cause analysis for any issues on the storage and backup platforms.

Lead the creation of documentation for storage and backup environments. The documentation would include standard operating procedures, solutions, knowledge base articles and applicable project documentation.

Evaluate input and output for systems, as well as overall architecture, to recommend improvements. Design disaster recovery plans and enforce backup and archival procedures.

Research and identify industry trends in the storage and backup space, leveraging new ideas to improve the service design and support for the customer base.

Organization Expectations, as applicable:

Demonstrates ability to provide care or service adjusting approaches to reflect developmental level and cultural differences of population served.

Partners with patient care giver in care/decision making.

Communicates in a respective manner.

Ensures a safe, secure environment.

Individualizes plan of care to meet patient needs.

Modifies clinical interventions based on population served.

Provides patient education based on as assessment of learning needs of patient/care giver.

Fulfills all organizational requirements.

Completes all required learning relevant to the role.

Complies with and maintains knowledge of all relevant laws, regulation, policies, procedures and standards.

Fosters a culture of improvement, efficiency and innovative thinking.

Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree or Associates Degree or equivalent work experience

10-14 years’ experience engineering design and support of data center core infrastructures (E.g. Storage, Data Protection, Compute/Virtualization, Networking)

8-10 years’ experience to multiple hardware platforms, and integrated information management systems (E.g. NetApp, Pure Storage, Isilon, ECS, CommVault)

SME level knowledge in Storage and Backup technologies (CIFS/NFS/S3/FC/NVMe)

Advanced knowledge and understanding of Storage and Backup Security Practices

Good knowledge and understanding of SOX or an alternative Security Compliance including data privacy practices and law

Solid technical knowledge of VMware and other Virtualization Technologies

Expert knowledge in core enterprise infrastructure

Expert technical knowledge of PC’s, Networks, and other Operating Systems

Expert technical knowledge of supporting Hardware including Intel, Cisco and SAN / NAS environments

Certifications

Tier 1 Storage certifications

Preferred Qualifications

Experience within the Healthcare Industry

Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) certified

EEO Statement

EEO/AA Employer/Vet/Disabled: All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to any lawfully protected status