Systems Engineer, Information Resources

Why UT Southwestern?

With over 75 years of excellence in Dallas‑Fort Worth, Texas, UT Southwestern is committed to excellence, innovation, teamwork, and compassion. As a world‑renowned medical and research center, we strive to provide the best possible care, resources, and benefits for our valued employees. Ranked as the number 1 hospital in Dallas‑Fort Worth according to U.S. News & World Report, we invest in you with opportunities for career growth and development to align with your future goals.

Our highly competitive benefits package offers healthcare, PTO and paid holidays, on‑site childcare, wage, merit increases and so much more. We invite you to be a part of the UT Southwestern team where you’ll discover a culture of teamwork, professionalism, and a rewarding career!

The Storage & Virtualization Engineer plays a critical role in ensuring the reliability, performance, and security of the organization’s enterprise storage and virtualization infrastructure. This position serves as the primary subject‑matter expert for large‑scale Isilon/Power Scale environments, enterprise SAN arrays, and Fiber Channel fabrics, while also providing secondary support for VMware compute clusters. The engineer is responsible for capacity planning, performance optimization, Zero Trust security enforcement, and end‑to‑end data protection.

This role requires deep technical expertise, strong analytical skills, and the ability to operate in a fast‑paced, mission‑critical environment.

Please note, this position does not support H1B visa sponsorship.

• PPO medical plan, available day one at no cost for full‑time employee‑only coverage
• 100% coverage for preventive healthcare—no copay
• Paid Time Off, available day one
• Retirement Programs through the Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS)
• Paid Parental Leave Benefit
• Wellness programs
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Qualified Employer
• Learn more about these and other UTSW employee benefits!

Experience and Education

• Education:
  
  Bachelor’s Degree with major coursework in computer science, math, information systems or another related field. An equivalent combination of education and/or directly related experience may be substituted in lieu of the stated requirements.
• Experience:
  
  2 years of experience in a field directly related to operating systems and systems administration, including experience working with and maintaining multiple server hosts, in a combined environment and experience with project management phases and methodologies as it relates to assigned projects and tasks.
• Licenses and
  
  Certifications:
  
  Certification in at least one relevant operating system or associated technology.

• Works with current, commercial‑grade server hardware, both for physical and virtual hosted environments.
• Identifies and proposes innovative and creative solutions that enhance or increase the efficiency of the services provided by Information Resources to the campus community.
• Performs network troubleshooting at the server host level, using associated tools, i.e. network traces.
• Works with server hosts running in a combined directory services environment, and handles associated share/folder/file configurations and rights assignments.
• Works with operating system security components, both identifying potential vulnerabilities and remediating said vulnerabilities where applicable.
• Analyzes and remediates problems involving server hardware, operating systems, database systems, applications, or other related technologies associated with the server host system, including troubleshooting hardware and software issues using appropriate tools and utilities.
• Collaborates with system users and engineers to make recommendations, receive feedback, and test additions and/or enhancements to the server host environment so that the systems and any associated/hosted applications or virtual environments are updated, tested, developed, and implemented as required.
• Proposes policies for server hardware, operating system and associated storage layout and design; works in tandem with the scientific and technical community using knowledge of future trends to…