IT Storage Engineer

We are seeking a seasoned IT Storage Engineer with strong experience in Block and File Storage technologies to support our mission‑critical healthcare systems. The ideal candidate will have hands‑on expertise with IBM Flash System, Net App, Dell EMC, Pure Storage Products and Brocade, Cisco SAN Switches. This role is vital to ensuring the performance, availability, and security of storage systems that support patient care.

Key Responsibilities:

• Administer and maintain enterprise storage infrastructure supporting Electronic Health Records (EHR), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), PACS, and other healthcare applications.
• Manage and optimize IBM, Net App, Dell EMC and Pure Storage environments for high availability and performance.
• Configure and troubleshoot Brocade and Cisco SAN Directors/Switches, including zoning, fabric management, and diagnostics.
• Provision and map LUNs to physical and virtual hosts within enterprise SAN environments.
• Oversee NAS storage operations, including NFS/SMB shares, quotas, access controls, and integration with healthcare systems.
• Collaborate with clinical application teams, server, database and network administrators to support storage needs across the healthcare enterprise.
• Implement storage replication, snapshots, and backup integration.
• Monitor and analyze storage system performance metrics to proactively identify and resolve bottlenecks.
• Participate in disaster recovery planning and testing.
• Provide on‑call support and respond to storage‑related incidents.
• Engage in change management processes/procedures to ensure smooth implementation of system updates and enhancements.

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience in enterprise storage administration, preferably in a healthcare environment.
• Proven expertise with: IBM Flash System, Net App Clustered ONTAP, Pure Storage Flash Array, Dell EMC Isilon Storage Systems and Brocade and Cisco SAN Directors/Switches.
• Strong understanding of NAS protocols (NFS, SMB/CIFS) and file storage management.
• Experience with storage replication, snapshots, and backup integration.
• In-depth understanding of storage subsystems and their underlying architecture.
• Demonstrated ability to perform performance tuning and optimization of storage systems to meet application and clinical workload demands.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience supporting EHR systems.
• Certifications in IBM, Net App, Dell EMC or Pure Storage technologies.
• Knowledge of VMware, Windows, AIX and Linux environments.
• Knowledge of Dell EMC Avamar, Data Domain and IBM Defender Data Protection Platforms.

• Organization:
  Corporate Services
• Department:
  Ascension Technology Services
• Shift: Day Job
• Union Code:
  Not Applicable

This posting represents the major duties, responsibilities, and authorities of this job, and is not intended to be a complete list of all tasks and functions. It should be understood, therefore, that incumbents may be asked to perform job‑related duties beyond those explicitly described above.

Henry Ford Health partners with millions of people on their health journey, across Michigan and around the world. We offer a full continuum of services – from primary and preventative care to complex and specialty care, health insurance, a full suite of home health offerings, virtual care, pharmacy, eye care and other health care retail. With former Ascension southeast Michigan and Flint region locations now part of our team, Henry Ford’s care is available in 13 hospitals and hundreds of ambulatory care locations.

Based in Detroit, Henry Ford is one of the nation’s most respected academic medical centers and is leading the Future of Health:
Detroit, a $3 billion investment anchored by a reimagined Henry Ford academic healthcare campus. Learn more at  .

The health and overall well‑being of our team members is our priority. That’s why we offer support in the various components of our team’s well‑being: physical, emotional, social, financial and spiritual. Our Total Rewards program includes competitive health plan options, with three consumer‑driven health plans (CDHPs), a PPO plan and an HMO plan. Our team members enjoy a number of additional benefits, ranging from dental and eye care coverage to tuition assistance, family forming benefits, discounts to dozens of businesses and more.

Employees classified as contingent status are not eligible for benefits.

Equal Employment Opportunity / Affi­rmative Action Employer Henry Ford Health is

committed to the hiring, advancement and fair treatment of all individuals without regard to

race, color, creed, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status, size, height,

weight, marital status, family status, gender identity, sexual orientation, and genetic information,

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