Senior Storage & Backup Systems Engineer

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

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