Hosting Services Operations Engineer

🔍 Business Affairs: University IT (UIT), Stanford, California, United States

📁: Information Technology Services

📅   : Nov 22, 2024 Post Date

📅   : 105293 Requisition #

About the Role

Join Stanford University's IT Hosting Services team as a Hosting Services Operations Engineer, where you will support the critical compute and storage infrastructure vital to Stanford's academic and administrative functions. This position offers the opportunity to work closely with our experienced engineers, building your skills in managing and maintaining secure, efficient systems that support our dynamic campus and healthcare environments.

This is a hybrid-eligible position.

Responsibilities

As a Hosting Services Operations Engineer, you will:

Support Compute and Storage Infrastructure: Assist in monitoring the private cloud environment, helping to ensure system performance and availability.
Maintain Virtualization Platforms: Support and troubleshoot virtualized environments, with guidance from senior engineers.
Assist in Automation: Participate in developing automated workflows for infrastructure operations using tools such as VMware.
Maintain System Stability: Assist in monitoring system stability, responding to incidents, and ensuring minimal disruptions.
Assist with Cloud Account Management: Support the configuration and management of cloud accounts, policies, and settings across platforms like AWS, GCP, and Azure to help maintain optimal performance, security, and cost-effectiveness.
Support Security and Compliance Efforts: Work within established guidelines to ensure data security and compliance across various systems.
Optimize Resources: Assist in monitoring and analyzing resource usage, identifying potential improvements in compute and storage efficiency.
Document Processes: Help document infrastructure procedures for team reference and knowledge sharing.
Contribute to Cloud Financial Operations (FinOps): Implement FinOps best practices under guidance to help optimize cloud spending, including tasks like rightsizing, workload management, and anomaly detection.
Assist in Incident Response: Collaborate with IT staff to support incident response, disaster recovery, and business continuity efforts.

You will also:

Assist and contribute to the installation, and maintenance of operating systems, utilities, and software on computing systems.
Follow established protocols to assist in maintaining system security.
Collaborate with other IT teams to confirm strategies, assess the technical feasibility of initiatives, and ensure system compatibility within the university’s framework.
Assist with capacity planning for system configurations, software services, network services, and load distribution.

Requirements

To be successful in this role, you should have:

Security and Compliance Knowledge: Understanding of data security standards and regulatory frameworks, such as HIPAA.
Bachelor’s degree and five years of relevant experience, or a combination of education and relevant experience.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

Basic understanding of operating systems, ideally with some experience in system configuration or administration. Experience managing compute and storage infrastructure in a mission-critical private cloud environment;
Working knowledge of traditional and blade-based computing hardware, storage management, storage networking, data center networking, power systems including DC.
Vendor Platforms: VMware and other hypervisors/container management, Cisco UCS & FI, Pure Storage, Cisco and Juniper networking
Familiarity with cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure) or willingness to learn.
Exposure to virtualization platforms (e.g., VMware) and basic troubleshooting skills.
General knowledge of data security practices.
Ability to work collaboratively and independently when appropriate.
Strong communication skills to work effectively with colleagues and users.

The expected pay range for this position is $122,024 - $147,076 per annum.

Stanford University provides pay ranges representing its good faith estimate of what the university reasonably expects to pay for a position. The pay offered to a selected candidate will be determined based on factors such as (but not limited to) the scope and responsibilities of the position, the qualifications of the selected candidate, departmental budget availability, internal equity, geographic location and external market pay for comparable jobs.

At Stanford University, base pay represents only one aspect of the comprehensive rewards package. The Cardinal at Work website (https://cardinalatwork.stanford.edu/benefits-rewards) provides detailed information on Stanford’s extensive range of benefits and rewards offered to employees. Specifics about the rewards package for this position may be discussed during the hiring process.

The job duties listed are typical examples of work performed by positions in this job classification and are not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, tasks, and responsibilities. Specific duties and responsibilities may vary depending on department or program needs without changing the general nature and scope of the job or level of responsibility. Employees may also perform other duties as assigned.

Consistent with its obligations under the law, the University will provide reasonable accommodations to applicants and employees with disabilities. Applicants requiring a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process should contact Stanford University Human Resources by submitting a contact form.

Stanford is an equal employment opportunity and affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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