Sr Lead, Infra Storage Mgmt

About Northern Trust:

Northern Trust, a Fortune 500 company, is a globally recognized, award-winning financial institution that has been in continuous operation since 1889.

Northern Trust is proud to provide innovative financial services and guidance to the world’s most successful individuals, families, and institutions by remaining true to our enduring principles of service, expertise, and integrity. With more than 130 years of financial experience and over 22,000 partners, we serve the world’s most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.

Role Summary
We seek a skilled Storage Engineer with expertise in Enterprise Storage(NAS/SAN), Elastic Cloud Storage and automation. This role involves managing storage infrastructure, developing engineering solutions, and overseeing policies, procedures, and disaster recovery tests. Candidates should have experience in large-scale enterprise environments and be prepared for technical challenges, high visibility, and influencing platform direction. The role offers opportunities to work with advanced storage technologies and contribute strategically to infrastructure services.

Key Responsibilities and Required Skills
Enterprise Storage Management
• Experience with Storage Infrastructure Management, Provisioning, Optimization and Monitoring.
• Lead projects which are large in scope, typically cross-functional and technically difficult, often involving combinations of platforms and computing environments (e.g., host based, distributed systems, client server, Web, e-commerce) and technologies.
• Design, Architect and maintain NAS/SAN environments (NetApp Storage, ECS, Pure Storage).
• Design, Architect and maintain NAS Storage and Hybrid Cloud environments .
• Execute storage migrations, decommissioning, and capacity optimization projects.
• Collaborate with automation teams to design and implement operational efficiencies.
• Experience with backup/recovery design, DR implementation, monitoring implementation, performance tuning and optimization.
• Drive monitoring refinement and proactive alerting strategies.
• Provide Level 3 (L3) support for complex incidents and partner with Operations for resolution.
• Good knowledge about the Cloud computing (AWX, Azure) , Operating system (Unix, Windows, VMware) and shell scripting.
• Good understanding of fundamental technologies like TCP/IP, HTTP, FTP, SMTP, DNS, Load balancer, NFS.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement.

Competencies
• Good team player, self-motivated and able to work on own initiative.
• Ability to balance conflicting and changing demands through prioritization and a pragmatic approach.
• Clear decision-making ability with the facility to judge complex situations and assess when to escalate issues.
• Good communication skills with a capacity to present, discuss and explain issues coherently and logically both in writing and verbally.
• Ability to think strategically and evaluate options in the short, medium and long term.
• Strong planning and organizing skills including the ability to manage several work streams simultaneously.
• Ability to cope in a technically complex and fast-changing environment, and to respond calmly and rationally to changing priorities in a deadline-drivensituation.

Additional Skills a Plus
• Experience with Cloud Computing (Azure, AWX).
• Experience with Automation and Ansible Scripting.
• Understanding and execution of the IT processes of Incident Management, Problem.
• Management, Change Management, and Configuration Management (Service Now).

Preferred Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science or any related discipline is desired, along with 10+ Years of experience in a storage environment.
• At least 7 years in designing and implementing enterprise class storage solutions for a large company.
• Experience with disaster recovery technologies and data replication.
• Experience in financial services or other highly regulated sectors.
• Exposure to multi cloud strategy.
• Certifications (preferred but not mandatory)
 

Working with Us:

As a Northern Trust partner, greater achievements await. You will be part of a flexible and collaborative work culture in an organization where financial strength and stability is an asset that emboldens us to explore new ideas.

Movement within the organization is encouraged, senior leaders are accessible, and you can take pride in working for a company committed to assisting the communities we serve! Join a workplace with a greater purpose.

We’d love to learn more about how your interests and experience could be a fit with one of the world’s most admired and sustainable companies! Build your career with us and apply today. #MadeForGreater

Reasonable accommodation

Northern Trust is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please email our HR Service Center at MyHRHelp@ntrs.com.

We hope you’re excited about the role and the opportunity to work with us. We value an inclusive workplace and understand flexibility means different things to different people.

Apply today and talk to us about your flexible working requirements and together we can achieve greater.

About Our Pune Office

The Northern Trust Pune office, established in 2016, is now home to over 3,000 employees. The office handles various functions, including Operations for Asset Servicing and Wealth Management, as well as delivering critical technology solutions that support business operations across the globe.

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