Senior IT Storage Architect (Remote)

Highmark Health; Arkansas City (KS); Remote; USD 136,000 - 166,000; Full time

Job summary

Highmark Health is seeking an experienced IT Storage Specialist to design, build, and maintain scalable storage solutions within a broad technical ecosystem. You will collaborate with IT, product, analytics, and business teams to translate requirements into robust implementations.

This role emphasizes governance, security, and operational excellence, with a focus on disaster recovery, cyber recovery testing, and professional development through mentoring and knowledge sharing.

Responsibilities

• Analyzing, designing, testing, implementing, and automating technical IT storage solutions.
• Providing general production monitoring, storage capacity management, and storage ecosystem support.
• Assisting in data backup and recovery management along with both disaster recovery and cyber recovery testing and activities.
• Collaborating on the design and implementation of storage architectures to ensure solution alignment to enterprise goals and standard.
• Collaborating with stakeholders across IT, product, analytics, and business teams to gather requirements and provide technical storage solutions that meet organizational needs.
• Monitoring work efforts against production schedules and providing progress updates, reporting any issues or technical difficulties to leadership on a regular basis.
• Meeting defined scope, target dates and budgets with minimal or no defects.
• Documenting technical processes and procedures.
• Mentoring other associate and intermediate technical engineers as needed.
• Performing technical analysis and providing insights to support decision-making.
• 5 years of experiences in one or many of the following tasks: analyzing, designing, coding, testing and implementing technical solutions, as well as providing general production support, meeting defined scope, target dates and budgets with minimal or no defects.
• 5 years of technical problem solving, solution implementation, team/project collaboration
• 5 years of basic computer science concepts and principles, common operating systems, development languages/scripting
• Managing technology platforms and infrastructure used by our enterprise.
• Translating requirements, design mockups, prototypes, or user stories into viable technical implementations.
• Developing and meeting technical governance, quality, and security best practices.
• Defining system architectures and exploring technical feasibility trade-offs that optimize short-term execution while planning for long-term technical capabilities.
• Understanding cloud platforms (GCP, Azure, AWS) and their respective storage services.
• Strong track record in designing, implementing, and supporting large-scale technical solutions
• Strong methodical troubleshooting and root cause analysis abilities
• Comfort with a range of IT tools and technologies, with a willingness to learn new skills and technologies as needed
• Ability to take on diverse tasks and projects, adapting to the evolving needs of the organization
• VMWare SRM
• Windows Clustering
• NetApp OnTap Cloud Volumes
• Linux
• Fundamental networking understanding
• Storage integrations with ServiceNow, Dynatrace, or other 3rd party tools.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Computer Engineering or related field

Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Computer Engineering or related field

Job description

Highmark Health is seeking an experienced IT Storage Specialist to design, build, and maintain scalable storage solutions within a broad technical ecosystem. You will collaborate with IT, product, analytics, and business teams to translate requirements into robust implementations.

This role emphasizes governance, security, and operational excellence, with a focus on disaster recovery, cyber recovery testing, and professional development through mentoring and knowledge sharing.