Compute Platform Engineer Entry - Storage Specialist

SMUD•Sacramento, CA

14d•$84,490 - $111,883•Hybrid

About The Position

SMUD's IT Infrastructure Platform Services department is hiring for a Storage Infrastructure Engineer for its Compute Platform Engineering team. The team is responsible for architecting, deploying and managing compute & storage infrastructure for enterprise applications. As a member of the Compute Platform Engineering team, the Compute Platform Engineer - Storage Specialist position plays a key role and will help deliver innovative storage solutions to our customers and business partners. This specialist will cover administrative duties such as architecting, provisioning, monitoring, upgrading, and capacity planning for SMUD’s enterprise storage environment, storage area network (SAN), and NAS Infrastructure. The incumbent will also cover additional infrastructure technologies, such as Server Virtualization, x86 Hardware Infrastructure, Server OS Management, Azure, and Containerization.

Requirements

High school diploma or equivalent.
At least one (1+) year experience working in information technology and/or a business environment.
Fundamentals of computer programming, hardware and software including Microsoft Office products; basic troubleshooting methods and techniques.
Communicate effectively; work as a team member; assimilate into the work environment; learn the requirements of the position.

Nice To Haves

BA/BS degree from an accredited college or university majoring in Computer Science, MIS, or related field or equivalent.
Experience with Block (SAN) and File (NFS/SMB) storage solutions.
Relevant industry certifications such as storage, compute, or cloud certifications.
Experience with infrastructure as code (IaC), scripting, or automation.
Experience working with servers, virtual machines, containers, and storage solutions.

Responsibilities

Serves in a support role on multi-departmental networking computer projects with planning, designing, developing, implementing, and maintaining a network infrastructure including backup and recovery, physical and logical network design, network topology, network architecture, security architecture, and corporate server architecture; assisting in identifying and defining corporate level network computing projects; defining functional system requirements and specifications; developing technical standards and procedures; developing the system design; developing system and user acceptance tests; installing and integrating systems; performing post-implementation reviews; and providing technical consultation and solutions for technical issues.
Supports assessing the need for new hardware and software systems, upgrades and modifications by evaluating the effectiveness of the current systems; evaluating networking operating system software and related hardware performance and capacity utilizing software and hardware tools; conducting feasibility studies; defining user and system requirements; preparing procurement and bid documents; designing modifications; addressing integration issues; and implementing new software/modifications.
Supports the overall effectiveness of using the network infrastructure by developing technical expertise on network systems; providing network consultation; solving a variety of networking design, operational and maintenance problems; troubleshooting user obstacles; and providing 24-hour on call support to departments.
Assists in planning, reviewing and conducting work activities and researching required project information associated with department internal/external projects in accordance with established task objectives and schedule as outlined in the project plan/contract.
Performs other related duties as needed to include working outside of typical business hours when necessary.