Senior Enterprise Storage Engineer

About the role

The University of Pennsylvania seeks a Senior Enterprise Storage Engineer to lead the design, operation, and lifecycle management of its enterprise storage platforms. This role requires deep expertise in enterprise storage platforms, including NAS and SAN environments, and a strong track record managing mission-critical storage systems in complex environments.

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.