Senior Storage Engineer – Hybrid Hawaii

HMSA; Honolulu (HI); Hybrid; USD 68,000 - 133,000; Full time

Job summary

HMSA seeks an experienced Storage Infrastructure Lead to manage HMSA's storage, backups, and SAN environments in a hybrid Honolulu-area role. You will drive reliability, capacity planning, and architecture across enterprise storage and DR processes.

The role requires 5+ years in IT storage, VMware proficiency, and SAN expertise, with on-call responsibilities and Hawaii residency. The HMSA Technical Services - Systems Engineering Team leads infrastructure initiatives across the organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or technical institute degree / certificate or equivalent work experience.
• Five years of relevant information technology work experience.
• Substitutions such as a higher-level degree, specialized training or certification and less work experience will be considered.
• 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.)
• Experience with Disaster Recovery as it relates to storage systems and data recovery techniques, including disk replication, snapshots and disaster recovery best practices
• Experience in system monitoring tools and techniques for supporting SAN, NAS and Backups operations, alerting and remediation

Responsibilities

• Leads HMSA's storage infrastructure support; ensures reliability and plans enhancements.
• Develops reference architectures and technology standards for HMSA services.
• Implements, secures and ensures availability of Storage, Backups and SAN infrastructure.
• Provisions resources and conducts advanced maintenance, data replication, DR, and data migrations.
• Develops documentation for Open Systems Storage and Backup environments.
• Supports complex Storage and Backup devices including SAN/NAS and backups.
• Operates in highly secure, highly available datacenter environments.
• Provides architectural guidance and consults with IS teams on infrastructure requirements.

Skills

Datacenter consolidation

IaaS

Private cloud

Virtualization

VMware

SAN networking

Backup solutions

OS fundamentals

Education

Bachelor's degree or technical institute degree/certificate or equivalent

Tools

Brocade SAN switches

Cisco SAN switches/routers

EMC PowerPath

LVM

Native MPIO

Job description

HMSA seeks an experienced Storage Infrastructure Lead to manage HMSA's storage, backups, and SAN environments in a hybrid Honolulu-area role. You will drive reliability, capacity planning, and architecture across enterprise storage and DR processes.

The role requires 5+ years in IT storage, VMware proficiency, and SAN expertise, with on-call responsibilities and Hawaii residency. The HMSA Technical Services - Systems Engineering Team leads infrastructure initiatives across the organization.