Systems Engineer III - Storage

Overview

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center is an independent, nonprofit organization providing adult cancer treatment and groundbreaking research focused on cancer and infectious diseases. Based in Seattle, Fred Hutch is the only National Cancer Institute-designated cancer center in Washington. With a track record of global leadership in bone marrow transplantation, HIV/AIDS prevention, immunotherapy and COVID‑19 vaccines, Fred Hutch has earned a reputation as one of the world’s leading cancer, infectious disease and biomedical research centers.

Fred Hutch operates eight clinical care sites that provide medical oncology, infusion, radiation, proton therapy and related services, and network affiliations with hospitals in five states. Together, our fully integrated research and clinical care teams seek to discover new cures to the world’s deadliest diseases and make life beyond cancer a reality.

At Fred Hutch we value collaboration, compassion, determination, excellence, innovation, integrity and respect. Our mission is directly tied to the humanity, dignity and inherent value of each employee, patient, community member and supporter. Our commitment to learning across our differences and similarities makes us stronger. We seek employees who bring different and innovative ways of seeing the world and solving problems.

The Systems Engineer III – Storage will have technical ownership of a critical 10+ PB data environment that supports our scientific and administrative functions. Collaborating closely with the Principal Storage Engineer, this role drives the design, implementation, and operational excellence of Tier‑1 storage ecosystems, specifically Dell Isilon/Power Scale, Net App and Nimble, as well as data protection platforms like Cohesity and Veeam.

Beyond daily administration, the SE III will focus on engineering solutions for scale, utilizing Power Shell or Ansible for automation, driving data governance strategies for unstructured data, and optimizing storage performance for virtualization workloads. This engineer must be capable of analyzing complex performance bottlenecks, forecasting capacity trends for multi-year planning, and translating architectural concepts into executable technical plans. This position offers the autonomy to drive technical improvements while directly supporting the institute’s mission of eliminating cancer.

This role will have the opportunity to work partially at our campus and remotely. Evening and/or weekend work may occasionally be required.

• Fulfill day-to-day operational tasks associated with maintaining infrastructure systems.
• Serve as technical lead or team member for large, complex projects to provide new or improved infrastructure services.
• Install/build, configure, administer, and decommission infrastructure systems, including upgrades, patches, and migrations.
• On a rotation basis, provide 24/7 on-call support for mission critical infrastructure systems.
• Provide Tier 3 Support of infrastructure systems.
• Act as an escalation point for technical issues as required.
• Monitor and report on infrastructure systems’ usage, capacity, and availability. Set appropriate monitoring and alerting levels for infrastructure systems.
• Respond to incidents and service outages to restore service interruptions in a timely manner.
• Fulfill service requests in the most supportable and expedient way.
• Monitor and tune infrastructure systems for optimal performance.
• Control and limit infrastructure systems’ access in compliance with security policies and best practices to maintain system integrity.
• Create new and maintain current and accurate technical documentation and diagrams.
• Develop and nurture relationships and collaborate with other members of IT staff and end users to resolve technical challenges.
• Lead hardware / software evaluation for infrastructure systems.
• Participate in and present at Design Reviews to ensure reasonable and supportable solutions.
• Lead and promote the use of and offer improvements for departmental processes such as change management, incident management and problem management.
• Perform assigned tasks to improve processes, meet departmental goals.
• Analyze,…