Senior Engineer - Storage

hmsacareers; Honolulu (HI); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

HMSA is seeking an experienced Storage Infrastructure Lead to oversee HMSA’s storage and backup environments across SAN, NAS, and DR domains. You will drive planning, architecture, and governance, ensuring high availability and secure operations.

Responsibilities include implementing storage solutions, mentoring staff, coordinating with vendors, and maintaining documentation and service levels. Applicants should have extensive experience in datacenter storage, backup technologies, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or technical institute degree / certificate or equivalent work experience.
• Five years of relevant information technology work experience.
• Strong understanding of Datacenter consolidation, IaaS, private cloud, virtualization, assessment and capacity planning technologies and best practices.
• Strong understanding of OS fundamentals for UNIX, Linux and/or Microsoft platforms.
• Strong understanding of virtualization technologies and VMware products.
• Experience with Brocade and/or Cisco SAN Switches and Routers.
• Experience with installing, configuring, supporting and maintaining Enterprise Backup solutions comprising disk-based VTLs.
• Experience with storage configuration, volume management and path management software tools (LVM, Native MPIO, EMC PowerPath, HDS HDLM, etc.).

Responsibilities

• Leading the support of HMSA's storage infrastructure, planning and implementing enhancements.
• Develops Reference Architectures and technology standards to be offered as services.
• Implements, secures and ensures availability of Storage, Backups and SAN infrastructure.
• Provisions resources, conducts advanced maintenance, data replication, DR, and data migration.
• Develops documentation for Open Systems Storage and Backup environments.
• Supports complex Storage and Backup devices (SAN, NAS, Backups) under minimal supervision.
• Operates in highly-secure, highly-available datacenter environments.
• Provides technical expertise across business functions and reviews IT infrastructure.

Skills

Datacenter consolidation

Virtualization

IaaS

Private cloud

OS fundamentals

VMware

Disaster recovery

Monitoring tools

MS Office

Education

Bachelor’s degree / technical degree

5 years IT experience

Tools

Brocade SAN switches

Cisco SAN routers

EMC PowerPath

HDS HDLM

LVM

MPIO

Job description

Employee Responsibilities

1. Responsible for leading the support of HMSA's storage infrastructure. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to the following:
   
   • Ensures the reliability of HMSA's storage infrastructure, to include the planning and implementation of enhancements.
   • Develops Reference Architectures and technology standards based on Infrastructure Building Blocks, that can be offered as services to HMSA business units.
   • Implements, secures and ensures the availability of Storage, Backups and SAN infrastructure.
   • Provisions resources, and conducts advanced maintenance, data replication, disaster recovery, and data migration.
   • Develops documentation for our Open Systems Storage and Backup environments.
   • Supports complex Storage and Backup devices, including SAN, NAS and Backup solutions under minimal supervision.
   • Operates in complex, highly-secure, highly-available, operations-centric datacenter environments.
2. Provides technical expertise across business functions, understanding the relationship between the business and the Information Systems Department. Explains infrastructure capabilities. Consults with other Information Systems Department teams regarding infrastructure requirements and provides recommendations for both the design and implementation of systems integration efforts. Reviews and makes recommendations with respect to IT infrastructure that deviates from established architecture standards. Leads project planning and requirements gathering efforts. Recommends and creates action plans for systems development and / or integration. Identifies the need for major support contracts. Reviews vendor proposals. Prioritizes, plans and implements upgrades and ensure that change management procedures are implemented and followed. Prioritizes, plans and implements infrastructure repairs and installations. Coordinates and plans activities with vendors. Ensures that asset and Oversees the conduct of disposal procedures are adhered to. Designs and implements infrastructure replacement plans. Maintains inventories as appropriate. Monitors Key Performance Indicators and maintains service levels to ensure that requirements are met or exceeded. Escalates problems as required. Informs management as appropriate. Troubleshoots and diagnoses complex and escalated problems. Works with multiple vendors to coordinate the resolution of issues. Reviews logs and maintains Information Technology Service Management tools to document changes and identify recurring problems.
   Identifies the training needs of users. Shares knowledge with users and other Information Systems Department staff. Updates users on the status of incidents and problems. Ensures that follow-up procedures are adhered to. Tracks customer satisfaction. Participates in long-term infrastructure strategy and planning. Participates in rotating on-call support schedules. Provides after-hours support to business operations, as needed. Supports remote locations across the Hawaiian Islands, to include overnight travel, as needed.
   Mentors and assists in the professional development of less experienced staff. Required to be on-call for critical incidents as they arise.
3. Employee must participate in continuing education and training as needed or assigned. This is to ensure an accurate and updated knowledge base.
4. Performs all other miscellaneous responsibilities and duties as assigned or directed.

Qualifications and Experience

1. Bachelor's degree or technical institute degree / certificate or equivalent work experience.
2. Five years of relevant information technology work experience.
3. Substitutions such as a higher-level degree, specialized training or certification and less work experience will be considered.
4. Strong understanding of Datacenter consolidation, IaaS, private cloud, virtualization, assessment and capacity planning technologies and best practices
5. Strong understanding of OS fundamentals for UNIX, Linux and/or Microsoft platforms
6. Strong understanding of virtualization technologies and VMware products.
7. Experience with Brocade and/or Cisco SAN Switches and Routers
8. Experience with installing, configuring, supporting and maintaining Enterprise Backup solutions comprising disk-based VTLs
9. Experience with storage configuration, volume management and path management software tools (LVM, Native MPIO, EMC PowerPath, HDS HDLM, etc.)
10. Experience with Disaster Recovery as it relates to storage systems and data recovery techniques, including disk replication, snapshots and disaster recovery best practices
11. Experience in system monitoring tools and techniques for supporting SAN, NAS and Backups operations, alerting and remediation
    Intermediate knowledge of Microsoft Office applications. Including but not limited to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.