Storage & Data Protection Platform Engineer

Overview

Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) is seeking a skilled and experienced Storage & Data Protection Platform Engineer to join our Infrastructure Services team. The successful candidate will be responsible for installing, configuring, maintaining, upgrading, and otherwise supporting the University's mission-critical enterprise platforms and infrastructure, ensuring the highest levels of performance, availability, and security throughout VCU's robust private cloud environment, which spans multiple enterprise data center facilities, as well as the University's ever-developing and -expanding public and hybrid cloud infrastructure.

All full-time University staff are eligible for VCU's robust benefits package that includes: comprehensive health benefits, paid annual and holiday leave granted up front, generous tuition benefit, retirement planning and savings options, tax-deferred annuity and cash match programs, employee discounts, well-being resources, abundant opportunities for career development and advancement, and more.

VCU is also committed to hiring veterans! The University will include a veteran's period(s) of military service in calculations of annual leave accrual rate. This may provide veterans with an increased leave accrual.

Learn more about VCU's benefits here .

Key Responsibilities

• Infrastructure Management. Participate in the design, implementation, and management of scalable, reliable, and secure private, public, and hybrid cloud infrastructure solutions to support mission-critical University applications and services.
  
• Data Protection and Storage. Design, implement, and maintain enterprise storage area network (SAN), network attached storage (NAS), and data protection platforms, ensuring data integrity, availability, and security.
  
• System Administration. Perform advanced system administration tasks, including installation, configuration, and maintenance of servers, storage appliances, and fibre channel network switches.
  
• Automation and Scripting. Contribute to the development and maintenance of automation scripts and tools to streamline operations, improve efficiency, and ensure the consistent and effective configuration of supported solutions.
  
• Monitoring and Performance Tuning. Participate in the implementation of monitoring solutions to proactively identify and resolve performance issues, enabling maximal uptime and optimal system performance.
  
• Security Compliance. Collaborate with the University Information Security team and support VCU security policies and industry best practices, including regular security assessments and vulnerability management / remediation.
  
• Disaster Recovery. Assist with crafting and contributing to the continuous development and maintenance of disaster recovery plans and procedures to ensure continuity of University operations. Support the testing and successful execution of these plans when called upon to do so.
  
• Technical Support and Assistance. Provide consultative and technical support to the user community to ensure problem resolution, system / data access, and optimal system performance. Provide technical advice and expertise to customer departments.
  
• Collaboration. Build strong professional relationships and work closely with cross-functional teams, including application developers, system owners, server operating system and data center network engineers, and information security analysts, to deliver integrated solutions.
  
• Technical Knowledge Expertise and Training. Maintain a current level of knowledge on topics within the computer industry, including but not limited to attending classes, seminars and vendor presentations, reading manuals and trade journals, use of the Internet, and conversing with peers. Provide training and documentation to transfer this knowledge to other team members.
  
• Documentation. Create, maintain, and adhere to comprehensive documentation for infrastructure configurations, processes, and procedures. Utilize established VCU Technology Services, Infrastructure Services, University Computer Center, and Enterprise Platform team processes and tools for project management, technology change management, incident reporting, and more as an integral part of all support activities.
  

This position is eligible for a Flexible Work Arrangement [ link ] as a privilege contingent upon satisfactory job performance and other factors, enabling a mix of both remote and on-site work at VCU campus locations in downtown Richmond, Virginia. Although many responsibilities can be performed remotely, the ability to be present on-site, as necessary, is essential to supporting platforms and infrastructure in this enterprise data center environment.