Associate Director, IT Storage & Cloud Engineering - OIT

Emory University•Atlanta, GA

8h•Remote

About The Position

Be part of a leading academic medical center where your cloud and enterprise storage expertise helps advance patient care, drive groundbreaking research, and support world-class faculty. Emory University is seeking a passionate and forward-thinking engineer who thrives on designing, building, and optimizing reliable, scalable storage platforms across on-premises and cloud environments. In this role, you will architect and enhance storage and data protection solutions, collaborate closely with security and infrastructure partners, and provide technical leadership to a team of skilled engineers. You’ll tackle complex, high-impact challenges and play a key role in shaping Emory’s modern, hybrid storage roadmap.

Requirements

A bachelor's degree in IT or a related field and seven years of relevant IT experience including demonstrated technical expertise in specific IT areas, project management skills and lead or supervisory experience, OR an equivalent combination of education, training and experience.
Extensive experience in the implementation and production support of an enterprise system.

Nice To Haves

Demonstrated hands-on technical leadership—willing and able to engage directly with the technology to troubleshoot, validate designs, and partner with healthcare and university engineers on complex production strategy and deployments.
Demonstrated competence and strong working knowledge of storage and data protection in AWS (e.g., S3, EBS, FSx, AWS Backup, and Storage Gateway).
Demonstrated competence and strong working knowledge of storage and data protection in Azure (e.g., Azure Blob, Azure Disk, Azure File, Azure NetApp, Azure Backup concepts).
Ability to architect cost-effective and efficient data mobility patterns between on-prem resources and cloud providers developing hybrid data management approaches.
Deep expertise in enterprise data protection strategy and operations, including Dell/EMC Data Domain (PowerProtect) and related backup, replication, retention, and recovery practices—driving lifecycle governance aligned to business needs.
Deep expertise operating unstructured data platforms—especially Dell/EMC Isilon (PowerScale) — including cluster administration, performance troubleshooting, quota/snapshot strategy, capacity forecasting, and lifecycle/tiering design.
Strong consultative mindset with a track record of acting as a solutions partner with university and healthcare customers—bringing options, tradeoffs, and recommendations as well as leading the engineering team to fulfill those recommendations.Proactive, systems-level thinker who anticipates and mitigates storage and data protection risks, including recoverability, resiliency, and service continuity.
Experience evaluating and recommending modern storage and data protection solutions, including comparing platforms and emerging solutions (including cloud-based solutions) alongside traditional enterprise vendors (e.g., Dell/EMC) based on fit, cost, performance, and operational impact.
Experience with Globus and high-speed data movement architectures (endpoints, throughput optimization, and secure transfer workflows).

Responsibilities

Designs and manages operations, planning and development of the Emory Enterprise storage and critical infrastructure to include high performance computing and electronic medical records systems.
Ensures the infrastructure provides the centralized fiber attached (SAN) and network attached (NAS) storage critical to enterprise-wide applications and systems.
Owns the enterprise storage and data protection strategy and multi-year roadmap, including lifecycle management, capacity forecasting, technology refresh planning, and the evaluation of emerging solutions both on premise and in cloud-hosted environments.
Oversees storage-based offsite replication and the enterprise data protection infrastructure.
Manages people resources and processes to administer day-to-day operations.
Identifies individual and team skill gaps and developmental opportunities to facilitate career development.
Ensures direct and indirect reports have documented career goals and detailed plans for achieving these goals to develop these individuals professionally.
Conducts performance evaluations consistently and fairly to facilitate open communication and encourage continuous performance improvement.
Manages team compliance with division policies and procedures to meet ITIL and enterprise requirements and expectations.
Provides technical expertise to support team collaboration for resolving issues and meeting customer expectations.
Interacts with division resources to promote the department's role and to ensure adherence to IT governance and ITSM processes for achieving enterprise-wide efficiencies.
Evaluates and summarizes departmental metrics to measure performance and forecast future needs.
Conducts regular meetings with EHC IT staff to review and clarify current and future storage needs.
Acts as storage team project planning representative to provide technical feedback and to ensure storage team resources are available.
Interacts with University and Healthcare central IT, departments, and researchers to provide solutions to non-OIT organizations.
Provisions storage to maintain application availability.
Manages vendor breaks and fixes to maintain storage and application availability.
Monitors storage health to maintain application availability.
Monitors storage utilization to ensure storage inventory availability for routine application growth.
Monitors data protection operations and capacity to maintain application recovery options.
Conducts routine vendor meetings to maintain partnerships with the enterprise's major vendors. Negotiates storage purchases to achieve competitive pricing.
Performs other related responsibilities as assigned.