Director Storage Engineering

Fidelity Investments•Merrimack, NH

55d•Hybrid

About The Position

This Director of Distributed Storage Engineering role spans across multiple product areas with a focus on delivering solutions to meet the demands of business-critical workloads supporting all areas of the firm's financial services. You will work with technology leadership and architects to define target architecture, establish product roadmaps, and deliver high performing, cost effective and highly reliable solutions to meet the demands of this large financial institution. As a leading member of this team you will work to evaluate business and technology strategy and direction and deliver best in class capabilities for our customers. You will be directly involved in defining vendor strategies and business cases that clearly present technological capabilities along with costs to enable executive leadership to make solid and fact-based business decisions. You will influence the direction of distributed storage services. You will be required to present these strategies clearly to executive management and regularly report on the progress of critical projects. An ideal candidate will have a solid computer science background across distributed compute and storage. Networking knowledge would be an additional skill that would enable you to stand out among the candidates. You should be very familiar with industry standards and direction. A deep understanding of multiple vendor capabilities in storage services is required. You should have a good understanding of budget processes as well as the creation of business cases to justify the acquisition of new technologies. Knowledge of cloud computing would be another differentiator. A bachelor's degree in computer science or similar discipline is preferred but not required. A strong distributed storage background as well as server experience is required via a combination of the following experiences: Proven track record of distributed storage engineering including product selection, implementation and ongoing management of critical platforms Experience supporting multiple block storage array types and vendors Experience managing large Fiber Channel Storage Area Networks (SAN) Experience supporting iSCSI protocol for large block storage arrays Critical troubleshooting skills and the ability to identify root cause for storage incidents Strong capacity management background as well as performance troubleshooting skills Possess a strong security first mindset ensuring critical systems are compliant and secure

Requirements

Deep understand of storage technologies (SAN/Block, NAS, Object, Cloud Storage)
Significant practical experience with storage protocols (Fiber Channel, iSCSI, NVMe)
Ability to manage technology lifecycle ensuring software/hardware currency and compliance
Strong coding skills enabling the automation of basic and complex operations
Experience with one or more general purpose programming languages
Ability to manage vendor relationships and guide product development
Ability to provide leadership and crisis management during critical incidents
Strong verbal, written and presentation skills
Ability to clearly articulate updates to executive manage while still possessing deep technical knowledge enabling detailed discussions with vendors and other support teams
Thrives in an Agile environment: ability to prioritize the work, ensure all are contributing appropriately, and ultimately focus and finish critical initiatives
Proven track record of distributed storage engineering including product selection, implementation and ongoing management of critical platforms
Experience supporting multiple block storage array types and vendors
Experience managing large Fiber Channel Storage Area Networks (SAN)
Experience supporting iSCSI protocol for large block storage arrays
Critical troubleshooting skills and the ability to identify root cause for storage incidents
Strong capacity management background as well as performance troubleshooting skills
Possess a strong security first mindset ensuring critical systems are compliant and secure

Nice To Haves

Networking knowledge
Knowledge of cloud computing
A bachelor's degree in computer science or similar discipline

Responsibilities

supporting an international team of engineers focused on delivering best in class distributed storage capabilities
drive strategic decisions for the technology that supports our financial customers
deliver on critical goals laid out for the organization through very close coordination and collaboration with leadership, product management, architecture and other support teams
mentoring a team of engineers and enabling technical growth
guiding the team in the development of roadmaps
collaborating across the organization to develop plans to implement the strategy laid out

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