SAN and NAS storage Infrastructure Engineer
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LOCAL CANDIDATES TO CHICAGO ONLY AS THEY WILL BE REQUIRED TO SPEND TIME AT THE OFFICE.
Drive the design of self-healing and fault-tolerant cloud services and infrastructure environments with best practice configurations for a wide variety of systems including databases, web services and messaging systems storage, backup, recovery, and other application support environments. Efficiently translate project requirements from architecture/environment diagrams to formulate appropriate questions to identify and remediate design gaps. Review and analyze architecture level security solutions at the domain or product level to transform them into cloud infrastructure designs and implementations. Establish strategic relations with key technology vendors to influence changes in future product releases. Must have experience with other cloud technologies including but not limited to compute, storage, network, and databases.
Lead and oversee the ongoing administration, maintenance, and problem resolution of existing SAN/NAS storage infrastructure and related software. Design, implement, and maintain SAN and NAS storage appliances/solutions for use by Cloud and other compute infrastructure. Configure data protection using Snapshots and SnapMirror, and manage Aggregates, Volumes, and LUNs on NetApp filers. Execute data migration to cloud environments using ONTAP, defining migration objectives and utilizing appropriate tools.
Expertise in NetBackup backup/recovery strategies across diverse systems and data types to achieve organizational RTO (Recovery Time Objective) and RPO (Recovery Point Objective) goals. Proficient in VMware virtualization technologies (computing and storage) to ensure seamless data backups.
Accountable for conducting research and benchmarks best practices and/or products in cloud technologies. Routinely gathers and assesses changing business needs. Analyzes and modifies enterprise technology strategy and architecture. Analyzes how business processes interact with technology to create value for the business. Maintains knowledge of cloud technologies, trends, and standards. Provides input to the content of Requests for Information / Proposal (RFI/P) around the technology architecture / infrastructure requirements and guiding principles. Conducts trend analyses to track emerging industry trends and technologies. Research and assist in the piloting the evaluation of new tools, technologies, and/or processes to maintain and enhance the critical system infrastructure.
Manages cloud configuration to ensure systems are up to date to latest security patches and operational resilience to incidence. Work with EIT staff to plan and ensure updates are conducted on a timely basis across all Enterprise systems. Develop technical solutions and new security tools to help mitigate security vulnerabilities and automate repeatable tasks. Possesses a thorough understanding of cloud security fundamentals, such as; Encryption, Key Management, Identity to/from the cloud, shared cloud security, logging and monitoring cloud infrastructure. Automate the process of patching and vulnerability remediation. Continually evaluate new cloud infrastructure threats with associated mitigating designs and their impact on IT and Business operations always balancing these needs to develop and implement the best security solutions for the business.
Owns development of cloud computing templates and implementation guidance for applications that leverage IaaS solutions to meet use cases. Integrate application design strategies to include the design of loosely coupled cloud resources to allow for a redundant and resilient end user application design. Assist in performance improvements while ensuring security controls are in place protecting the network and data. Work with EIT staff including Enterprise Architect, Delivery teams, core computing and application support team to ensure adequate system performance based on business requirements and industry best practices.
Documentation of new cloud computing Application design guidelines for both new business applications and the porting of existing Business applications to align with a cloud model. Participate and conduct liaison activities in reviewing the application designs, providing recommended alterations to designs, and partnering with enterprise architects to transform current application design principles to be more cloud aligned. Coordinate and/or complete the development of all necessary design documentation associated with cloud service solutions. These are to include all aspects of cloud solutions such as application resiliency, disaster recovery, build book creation, and run book creation.
Independently use judgment and takes action on it to build credibility with clients and technical staff through the delivery of sound cloud-based business solutions. Consults with business and Enterprise IT Leadership and project staff to fit systems to solutions and identify when it is necessary to modify technical infrastructure to accommodate project needs.
Leads close collaboration with network and application security engineers to assure applications and systems are designed and configured to conform to general and product/application specific security architectures and to the security polices, guidelines and best practices provided by the Business Protection group for the protection of sensitive healthcare data. Owns service design and pricing in the context of cloud-based suctioning.
Deliverable:
Lead and oversee the ongoing administration, maintenance, and problem resolution of existing SAN/NAS storage infrastructure and related software. Design, implement, and maintain SAN and NAS storage appliances/solutions for use by Cloud and other compute infrastructure. Configure data protection using Snapshots and SnapMirror, and manage Aggregates, Volumes, and LUNs on NetApp filers. Execute data migration to cloud environments using ONTAP, defining migration objectives and utilizing appropriate tools.
