Cloud Platform Architect (Storage)

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What You ll Be Doing:

Storage Architect

As a Storage Architect within the Platform Engineering organization, you will be responsible for designing, deploying, and maintaining storage solutions across multiple data centers and cloud environments. This includes ensuring optimal performance, scalability, and security for network, systems, and storage infrastructure.

It is important to know

We are transforming the way we operate and your role as Storage Architect is instrumental in our success. This role is for you if you are interested in becoming part of our highly talented Cloud Operations function.

What you ll be doing

• Ensure the security, integrity, and compliance of data across storage solutions, implementing strategies to safeguard against loss or corruption.
• Oversee the performance and status of various backup operations, ensuring successful completion and swiftly addressing any issues that arise.
• Support customers in retrieving data, ensuring timely, accurate, and efficient restoration of critical information.
• Administer storage and snapshot services to enhance backup operations, optimizing resource utilization and system efficiency.
• Manage and execute software upgrades for Rubrik products, ensuring the latest features, enhancements, and security patches are deployed.
• Configure and maintain backup policies, schedules, and retention settings within Rubrik to align with organizational needs and compliance requirements.
• Balance backup jobs and SLAs to optimize system performance, manage Rubrik cluster and node resources, and conduct necessary SQL agent upgrades as required.
• Monitor cloud storage expenses and implement strategies for cost control, such as data lifecycle management, right-sizing storage resources, and identifying opportunities for cost savings.
• Design and implement cloud-based disaster recovery plans, ensuring data resilience and rapid recovery in the event of outages.
• Monitor the health, performance, and capacity of storage systems to ensure optimal functionality and prevent potential issues before they impact operations.

You will need this to be successful

• Expert at reverse engineering large scale and complex storage management.
• Huge plus - Experience with Terraform and Ansible building and releasing Storage-as-Code (IaC).
• Must have - expertise in designing, implementing, and optimizing scalable, secure, and cost-effective storage solutions, with strong knowledge of backup and disaster recovery, cloud storage management, performance tuning, and cost control strategies.
• Extremely good at communication and comfortable with a high level of transparency.
• Ability to produce and maintain high quality network topology / architecture documentation.
• Highly collaborative attitude and able to mentor junior engineers on the team.
• Low ego.
• Certification examples: AZ-900, AZ-104, Storage Management Certification, or equivalent.

Academic Qualification

• Bachelor s degree in computer science or equivalent experience

Mandatory Requirements:

We require that all employees have the following technical capability at their home: High speed internet over 10 Mbps, the ability to plug in directly to the home internet router. These at-home technical requirements are subject to change with any scheduled re-opening of our office locations.

Evolent Health is an equal opportunity employer and considers all qualified applicants equally without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or disability status.