Sr. Storage and Data Engineer

Ochsner Clinic Foundation•New Orleans, LA

About The Position

We've made a lot of progress since opening the doors in 1942, but one thing has never changed - our commitment to serve, heal, lead, educate, and innovate. We believe that every award earned, every record broken and every patient helped is because of the dedicated employees who fill our hallways. At Ochsner, whether you work with patients every day or support those who do, you are making a difference and that matters. Come make a difference at Ochsner Health and discover your future today! The Storage and Data Engineer serves as the enterprise lead for large scale storage and data migrations to AWS, Azure, and Rackspace. This role is responsible for planning, executing, and validating end to end migration activities using enterprise grade tools and native cloud services while ensuring minimal downtime and full data integrity. Following migration, the engineer will own long term storage operations across Rackspace private cloud, AWS, Azure, and remaining on premises systems. The position is both migration focused and operationally focused to ensure smooth transition into steady state run operations with strong resilience, compliance, and lifecycle management The engineer will support Dell, NetApp, and cloud native platforms while enabling AI and analytics workloads across multi cloud data lakes. This includes engagement with AWS S3, Azure Blob Storage, Azure Data Lake, Snowflake storage patterns, and AI data enablement services. The role also assumes primary ownership of Dell PPDM and Data Domain backup operations across hybrid cloud workloads.

Requirements

Extensive experience leading enterprise storage migrations using DataSync SnapMirror Azure Data Box XCP and similar tools
Strong experience operating storage in Rackspace private cloud or similar environments
Expertise with NetApp ONTAP Dell PowerScale PowerStore PowerMax Pure Storage and replication technologies
Proficiency with AWS S3 Azure Blob Azure Data Lake FSx and cloud storage services
Experience supporting Snowflake storage usage and cloud based ingest patterns
Strong Dell PPDM and Data Domain administration experience
Experience designing and validating DR recovery patterns for large storage environments
Competency in Python SQL infrastructure as code and automation tooling
Knowledge of IAM encryption key management secure connectivity and audit controls
Bachelor degree in Computer Science Engineering or equivalent experience

Nice To Haves

Experience supporting storage for EMR workloads in AWS
Experience supporting imaging workloads and large media sets in Azure
Knowledge of AI dataset preparation vector storage and analytics pipelines
Healthcare data experience

Responsibilities

Lead Storage and Data Migrations to AWS Azure and Rackspace
Lead planning and execution of enterprise scale storage migrations with minimal downtime
Use tools including AWS DataSync NetApp SnapMirror Azure Data Box Dell EMC XCP and vendor native replication technologies
Execute cutover planning validation and rollback procedures for clinical and enterprise workloads
Ensure migration activities align to resiliency compliance and audit requirements
Partner with Cloud Architecture and Application teams to coordinate workload transitions and data validation
Long Term Rackspace Storage Ownership
Own capacity performance lifecycle and daily operations of all storage hosted in Rackspace private cloud
Manage storage presented to Epic EMR platforms and related workloads
Maintain replication protection and multi site resilience within the Rackspace managed environment
Optimize storage configurations for cost performance and long term maintainability
Backup and Protection Ownership Across Hybrid Cloud
Serve as the operational owner for Dell PPDM and Data Domain platforms
Manage backup strategy scheduling and restore testing across on premises Rackspace AWS and Azure workloads
Ensure all clinical and enterprise systems remain protected during and after migration activities
Validate backup integrity perform periodic restores and maintain compliance with retention policies
Multi Cloud Storage Engineering and Integration
Engineer cloud native storage solutions including AWS S3 Azure Blob Azure Data Lake FSx for NetApp ONTAP and Azure Files
Support EMR storage patterns in AWS including S3 and EBS
Support imaging workloads and large media sets in Azure including Blob tiers and ADLS Gen2
Design and operate cross cloud ingestion and replication patterns
Align architecture between Dell storage NetApp ONTAP and cloud storage services
Operational Excellence in Steady State Run Operations
Monitor performance availability capacity and lifecycle of all storage platforms across Rackspace AWS Azure and on premises
Conduct regular DR validation including failover testing replication health and recovery runbook updates
Manage patching firmware and configuration governance for all storage systems
Maintain compliance with HIPAA HITRUST and internal security controls
Implement tagging auditing logging and cost governance across multi cloud storage footprints
Manage Current and Future Storage Platforms
Support existing Dell PowerScale PowerStore PowerMax and Pure Storage platforms
Lead planning for future NetApp ONTAP adoption and cloud integration
Ensure smooth transitions from legacy to modern platforms with no clinical disruption
Maintain consistent operational standards across diverse storage technologies
AI and Data Platform Enablement
Prepare storage layers for AI analytics and RAG workloads
Support AI platforms including Amazon Bedrock SageMaker Azure OpenAI Service and Azure AI Studio
Collaborate with AI and Data teams to optimize storage for embeddings parquet data and large unstructured datasets