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The Principal Storage & Disaster Recovery Engineer serves as the technical authority for enterprise storage, data protection, and disaster recovery architecture across Hybrid Cloud, Edge, and datacenter environments. This role is accountable for the design, implementation, and optimization of storage platforms that support mission critical clinical systems, enterprise workloads, analytics platforms, and emerging AI data pipelines.
Operating across AWS, Azure, Rackspace hosted datacenters, and Edge deployments within hospitals and clinics, this role ensures storage and recovery solutions are highly available, scalable, secure, and cost optimized, while meeting healthcare regulatory and operational requirements.
The role partners closely with Cloud Architecture, Infrastructure Engineering, Data & AI teams, Security, and vendors to define standards, lead complex initiatives, and continuously evolve Ochsner's storage and disaster recovery capabilities

The Principal Storage & Disaster Recovery Engineer leads the architecture, engineering, and lifecycle management of enterprise storage and data protection solutions across Hybrid Cloud and onpremises environments. The role provides deep technical leadership in building resilient, scalable, and costeffective storage and recovery platforms supporting clinical systems, data platforms, and AIadjacent workloads.

This position spans AWS and Azure cloud storage services, Dell and NetApp enterprise storage platforms, object storage systems, Nutanix environments, and Rackspace datacenter infrastructure. The Principal Engineer defines storage and DR strategy, leads complex implementations, establishes design standards, and ensures alignment with enterprise architecture, security, compliance, and operational best practices.

Education

Required

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
  or
• Equivalent combination of education and extensive handson experience

Preferred

• Master's degree in a related technical discipline

Work Experience

Required

• 10+ years of experience in storage engineering, infrastructure engineering, or related disciplines
• 5+ years designing and implementing enterprisescale storage and data protection solutions
• Demonstrated experience operating across multicloud and onpremises environments

Preferred

• Experience in healthcare or other highly regulated industries
• Experience supporting Epic, imaging platforms, or largescale clinical data systems
• Experience leading hybridcloud transformations and data migrations

Certifications (Preferred)

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional or Storage/Data Specialty
• Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert
• NetApp Certified Data Administrator
• Dell Technologies (EMC) Proven Professional certifications
• Nutanix Certified Professional or Advanced certifications
• Backup, disaster recovery, or data management certifications (e.g., Cohesity)

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Deep expertise in enterprise storage platforms, including NetApp and Dell (e.g., Isilon, PowerFlex)
• Strong knowledge of AWS storage services (S3, EBS, EFS, FSx)
• Strong knowledge of Azure storage services (Blob Storage, Azure Files, Managed Disks, Data Lake)
• Experience designing and operating object storage solutions across cloud and onpremises environments
• Strong understanding of hybrid storage architectures spanning cloud, edge, and datacenter
• Expertise in backup, replication, and disaster recovery architectures; Cohesity experience strongly preferred
• Advanced skills in performance tuning, capacity planning, and cost optimization
• Familiarity with data architecture concepts, lifecycle management, tiering, and archival strategies
• Awareness of AI and analytics data structures, including largescale ingestion, retention, and access patterns
• Strong understanding of encryption, security, and healthcare compliance requirements
• Proven ability to design highly available, resilient, and recoverable storage solutions
• Exceptional troubleshooting and root cause analysis skills
• Ability to lead technical design discussions and influence enterprise architecture decisions
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including executivelevel communication

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the enterprise authority for storage and disaster recovery architecture
• Define, standardize, and evolve storage and DR designs across AWS, Azure, Edge, and Rackspace environments
• Design and implement scalable, resilient, and costoptimized storage solutions for clinical and enterprise workloads
• Architect and govern backup, replication, and disaster recovery strategies across hybrid environments
• Lead storage and recovery architecture for major initiatives, including Epic migration, cloud adoption, and infrastructure transformation
• Design storage patterns supporting analytics, data platforms, and AIadjacent workloads
• Establish enterprise standards, reference architectures, and best practices
• Lead integration and lifecycle management of NetApp, Dell, Nutanix, and object storage platforms
• Optimize performance, cost, and capacity across all environments
• Partner with Cloud, Infrastructure, Security, and Data teams to ensure endtoend alignment
• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and escalation support to engineering teams
• Reduce dependency on external vendors through internal capability development
• Support data migration, validation, and cutover planning
• Ensure compliance with healthcare regulatory and data protection standards

The above statements describe the general nature and level of work only. They are not an exhaustive list of all required responsibilities, duties, and skills. Other duties may be added, or this description amended at any time.

Remains knowledgeable on current federal, state and local laws, accreditation standards or regulatory agency requirements that apply to the assigned area of responsibility and ensures compliance with all such laws, regulations and standards.

This employer maintains and complies with its Compliance & Privacy Program and Standards of Conduct, including the immediate reporting of any known or suspected unethical or questionable behaviors or conduct; patient/employee safety, patient privacy, and/or other compliance-related concerns.

The employer 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, protected veteran status, or disability status.

Physical and Environmental Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Sedentary Work - Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally (Occasionally: activity or condition exists up to 1/3 of the time) and/or a negligible amount of force frequently (Frequently: activity or condition exists from 1/3 to 2/3 of the time) to lift, carry, push, pull, or otherwise move objects. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time but may involve walking or standing for brief periods of time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally, and all other sedentary criteria are met.

Normal routine involves no exposure to blood, body fluid or tissue and as part of their employment, incumbents are not called upon to perform or assist in emergency care or first aid.

The incumbent has no occupational risk for exposure to communicable diseases.

Because the incumbent works within a healthcare setting, there may be occupational risk for exposure to hazardous medications or hazardous waste within the environment through receipt, transport, storage, preparation, dispensing, administration, cleaning and/or disposal of contaminated waste. The risk level of exposure may increase depending on the essential job duties of the role.

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