Sr Storage Platform Engineer

Category/Area of Expertise: IT & Technology
Job Requisition: 443738
Address: USA-IL-Chicago-300 South Riverside Plaza
Store Code: Infrastructure - Hosting (5118678)
Ahold Delhaize USA, a division of global food retailer Ahold Delhaize, is part of the U.S. family of brands, which includes five leading omnichannel grocery brands - Food Lion, Giant Food, The GIANT Company, Hannaford and Stop & Shop. Our associates support the brands with a wide range of services, including Finance, Legal, Sustainability, Commercial, Digital and E-commerce, Technology and more.
Primary Purpose
The Storage Platform Engineer, Storage Services will play a crucial role in our organization. This role involves assessing, architecting and engineering storage solutions, project planning, implementing, addressing operational issues and improving monitoring metrics, documenting and supporting the following types of projects:

• IT Business Plans & Technology Modernization
• Server Virtualization and Consolidation Assessments
• Business Continuity Architecture, Planning and Implementations
• Advanced Troubleshooting and Systems Recovery
• Large-Scale Network and Systems Infrastructure Designs
• Enterprise Application Upgrades and Deployments
• Systems Migrations / Office Relocations
• Best Practice Administration of Complex Computing Environments

• Implement automation for operational efficiencies.

Our flexible/hybrid work schedule includes 3 in-person days at one of our core locations and 2 remote days. Our core office locations are Chicago, IL; Mauldin, SC; Salisbury, NC.
Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Manages the Storage Area Network that provides hard disk space to the servers via the network.
• Maintains and monitors Storage Area Network usage to ensure necessary capacity is available.
• Manages data backup infrastructure to provide reliable restore capabilities to data owners.
• Develop and maintain tools and automation for storage and backup environment.
• Perform other duties as required and assigned by manager and upper management.
• Follow legal policies as directed.
• Formulate plans for capacity planning and technology forecasting.
• Participate and provide support on any incident calls and pursue an RCA.
• Experience implementing and supporting new technologies and understanding of associated business implications with a basic amount of supervision.
• Ability to execute multiple projects/tasks & deadlines effectively without supervision.

• Solid experience supporting Windows & Linux storage subsystem components in mission critical production environments.
• Expert knowledge of storage system management tools and software.
• Experience with storage system performance analysis, troubleshooting & resolution of complex problems. Broad troubleshooting experience.
• Experience with backup/restore and archiving of data in a large environment, including both disk and tape backups and restores.
• Demonstrate understanding of relationship storage systems with associated business processes.
• Ability to understand and write scripts in Shell, Python, and/or Perl.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills along with analytical and organizational skills.
• Experience with reporting and alerting software like Nagios or similar, Grafana/Prometheus/Graphite or similar.
• Experience with provisioning SAN and NAS storage on Linux and Windows.
• Experience with developing APIs to communicate with storage and backup systems.
• Design, develop & provisioning storage & hosting platform services via DevOps engineering.
• Create CICD pipelines for build, branching, updates/merging via devops best practices.
• Write code for automation of provisioning storage for - Compute, Database, Virtualization, file storage.

Required Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Storage Platform Engineer preferably in a senior or lead role.
• In-depth knowledge of infrastructure storage technologies & infrastructure automation via IaaC.
• Strong experience with storage systems such as NetApp, EMC, HPE, IBM, Azure Storage.
• Solid understanding of cloud storage solutions e.g., Azure Blob Storage, S3 Storage.
• Proficiency in working with Service Now service management application for automation.
• Proficiency in storage protocols & standards, including Fibre Channel, iSCSI, NFS, CIFS/SMB, and SCSI.
• Proficient understanding of storage provisioning to compute, virtualization and application workloads.
• Proficient understanding of data protection, backup and disaster recovery and high availability.
• Strong scripting skills (e.g., PowerShell, Python) for automation and orchestration of storage tasks.
• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written, with the ability to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams and present complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

• Experience with specific infrastructure storage software, such as Veeam, Commvault, or IBM Spectrum, TSM Storage Protect, EMC, NetApp, HPE(brocade), Rubrik, Zerto, Pure, NetApp, etc.
• Experience with Site Reliability Engineering implementation and best practices.

Primary Technical Capabilities Desired:

• SMB/NFS: NetApp ONTAP
• S3 Object: NetApp StorageGrid
• SAN: Primera, V7000, Powermax, XtremeIO, SVC, FlashArray
• Fibre Channel: Brocade Switches, Directors
• Data Protection: IBM Spectrum, TSM Storage Protect , Scality, Commvault, Tape Libraries
• SAN/NAS: Data migration experience
• iSCSI, NFS, CIFS/SMB, and SCSI,
• SAN NAS, DAS, Object Storage, Archive Solutions, RAID, distributed file system, Azure blob
• Experience with storage and cloud environments is a plus.
• PowerShell, Python - for automation and orchestration of storage tasks.
• Experience with
• Windows CIFS/SMB protocols, SMB file locks, DFS namespace, NTFS 4+ & FS security.
• *nix administration, NFS protocol, Multipath, file uploading/downloading, security.
• VMware vSphere and ESXi
• Data Protection and Recovery
• Microsoft Active Directory
• DNS/DHCP/NTP (Infoblox platform)
• Windows / Linux / AIX Servers
• SAN Storage FlashArray / FlashBlade
• Storage Fabric Switching (Zoning, Masking, Mapping)
• PowerShell, PKI, Python, PowerShell, BASH, Perl, PHP.
• Patching & Scripting for automation capabilities
• Automation: Python, Ansible, Terraform, CICD, Jenkins, Chef, Puppet, Salt, Packer , Rest API

ME/NC/PA/SC Salary Range: $92,640-$138,960
IL/MA/MD Salary Range: $106,480-$159,720
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At Ahold Delhaize USA, we provide services to one of the largest portfolios of grocery companies in the nation, and we're actively seeking top talent. Our team shares a common motivation to drive change, take ownership and enable our brands to better care for their customers. We thrive on supporting great local grocery brands and their strategies.
We offer an experience where our associates are valued; Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging are infused in our business and our employees are representative of the communities that we serve. We believe in total wellness, which encompasses a blend of physical, financial and emotional wellness.
We believe in collaboration, curiosity, and continuous learning in all that we think, create and do. While building a culture where personal and professional growth are just as important as business growth, we invest in our people, empowering them to learn, grow and deliver at all levels of the business.