Storage Lead

Ampcus Inc. is a certified global provider of a broad range of Technology and Business consulting services. We are in search of a highly motivated candidate to join our talented Team.

Job Title: Storage Lead

Location(s): Chicago, IL
(Remote)

Job Description
The Lead-Backup and Storage will be responsible for defining the roadmap, implementation and operations of Backup and Storage. Will review current footprint and implementation and create a roadmap and plan for improvement and changes for on-premises and public cloud.

• Expertise in large scale architecture and deployment of enterprise backup and storage solutions across multiple data centers, sites, and public cloud.
• Experience with back up strategy in public cloud such as Azure and AWS.
• Experience working with managed service providers.
• Experience in designing storage technology and integrating various cloud storage options.
• Experience in capacity planning and perform analysis of current landscape of storage workloads and storage pools.
• 10 + years of experience in architecting and implementing enterprise scale back up and storage solutions.
• Proven experience includes SAN-based block storage, object storage, and file storage.
• Good understanding of physical tape libraries and experience with security key managers
• Ability to work across the infrastructure team to create vision and roadmap for various infrastructure teams (VMware, Network, Linux, Windows, Unix, etc.)
• Ability to author and implement basic scripting and coding to automate technical needs such as to move files, backup, create configuration, or other tasks
• Good Understanding of Shell/Python and Ansible scripting.

• Oversee the design, provisioning, and management of ~40+ PBs of data storage supporting clinical, research and administrative systems across multiple geographical sites.
• Lead and coordinate the engineering phases of storage solution delivery including planning, design, buildout, testing, procurement, and transition to operational support
• Experience in managing enterprise storage solutions including Dell EMC Powermax, Isilon, PURE, Brocade SAN, Avamar Data Protection and Data Domain.
• Design and develop basic integrated solutions to meet business requirements or enhance performance of Data Protection solutions (Dell EMC Avamar, Networker, Data Domain, ECS, Recover Point 4 VM, Power Protect Data Manager)
• Design robust storage and backup solutions to meet demanding organizational and application specific SLAs including, but not limited to, HA, RTO/RPO, offsite requirements and disaster recovery to datacenters or public cloud providers.
• Continuously develop technical subject matter expertise on established and emerging storage technologies as it relates to CIFS, NFS, SSD Storage, Storage Snapshots, Site Replication, and Data Mirroring.
• Streamline and automate existing storage administrative processes, improve reliability, and reduce the cost per gigabyte across multiple storage platforms
• Adhere to SOX, PCI, and other regulatory requirements as dictated
• Regularly review/implement advances in technology and industry best practices.
• Assists with preparation of operating and capital budgets following established guidelines and using benchmark data.
• Compare and contrast multiple vendor storage solutions in detailed proof of concept tests to identify superior solutions
• Engage customers (private cloud teams, game teams, SRE) to understand their challenges and collaborate to solve them in creative ways.

Ampcus is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veterans or individuals with disabilities.