Posted Job Title

Senior Enterprise Storage Engineer

Job Profile Title

Systems Administrator Senior

Job Description Summary

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 Description

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. 

Job Location - City, State

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Department / School

Information Systems and Computing

Pay Range

$84,961.00 - $125,000.00 Annual Rate

Salary offers are made based on the candidate’s qualifications, experience, skills, and education as they directly relate to the requirements of the position, and in alignment with salary ranges based on external market data for the job’s level. Internal organization and peer data at Penn are also considered.

University Benefits

• Health, Life, and Flexible Spending Accounts: Penn offers comprehensive medical, prescription, behavioral health, dental, vision, and life insurance benefits to protect you and your family’s health and welfare. You can also use flexible spending accounts to pay for eligible health care and dependent care expenses with pre-tax dollars.

• Tuition: Take advantage of Penn's exceptional tuition benefits. You, your spouse, and your dependent children can get tuition assistance here at Penn. Your dependent children are also eligible for tuition assistance at other institutions.

• Retirement: Penn offers generous retirement plans to help you save for your future. Penn’s Basic, Matching, and Supplemental retirement plans allow you to save for retirement on a pre-tax or Roth basis. Choose from a wide variety of investment options through TIAA and Vanguard.

• Time Away from Work: Penn provides you with a substantial amount of time away from work during the course of the year. This allows you to relax, take vacations, attend to personal affairs, recover from illness or injury, spend time with family—whatever your personal needs may be.

• Long-Term Care Insurance: In partnership with Genworth Financial, Penn offers faculty and staff (and your eligible family members) long-term care insurance to help you cover some of the costs of long-term care services received at home, in the community or in a nursing facility. If you apply when you’re newly hired, you won’t have to provide proof of good health or be subject to underwriting requireme