REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• College degree in computer science or equivalent education and experience
• 15+ years’ hands-on experience in an Enterprise-class Storage environment.
• Strong experience with Fiber Channel Storage Area Networks, including the ability to perform in-depth problem and performance analysis.
• Strong experience with storage provisioning and monitoring in an environment with Windows, Unix, and VMware.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Experience in troubleshooting network connectivity in a secure environment.
• Working knowledge of local area networking, compute, and standard virtualization platforms.
• Working knowledge of at least one of the major backup systems (CommVault preferred).
• Understanding of storage performance tuning for databases and clustered systems.

ESSENTIAL BEHAVIORS, SKILLS, AND ATTITUDES REQUIRED FOR SUCCESS IN THIS POSITION

Commitment to DaVita’s values of Service Excellence, Integrity, Team, Continuous Improvement, Accountability, Fulfillment and Fun with ability to demonstrate those positively and proactively to patients, teammates, management, physicians, and/or vendors (Village Service Partners) in everyday performance and interactions

LANGUAGE SKILLS

Fluent in the written and verbal skills necessary to perform successfully the essential functions, duties, and responsibilities of the position.

VISION REQUIREMENTS

Vision adequate to perform essential duties and responsibilities of position.

• Assist management with the creation of a long-term direction and strategy for Storage Operations within DaVita to properly support internal and external customers, integrate with the initiatives and long-term direction of other departments, and position Storage Operations to be able to support successful long-term operations
• Provide Senior-level support for day-to-day operations as well as guidance on new technologies that advance the capabilities of the Storage team.
• Provide leadership and guidance for the Infrastructure Team to further integrate with DevOps for on-prem and cloud-based initiatives.
• Monitor and analyze enterprise storage infrastructure. Primary technologies include IBM Storage Virtualization, IBM SAN systems (v5000, v7000, FS7200), PureStorage FlashArray and FlashBlade, DellEMC Isilon, and Brocade Director-class switches.
• Work with administrators from other technology lanes to assist with planning, execution, and troubleshooting of storage-related projects and initiatives.
• Perform in-depth analysis of incidents and provide comprehensive action plans to avoid similar incidents in the future.
• Analyze capacity and performance trends to help guide the Storage Strategy for current and near-future needs, as well as position DaVita to embrace emerging technologies.
• Perform system maintenance and upgrades outside of production hours
• Review system logs, track and report application issues and events
• Create and modify system scripts to automate system processing
• Assists in performing and documenting procedures
• Help to formulate and document standard operating procedures
• Participate in an on-call rotation for after-hours support
• Participate and support day to day ITIL activities
• Coordinating the installation and configuration of new hardware.
• Participate in the full lifecycle of a system during the planning, build, administration and maintenance, and eventual decommission
• Assist with the planning and execution of short-term and long-term projects
• Assume lead role on select projects and initiatives, act as Subject Matter Expert for inter-departmental discussions and planning
• Assist with the installation of applications as required by development and application teams.
• Participate in new technology reviews.
• Occasional travel may be required.
• Performs other duties as assigned or requested by management