Senior IT Engineer – Enterprise Storage, Backup

Jobtailor; Kentucky; On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor in Kentucky seeks an experienced Engineer to design, implement and optimize our enterprise infrastructure platforms, with a focus on modernizing storage and backup systems and ensuring resilient operations.

You will lead cross-functional teams, manage budgets, and drive process improvements using data-driven analysis. Excellent communication with stakeholders and vendor partners is essential in this role.

Qualifications

• Eight years of experience in a technical engineering role.
• Technical engineering experience in enterprise infrastructure environments.
• Experience with storage and backup platforms.
• Advanced knowledge of IT technologies including endpoint devices, servers, security, network, storage, and telecom.
• Experience participating in process improvement or project work.
• Ability to gather, analyze, and interpret business drivers.
• Project management and process excellence with a strong analytical, data-driven approach to problem solving.
• Strong interpersonal, leadership, collaboration, and communication skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a highly matrixed environment.
• Ability to drive people, process, and technology changes.
• Ability to explain complex technical ideas to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Knowledge of regulatory and contractual compliance beneficial.
• Experience leading large, complex projects across multiple functional departments beneficial.
• Experience in a complex healthcare organization beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Engineer, implement, optimize, and manage the lifecycle of enterprise infrastructure platforms.
• Modernize enterprise storage and backup platforms.
• Perform platform engineering, lifecycle management, capacity planning, monitoring, and resilience activities.
• Develop infrastructure standards and contribute to strategic planning and roadmaps.
• Provide technical direction, oversight, and escalation support to operational support teams.
• Coordinate with infrastructure architects, engineers, enterprise architects, application teams, operations teams, and vendor partners.
• Communicate and coordinate with internal customers and third-party vendors.
• Support ITIL processes including change, release, capacity, and other IT service management.
• Analyze, plan, justify, schedule, and coordinate initiatives across admin, operations, and finance.
• Manage TCO, optimization, and efficiency initiatives.
• Oversee supplier reporting metrics, dashboards, and status reporting.
• Plan, monitor, and control operating and capital budgets.
• Perform duties with focus on safety, quality, and efficiency.

Skills

Enterprise Infrastructure Management

ITIL Processes

Project Management

Data-Driven Problem Solving

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's Degree in related field (IT/Engineering/CS)

Tools

Dell PowerScale

Dell PowerStore

Cohesity

Pure Storage

Cisco MDS SAN

Job description

• Engineer, implement, optimize, and manage the lifecycle of enterprise infrastructure platforms
• Modernize enterprise storage and backup platforms
• Perform platform engineering, lifecycle management, capacity planning, monitoring, and system resilience activities
• Develop infrastructure technology standards and contribute to strategic planning and roadmaps
• Provide technical direction, oversight, and escalation support to operational support teams
• Coordinate with infrastructure architects, engineers, enterprise architects, application teams, operations teams, and vendor partners
• Communicate and coordinate with internal customers and third-party vendors
• Support crisis management, support escalation, change management, release management, capacity management, and other ITIL processes
• Analyze, plan, justify, schedule, and coordinate specialty-area administrative, operational, and financial initiatives
• Manage TCO, optimization, and efficiency initiatives
• Oversee supplier reporting metrics, dashboards, and status reporting
• Plan, monitor, and control operating and capital budgets
• Perform duties with focus on safety, quality, and efficiency

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree required
• Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Computer/Management Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related field
• Eight years of experience in a technical engineering role
• Technical engineering experience in enterprise infrastructure environments
• Experience with storage and backup platforms
• Advanced knowledge of IT technologies including endpoint devices, servers, security, network, storage, and telecom
• Experience participating in process improvement or project work
• Knowledge of Dell PowerScale, Dell PowerStore, Cohesity, Pure Storage, Cisco MDS SAN, and hybrid cloud infrastructure preferred
• Ability to gather, analyze, and interpret business drivers
• Project management and process excellence with a strong analytical, data-driven approach to problem solving
• Strong interpersonal, leadership, collaboration, and communication skills
• Ability to work collaboratively in a highly matrixed environment
• Ability to drive people, process, and technology changes
• Ability to explain complex technical ideas to technical and non-technical audiences
• Knowledge of regulatory and contractual compliance beneficial
• Experience leading large, complex projects across multiple functional departments beneficial
• Experience in a complex healthcare organization beneficial

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in enterprise infrastructure management, including lifecycle management, capacity planning, and system resilience. Proficient in modernizing storage and backup platforms while ensuring compliance and effective communication across technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• Enterprise Infrastructure Management
• Storage And Backup Platforms
• ITIL Processes
• Project Management
• Data-Driven Problem Solving

ATS Optimization Keywords

Hard Skills

• Technical Engineering
• Capacity Planning
• System Resilience
• Process Improvement
• Data Analysis

Soft Skills

• Leadership
• Collaboration
• Communication
• Interpersonal Skills

Industry Keywords

• Enterprise Infrastructure
• Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure
• Regulatory Compliance
• Healthcare Organization
• Operational Support

Tools & Technologies

• Dell PowerScale
• Dell PowerStore
• Cohesity
• Pure Storage
• Cisco MDS SAN