Storage Engineer: Rady Children's Hospital - San Diego

Rady Children's Hospital - San Diego, ranked by Parent Magazine as one of the 25 best children's hospitals in the country, has embarked upon one of the most amazing and ambitious new projects in our 55-year history - a new Patient Care Pavilion scheduled to open in the Fall of 2010.

As the region's only pediatric trauma center and the only area hospital dedicated solely to pediatric care, we are committed to creating a stronger future for children in San Diego and everywhere.

Join Rady Children's and reach new heights in your career!

JOB SUMMARY:

Storage Engineer

JOB SUMMARY:

Under the general supervision of the Manager, Infrastructure Services, and in collaboration with IT Department Management, technical Enterprise Architect, the Information Security Office, and the Lead Storage Engineer, the Storage Engineer is the technical expert involved in planning, implementing, administering, and managing storage networking and operations. Responsible for storage planning and forecasting; architecting storage layouts and networks; planning storage connectivity; developing storage policies for Enterprise Architecture (EA); storage product evaluations; data access performance tuning; data replication and disaster recovery procedures; configuration item cataloging; data archiving (including all storage tiers and tape solutions); lifecycle management of email, structured and other unstructured content; and storage inventory maintenance for both array-based and file-based storage systems.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

Minimum of 2 years of experience directly involved in the maintenance and administration of storage area network equipment and technology.

Demonstrated enterprise storage networking skills in architecting, implementing, monitoring and administrating multi-tier storage area networks, file-based storage solutions, information lifecycle management, structured and unstructured data archiving, records management, and tape system administration.

SNIA Certified Professional (SCP) or ability to successfully take the SCP certification exam upon assumption of the Lead Storage Engineer position.

Knowledge of Windows and Unix servers, operating systems, and file systems.

Knowledge of SAN technologies and concepts including fabric and host switches and routers, bus adapters, and interconnect hardware and cabling.

Knowledge of fiber channel and SCSI protocols, RAID sets, disk drives, and data striping and mirroring options.

Familiarity and experience with data replication, tape backup, data archiving, and disaster recovery concepts and procedures.

Familiarity and experience with data movement using block-level copies (snapshots), array- and host-based replication, and file system copies.

Familiarity and experience with SAN performance monitoring, tuning, and hierarchical, multi-level data storage management.

Familiarity and experience with SAN problem troubleshooting, tracking and resolution.

Familiarity and experience with managing, tracking, and updating SAN hardware microcode, firmware, and software patches.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

Bachelor's degree, preferably in Information Systems, or equivalent working experience.

SNIA Certified Systems Engineer (SCSE) or SNIA Certified Architect (SCA) certification or ability to take the certification exam upon assumption of the Lead Storage Engineer position.

ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) process experienced preferred.

EOE/M/F/D/V