Emory University · 1 day ago
Associate Director, IT Storage & Cloud Engineering - OIT
US-GA-Atlanta
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff, Director/Executive
7+ years expEmory University is a leading research university that fosters excellence and attracts world-class talent to innovate today and prepare leaders for the future. They are seeking an Associate Director for IT Storage & Cloud Engineering to manage and develop enterprise storage and critical infrastructure while overseeing the data protection strategy and team operations.
E-LearningEducationHealth Care
Responsibilities
Designs and manages operations, planning and development of the Emory Enterprise storage and critical infrastructure to include high performance computing and electronic medical records systems
Ensures the infrastructure provides the centralized fiber attached (SAN) and network attached (NAS) storage critical to enterprise-wide applications and systems
Owns the enterprise storage and data protection strategy and multi-year roadmap, including lifecycle management, capacity forecasting, technology refresh planning, and the evaluation of emerging solutions both on premise and in cloud-hosted environments
Oversees storage-based offsite replication and the enterprise data protection infrastructure
Manages people resources and processes to administer day-to-day operations
Identifies individual and team skill gaps and developmental opportunities to facilitate career development
Ensures direct and indirect reports have documented career goals and detailed plans for achieving these goals to develop these individuals professionally
Conducts performance evaluations consistently and fairly to facilitate open communication and encourage continuous performance improvement
Manages team compliance with division policies and procedures to meet ITIL and enterprise requirements and expectations
Provides technical expertise to support team collaboration for resolving issues and meeting customer expectations
Interacts with division resources to promote the department's role and to ensure adherence to IT governance and ITSM processes for achieving enterprise-wide efficiencies
Evaluates and summarizes departmental metrics to measure performance and forecast future needs
Conducts regular meetings with EHC IT staff to review and clarify current and future storage needs
Acts as storage team project planning representative to provide technical feedback and to ensure storage team resources are available
Interacts with University and Healthcare central IT, departments, and researchers to provide solutions to non-OIT organizations and supports a consultative engagement model for intake, design, and delivery
Provisions storage to maintain application availability
Manages vendor breaks and fixes to maintain storage and application availability
Monitors storage health to maintain application availability
Monitors storage utilization to ensure storage inventory availability for routine application growth
Monitors data protection operations and capacity to maintain application recovery options
Conducts routine vendor meetings to maintain partnerships with the enterprise's major vendors
Negotiates storage purchases to achieve competitive pricing
Performs other related responsibilities as assigned
Qualification
Required
A bachelor's degree in IT or a related field and seven years of relevant IT experience including demonstrated technical expertise in specific IT areas, project management skills and lead or supervisory experience, OR an equivalent combination of education, training and experience
Extensive experience in the implementation and production support of an enterprise system
Preferred
Demonstrated hands-on technical leadership—willing and able to engage directly with the technology to troubleshoot, validate designs, and partner with healthcare and university engineers on complex production strategy and deployments
Demonstrated competence and strong working knowledge of storage and data protection in AWS (e.g., S3, EBS, FSx, AWS Backup, and Storage Gateway)
Demonstrated competence and strong working knowledge of storage and data protection in Azure (e.g., Azure Blob, Azure Disk, Azure File, Azure NetApp, Azure Backup concepts)
Ability to architect cost-effective and efficient data mobility patterns between on-prem resources and cloud providers developing hybrid data management approaches
Deep expertise in enterprise data protection strategy and operations, including Dell/EMC Data Domain (PowerProtect) and related backup, replication, retention, and recovery practices—driving lifecycle governance aligned to business needs
Deep expertise operating unstructured data platforms—especially Dell/EMC Isilon (PowerScale) — including cluster administration, performance troubleshooting, quota/snapshot strategy, capacity forecasting, and lifecycle/tiering design
Strong consultative mindset with a track record of acting as a solutions partner with university and healthcare customers—bringing options, tradeoffs, and recommendations as well as leading the engineering team to fulfill those recommendations
Proactive, systems-level thinker who anticipates and mitigates storage and data protection risks, including recoverability, resiliency, and service continuity
Experience evaluating and recommending modern storage and data protection solutions, including comparing platforms and emerging solutions (including cloud-based solutions) alongside traditional enterprise vendors (e.g., Dell/EMC) based on fit, cost, performance, and operational impact
Experience with Globus and high-speed data movement architectures (endpoints, throughput optimization, and secure transfer workflows)
Company
Emory University
Emory University is an institute of higher learning and a private research university.
10001+ employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$719.87MKey Investors
GettyNational Institutes of HealthHyundai Hope On Wheels
2025-08-20Grant· $0.28M
2024-11-13Grant· $15M
2024-08-28Grant· $0.4M
Leadership Team
Claire E Sterk
President Emerita and Charles Howard Candler Professor of Public Health
Gregory Fenves
Chancellor
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