Senior Enterprise Storage Engineer

University Overview

The University of Pennsylvania, the largest private employer in Philadelphia, is a world-renowned leader in education, research, and innovation. This historic, Ivy League school consistently ranks among the top 10 universities in the annual U.S. News & World Report survey. Penn has 12 highly-regarded schools that provide opportunities for undergraduate, graduate and continuing education, all influenced by Penn’s distinctive interdisciplinary approach to scholarship and learning. As an employer Penn has been ranked nationally on many occasions with the most recent award from Forbes who named Penn one of America’s Best Large Employers in 2023.

Penn offers a unique working environment within the city of Philadelphia. The University is situated on a beautiful urban campus, with easy access to a range of educational, cultural, and recreational activities. With its historical significance and landmarks, lively cultural offerings, and wide variety of atmospheres, Philadelphia is the perfect place to call home for work and play.

The University offers a competitive benefits package that includes excellent healthcare and tuition benefits for employees and their families, generous retirement benefits, a wide variety of professional development opportunities, supportive work and family benefits, a wealth of health and wellness programs and resources, and much more.

Posted Job Title

Senior Enterprise Storage Engineer

Job Profile Title

Systems Administrator Senior

Job Description Summary

Information Systems & Computing (ISC) is the University of Pennsylvania’s central IT organization, providing the core network, data, voice, video, and enterprise application infrastructure and services upon which Penn’s numerous Schools and Centers build their unique tools and capabilities.

ISC’s 300-plus employees work closely with the University’s IT organizations in order to create, deliver and support products and services that help Schools and Centers operate efficiently and effectively. We strive to be easy to work with, and to serve as a trusted advisor to Penn’s IT community, faculty, staff and students in support of an environment of discovery and progress.

ISC’s focus on customer service and the high-quality, cost-effective, reliable implementation of modern IT solutions advances the mission of the University, as well as that of each individual School and Center. At Penn, technological freedom and departmental autonomy represent dearly held core values. ISC supports those ideas by providing foundational services and cogent counsel, empowering individuals and departments to employ their distinct strengths in support of their goals.

Learn more about us by visiting https://www.isc.upenn.edu/about or www.linkedin.com/company/penn-information-systems-computing/.

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. This role serves as the technical owner of a large-scale NetApp storage environment and associated AWS Storage Gateway infrastructure, ensuring high availability, performance, and data integrity across university systems.

This is a senior-level, lead position requiring deep expertise, sound judgment, and the ability to operate independently with minimal oversight. The ideal candidate brings a strategic mindset, strong operational discipline, and a proven track record managing mission-critical storage systems in complex environments.

Job Responsibilities

• Serves as the primary technical owner of the University’s NetApp storage infrastructure, responsible for the design, implementation, operation, and continuous improvement of scalable and resilient storage solutions.
• Manages the day-to-day administration of NetApp 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.
• Maintains and optimizes the AWS Storage Gateway, supporting hybrid cloud integration and enabling reliable data movement between on-premises and cloud platforms.
• 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 primarily leveraging NetApp and cloud storage technologies such as AWS Storage Gateway.
• 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 related to storage infrastructure, including Ethernet, Fibre Channel, and multipathing technologies.
• Experience with scripting and automation tools such as PowerShell, Python, or Ansible.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, communication, and technical documentation skills.

Strongly preferred:

• Expertise across one or more leading storage vendors such as Dell EMC, Pure Storage, HPE, IBM, Hitachi, or similar OEM solutions.
• Experience with hybrid cloud storage architectures and cloud-integrated storage services including AWS storage technologies.
• Experience supporting virtualization platforms, enterprise backup solutions, and automation-driven infrastructure operations.