Requisition #: 49332
Job Title: Enterprise Storage Architect
Country: United States
State: Illinois
City: Elk Grove Village
Employment Status: Full Time
Job Responsibilities:
(Description):
The Enterprise Storage Architect is responsible for designing and implementing a datacenter storage infrastructure, according to best practices, while ensuring high levels of data integrity and availability. This individual will develop, implement, and oversee policies and procedures to ensure consistent storage provisioning that meets application performance and uptime requirements. The Enterprise Storage Architect is also responsible for capacity planning, performance analysis, and developing disaster recovery plans.
Responsibilities:
• Lead the development of long-term vision, strategy, and roadmaps for hosted storage services across the organization in conjunction with company objectives.• Work closely with operations, application developers and project managers to develop scalable, maintainable, highly available storage architectures that meet business objectives and relevant service-level agreements. • Perform capacity planning analysis and other needs assessments as requested by upper management.• Establish strategies for storage consolidation, centralization, and optimization to reduce costs while improving uptime, data integrity and storage performance.• Develop Real-time and Near-Real-Time local and remote replication solutions to support Disaster Recovery initiatives.• Analyze business and technical requirements for infrastructure and manage key projects related to the company's next generation datacenter.• Design, document and build infrastructure components related to storage solution requirements from application, systems and database teams.• Perform on-going optimization of the systems to ensure adequate capacity, availability and scalability.• Manage the purchase, installation, and configuration of new and existing storage devices and corresponding software.• Present opportunities with cost/benefit analysis to leadership in order to shape decisions regarding architectural/infrastructural strategy.
Experience, Skills, Academic:
Knowledge & Experience:
• 10+ years experience in IT infrastructure design and architecture across multiple distributed storage technologies - including SAN, NAS, DAS, RAID, SCSI, Fiber Channel• In-depth understanding of storage architecture design techniques, theories, principles, and practices.• Experience with the following vendors: EMC, NetApp, Cisco and/or Brocade.• Project management/project lifecycle experience.• Desired experience in developing and submitting storage audits and compliance reports.
Automatic Data Processing, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADP), with about $10 billion in revenues and about 570,000 clients, is one of the world's largest providers of business outsourcing solutions. Leveraging over 60 years of experience, ADP offers a wide range of human resource, payroll, tax and benefits administration solutions from a single source. ADP's easy-to-use solutions for employers provide superior value to companies of all types and sizes. ADP is also a leading provider of integrated computing solutions to auto, truck, motorcycle, marine, recreational vehicle, heavy manufacturing, and agricultural vehicle dealers throughout the world.
ADP is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer; M/F/D/V. ADP believes that diversity leads to strength.
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Job Category: Technology
Area of Interest: Technology and Data Services
Locations: United States, Elk Grove Village, IL
