Senior Enterprise Storage Engineer

About the role

The University of Pennsylvania is seeking a highly experienced and self-driven Senior Enterprise Storage Engineer to lead the design, operation, and lifecycle management of its enterprise storage platforms.

Responsibilities

• Serves as the primary technical owner of the University’s storage infrastructure, responsible for the design, implementation, operation, and continuous improvement of scalable and resilient storage solutions.
• Manages the day-to-day administration of storage systems, including performance monitoring, capacity planning, patching, troubleshooting, and ensuring high availability across NAS and SAN environments.
• Responsible for the disaster recovery strategy and execution for storage services, including designing, maintaining, and regularly testing replication, backup, and recovery processes to ensure business continuity and data integrity.
• Operating with a high degree of independence, leads storage-related initiatives, establishes standards and best practices, and collaborates with cross-functional IT and cloud teams.
• Implements data protection and security controls, ensuring compliance with applicable policies and regulatory requirements, maintaining comprehensive documentation, and proactively identifying and resolving risks to system performance and reliability.
• Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science and minimum of 5 years of experience or equivalent combination of education and experience is required.
• Enterprise storage engineering experience, with a strong preference for experience supporting large-scale, complex enterprise environments.
• Deep expertise in enterprise storage platforms, including administration and support of NAS (NFS/SMB/CIFS) and SAN (iSCSI/Fibre Channel) environments.
• Demonstrate a strong understanding of data protection and resiliency technologies, including snapshots, replication, backup, disaster recovery, and high-availability architectures.
• Proven experience operating independently in a senior or lead engineering capacity, with responsibilities including performance tuning, capacity planning, lifecycle management, and ensuring operational stability of enterprise storage infrastructure.
• Solid understanding of networking concepts and automation.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, communication, and technical documentation skills.
• Strongly Preferred: Expertise across one or more leading storage vendors such as NetApp, Dell EMC, Pure Storage, VAST, HPE, IBM, Hitachi, or similar OEM solutions.
• Experience with open-storage systems – such as ZFS, Ceph, BTRFS, EXT4 or similar solutions.
• Experience with hybrid cloud storage architecture and cloud-integrated storage services including AWS, Azure, Google, and/or Oracle storage technologies.
• Experience supporting virtualization platforms, enterprise backup solutions, and automation-driven infrastructure operations.