Chief Engineer; SAN infrastructure & Data Protection platform

Chief Engineer

U.S. Bank is seeking a motivated Chief Engineer with strong leadership abilities to contribute toward the success of our technology initiatives. Provides a combination of technical and business leadership while being the primary trusted and capable owner of one or more high priority, high visibility, complex focused initiatives that typically cross multiple technology and business line areas. Will typically have a small number of direct reports (e.g., an architect, systems analyst, etc.)

and provide guidance to a larger community including affected systems, program management, and test leadership.

Responsibilities include:

• Provide senior technical leadership and strategic direction for Enterprise Storage Architecture, SAN Infrastructure, NAS Platforms, and Data Protection Technologies supporting critical business operations.
• Define and maintain enterprise architecture standards, engineering roadmaps, and technology strategies for storage, data protection, and infrastructure resiliency platforms.
• Lead the design, implementation, and optimization of large-scale Dell Power Max, Net App, and associated enterprise storage environments.
• Provide architectural leadership for Brocade and Cisco SAN Fabric infrastructure, ensuring scalability, performance, availability, and operational stability.
• Serve as the highest-level technical escalation point for complex storage, SAN, replication, backup, recovery, and infrastructure issues.
• Drive storage platform lifecycle management, modernization initiatives, hardware refresh programs, and strategic migration efforts across enterprise environments.
• Partner with infrastructure, security, operations, cloud, and application teams to ensure recovery readiness, business continuity, cyber resiliency, and disaster recovery objectives are achieved.
• Establish engineering standards, operational best practices, and governance processes to ensure long-term viability, reliability, and supportability of storage and data protection platforms.

Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in business, MIS, engineering, computer science, mathematics, any science, or equivalent work experience
- Eight or more years of experience in delivering software-based solutions

Preferred Skills/Experience

• Expert knowledge of Enterprise Storage Architecture, including design, implementation, and support of large-scale mission-critical storage environments.
• Advanced experience with Dell Power Max enterprise storage platforms, including performance optimization, replication, provisioning, and lifecycle management.
• Expertise in Ever Pure storage technologies within large-scale enterprise environments
• Deep expertise in Brocade SAN Fabrics, Cisco SAN Infrastructure, Fibre Channel networking, zoning, fabric design, troubleshooting, and capacity planning.
• Strong experience with Net App Storage Platforms, including NAS architecture, storage administration, data management, and operational support.
• Hands-on expertise with Data Protection Technologies, including Cohesity, Data Domain, backup, recovery, replication, and disaster recovery solutions.
• Experience supporting and engineering ECS (Elastic Cloud Storage).
• Strong understanding of operational resiliency, business continuity, recovery readiness, cyber recovery, disaster recovery planning, and infrastructure risk management.
• Proven ability to provide technical leadership for enterprise modernization initiatives, platform migrations, engineering governance, and long-term infrastructure strategy.

Location expectations

This role requires working from a U.S. Bank location three (3) or more days per week.

If there's anything we can do to accommodate a disability during any portion of the application or hiring process, please refer to our disability accommodations for applicants.

Benefits:

Our approach to benefits and total rewards considers our team members' whole selves and what may be needed to thrive in and outside work. That's why our benefits are designed to help you and your family boost your health, protect your financial security and give you peace of mind. Our benefits include the following:

• Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)
• Basic term and optional term life insurance
• Short-term and long-term disability
• Pregnancy disability and parental leave
• 401(k) and employer-funded retirement plan
• Paid vacation (from two to five weeks depending on salary grade and tenure)
• Up to 11 paid holiday opportunities
• Adoption assistance
• Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 80 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law

U.S. Bank is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or veteran status, and other factors protected under applicable law.

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