Chief Engineer (SAN infrastructure & Data Protection platform)

Job description

At U.S. Bank, we’re on a journey to do our best. Helping the customers and businesses we serve to make better and smarter financial decisions and enabling the communities we support to grow and succeed. We believe it takes all of us to bring our shared ambition to life, and each person is unique in their potential. A career with U.S. Bank gives you a wide, ever-growing range of opportunities to discover what makes you thrive at every stage of your career. Try new things, learn new skills and discover what you excel at—all from Day One. Job Description U.S. Bank is seeking a motivated Chief Engineer with strong leadership abilities to contribute toward the success of our technology initiatives. Provides a combination of technical and business leadership while being the primary trusted and capable owner of one or more high priority, high visibility, complex focused initiatives that typically cross multiple technology and business line areas. Will typically have a small number of direct reports (e.g., an architect, systems analyst, etc.) and provide guidance to a larger community including affected systems, program management, and test leadership. Responsibilities include: Provide senior technical leadership and strategic direction for Enterprise Storage Architecture , SAN Infrastructure , NAS Platforms , and Data Protection Technologies supporting critical business operations. Define and maintain enterprise architecture standards, engineering roadmaps, and technology strategies for storage, data protection, and infrastructure resiliency platforms. Lead the design, implementation, and optimization of large-scale Dell PowerMax , NetApp , and associated enterprise storage environments. Provide architectural leadership for Brocade and Cisco SAN Fabric infrastructure, ensuring scalability, performance, availability, and operational stability. Serve as the highest-level technical escalation point for complex storage, SAN, replication, backup, recovery, and infrastructure issues. Drive storage platform lifecycle management, modernization initiatives, hardware refresh programs, and strategic migration efforts across enterprise environments. Partner with infrastructure, security, operations, cloud, and application teams to ensure recovery readiness, business continuity, cyber resiliency, and disaster recovery objectives are achieved. Establish engineering standards, operational best practices, and governance processes to ensure long-term viability, reliability, and supportability of storage and data protection platforms. Basic Qualifications - Bachelor's degree in business, MIS, engineering, computer science, mathematics, any science, or equivalent work experience - Eight or more years of experience in delivering software-based solutions Preferred Skills/Experience Expert knowledge of Enterprise Storage Architecture , including design, implementation, and support of large-scale mission-critical storage environments. Advanced experience with Dell PowerMax enterprise storage platforms, including performance optimization, replication, provisioning, and lifecycle management. Expertise in EverPure storage technologies within large-scale enterprise environments Deep expertise in Brocade SAN Fabrics , Cisco SAN Infrastructure , Fibre Channel networking, zoning, fabric design, troubleshooting, and capacity planning. Strong experience with NetApp Storage Platforms , including NAS architecture, storage administration, data management, and operational support. Hands-on expertise with Data Protection Technologies , including Cohesity , Data Domain , backup, recovery, replication, and disaster recovery solutions. Experience supporting and engineering ECS (Elastic Cloud Storage) . Strong understanding of operational resiliency , business continuity , recovery readiness , cyber recovery, disaster recovery planning, and infrastructure risk management. Proven ability to provide technical leadership for enterprise modernization initiatives, platform migrations, engineering governance, and long-term infrastructure strategy. Location expectations This role requires working from a U.S. Bank location three (3) or more days per week. If there’s anything we can do to accommodate a disability during any portion of the application or hiring process, please refer to our disability accommodations for applicants . Benefits: Our approach to benefits and total rewards considers our team members’ whole selves and what may be needed to thrive in and outside work. That's why our benefits are designed to help you and your family boost your health, protect your financial security and give you peace of mind. Our benefits include the following: Healthcare (medical, dental, vision) Basic term and optional term life insurance Short-term and long-term disability Pregnancy disability and parental leave 401(k) and employer-funded retirement plan Paid vacation (from two to five weeks depending on salary grade and tenure) Up to 11 paid holiday opportunities Adoption assistance Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 80 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law Review our full benefits available by employment status here . U.S. Bank is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or veteran status, and other factors protected under applicable law. E-Verify U.S. Bank participates in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security E-Verify program in all facilities located in the United States and certain U.S. territories. The E-Verify program is an Internet-based employment eligibility verification system operated by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Learn more about the E-Verify program . The salary range reflects figures based on the primary location, which is listed first. The actual range for the role may differ based on the location of the role. In addition to salary, U.S. Bank offers a comprehensive benefits package, including incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase 401(k) contribution and pension (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). Pay Range: $133,365.00 - $156,900.00 U.S. Bank will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment. U.S. Bank conducts background checks consistent with applicable local laws, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance and the California Fair Chance Act as well as the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. U.S. Bank is subject to, and conducts background checks consistent with the requirements of Section 19 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (FDIA). In addition, certain positions may also be subject to the requirements of FINRA, NMLS registration, Reg Z, Reg G, OFAC, the NFA, the FCPA, the Bank Secrecy Act, the SAFE Act, and/or federal guidelines applicable to an agreement, such as those related to ethics, safety, or operational procedures. Applicants must be able to comply with U.S. Bank policies and procedures including the Code of Ethics and Business Conduct and related workplace conduct and safety policies. Posting may be closed earlier due to high volume of applicants.