Systems Engineer III

Overview

Are you passionate about building resilient, scalable infrastructure that protects critical business data and services? Do you enjoy solving complex storage, backup, and hybrid cloud challenges while driving operational excellence and innovation?

Lexis Nexis® Risk Solutions provides customers with solutions and decision tools that combine public and industry specific content with advanced technology and analytics to assist them in evaluating and predicting risk and enhancing operational efficiency. We use the power of data and advanced analytics to help our customers make better, timelier decisions. By bringing clarity to information, we ultimately help make communities safer, insurance rates more accurate, commerce more transparent, business decisions easier and processes more efficient.

The Data Management Team owns the design, implementation, operation, and continuous improvement of LNRS enterprise-wide storage and data protection capabilities. This encompasses mission‑critical infrastructure spanning on‑premises and colocation storage arrays (Dell Unity, Power Store, Power Scale, Power Vault platforms), enterprise backup and recovery solutions (Commvault, Avamar, Data Domain) with immutable/WORM storage for ransomware resilience and compliance, Fiber Channel SAN fabric, zoning, cabling, and data center hardware infrastructure, hybrid cloud storage and backup services (AWS and Azure) supporting migrations and modernization, automation, scripting (Bash/Python/Terraform), monitoring, reporting, and operational excellence initiatives.

The Senior III, Systems Engineer position exists to provide direct input to project plans, schedules, and methodology in the operation and maintenance of multiple system environments, with a strong emphasis on enterprise data storage, backup and recovery solutions, and hybrid cloud infrastructure in support of the data management team. The candidate responds to system management alerts to handle system/operations exceptions within the assigned enterprise systems of product offerings.

This position is also responsible for triage change management support and contributes to strategic planning and operational excellence for data protection and storage optimization.

• Provide strategic input to project plans, schedules, and operational methodologies for the maintenance, optimization, and evolution of enterprise storage, backup/recovery, and hybrid cloud environments supporting the data management team.
• Monitor system management alerts and respond promptly to handle storage, backup, infrastructure, and data protection exceptions, ensuring high availability, data integrity, and minimal business impact.
• Diagnose complex system, storage performance, and data protection problems using logs, traces, performance metrics (I/O, latency, throughput), and advanced diagnostic tools.
• Manage and administer enterprise storage arrays (Dell Unity, Power Store, Power Scale, and equivalent platforms), including provisioning, volume/LUN management, replication, snapshots, tiering, and proactive capacity planning.
• Manage and administer enterprise backup and recovery solutions (Dell Avamar, Commvault, and cloud‑native services), including policy design, job scheduling, monitoring, success rate reporting, and regular restore testing/validation.
• Manage and administer Brocade fiber channel switches, including experience with data migrations and SANNav software. Switch CLI experience is a plus.
• Design, implement, and manage cloud storage and backup solutions on Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS), optimizing for performance, security, compliance, scalability, and cost efficiency.
• Develop, maintain, and optimize automation scripts, workflows, and infrastructure-as-code (IaC) solutions using Bash, Python, Terraform, and complementary tools to provision storage, automate backups, orchestrate data protection, and reduce manual effort.
• Implement and manage immutable storage technologies, WORM (Write Once Read Many) configurations, and object‑lock policies to protect critical data against ransomware, accidental deletion, and to…