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The University of Pennsylvania, the largest private employer in Philadelphia, is a world-renowned leader in education, research, and innovation. This historic, Ivy League school consistently ranks among the top 10 universities in the annual U.S. News & World Report survey. Penn has 12 highly-regarded schools that provide opportunities for undergraduate, graduate and continuing education, all influenced by Penn’s distinctive interdisciplinary approach to scholarship and learning. As an employer, Penn has been ranked nationally on many occasions with the most recent award from Forbes who named Penn one of America’s Best Large Employers in 2023.
Penn offers a unique working environment within the city of Philadelphia. The University is situated on a beautiful urban campus, with easy access to a range of educational, cultural, and recreational activities. With its historical significance and landmarks, lively cultural offerings, and wide variety of atmospheres, Philadelphia is the perfect place to call home for work and play.
The University offers a competitive benefits package that includes excellent healthcare and tuition benefits for employees and their families, generous retirement benefits, a wide variety of professional development opportunities, supportive work and family benefits, a wealth of health and wellness programs and resources, and much more.
Posted Job Title
Senior Enterprise Storage Engineer
Job Profile Title
Systems Administrator Senior
Job Description Summary
Information Systems & Computing (ISC) is the University of Pennsylvania’s central IT organization, providing the core network, data, voice, video, and enterprise application infrastructure and services upon which Penn’s numerous Schools and Centers build their unique tools and capabilities.
ISC’s 300-plus employees work closely with the University’s IT organizations in order to create, deliver and support products and services that help Schools and Centers operate efficiently and effectively. We strive to be easy to work with, and to serve as a trusted advisor to Penn’s IT community, faculty, staff and students in support of an environment of discovery and progress.
ISC’s focus on customer service and the high-quality, cost-effective, reliable implementation of modern IT solutions advances the mission of the University, as well as that of each individual School and Center. At Penn, technological freedom and departmental autonomy represent dearly held core values. ISC supports those ideas by providing foundational services and cogent counsel, empowering individuals and departments to employ their distinct strengths in support of their goals.
The University of Pennsylvania is seeking a highly experienced and self-driven Senior Enterprise Storage Engineer to lead the design, operation, and lifecycle management of its enterprise storage platforms. This role serves as the technical owner of a large-scale NetApp storage environment and associated AWS Storage Gateway infrastructure, ensuring high availability, performance, and data integrity across university systems. This is a senior-level, lead position requiring deep expertise, sound judgment, and the ability to operate independently with minimal oversight. The ideal candidate brings a strategic mindset, strong operational discipline, and a proven track record managing mission-critical storage systems in complex environments.
Job Description
Job Responsibilities
- Serves as the primary technical owner of the University’s NetApp storage infrastructure, responsible for the design, implementation, operation, and continuous improvement of scalable and resilient storage solutions.
- Manages the day-to-day administration of NetApp systems, including performance monitoring, capacity planning, patching, troubleshooting, and ensuring high availability across NAS and SAN environments.
- Responsible for the disaster recovery strategy and execution for storage services, including designing, maintaining, and regularly testing replication, backup, and recovery processes to ensure business continuity and data integrity.
- Maintains and optimizes the AWS Storage Gateway, supporting hybrid cloud integration and enabling reliable data movement between on-premises and cloud platforms.
- Operating with a high degree of independence, leads storage-related initiatives, establishes standards and best practices, and collaborates with cross-functional IT and cloud teams.
- Implements data protection and security controls, ensuring compliance with applicable policies and regulatory requirements, maintaining comprehensive documentation, and proactively identifying and resolving risks to system performance and reliability.
- Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Science and minimum of 5 years of experience or equivalent combination of education and experience is required.
- Enterprise storage engineering experience, with a strong preference for experience supporting large-scale, complex enterprise environments.
- Deep expertise in enterprise storage platforms, including administration and support of NAS (NFS/SMB/CIFS) and SAN (iSCSI/Fibre Channel) environments primarily leveraging NetApp and cloud storage technologies such as AWS Storage Gateway.
- Demonstrate a strong understanding of data protection and resiliency technologies, including snapshots, replication, backup, disaster recovery, and high-availability architectures.
- Proven experience operating independently in a senior or lead engineering capacity, with responsibilities including performance tuning, capacity planning, lifecycle management, and ensuring operational stability of enterprise storage infrastructure.
- Solid understanding of networking concepts related to storage infrastructure, including Ethernet, Fibre Channel, and multipathing technologies.
- Experience with scripting and automation tools such as PowerShell, Python, or Ansible.
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, communication, and technical documentation skills.
Strongly preferred:
- Expertise across one or more leading storage vendors such as Dell EMC, Pure Storage, HPE, IBM, Hitachi, or similar OEM solutions.
- Experience with hybrid cloud storage architectures and cloud-integrated storage services including AWS storage technologies.
- Experience supporting virtualization platforms, enterprise backup solutions, and automation-driven infrastructure operations.
Job Location - City, State
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Department / School
Information Systems and Computing
Pay Range
$84,961.00 - $125,000.00 Annual Rate
Salary offers are made based on the candidate’s qualifications, experience, skills, and education as they directly relate to the requirements of the position, and in alignment with salary ranges based on external market data for the job’s level. Internal organization and peer data at Penn are also considered.
Equal Opportunity Statement
The University of Pennsylvania is an equal opportunity employer. Candidates are considered for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, religion, creed, national origin (including shared ancestry or ethnic characteristics), citizenship status, age, disability, veteran status or any class protected under applicable federal, state or local law.
Special Requirements
Background checks may be required after a conditional job offer is made. Consideration of the background check will be tailored to the requirements of the job.
University Benefits
- Health, Life, and Flexible Spending Accounts: Penn offers comprehensive medical, prescription, behavioral health, dental, vision, and life insurance benefits to protect you and your family’s health and welfare. You can also use flexible spending accounts to pay for eligible health care and dependent care expenses with pre-tax dollars.
- Tuition: Take advantage of Penn's exceptional tuition benefits. You, your spouse, and your dependent children can get tuition assistance here at Penn. Your dependent children are also eligible for tuition assistance at other institutions.
- Retirement: Penn offers generous retirement plans to help you save for your future. Penn’s Basic, Matching, and Supplemental retirement plans allow you to save for retirement on a pre-tax or Roth basis. Choose from a wide variety of investment options through TIAA and Vanguard.
- Time Away from Work: Penn provides you with a substantial amount of time away from work during the course of the year. This allows you to relax, take vacations, attend to personal affairs, recover from illness or injury, spend time with family—whatever your personal needs may be.
- Long-Term Care Insurance: In partnership with Genworth Financial, Penn offers faculty and staff (and your eligible family members) long-term care insurance to help you cover some of the costs of long-term care services received at home, in the community or in a nursing facility. If you apply when you’re newly hired, you won’t have to provide proof of good health or be subject to underwriting requirements. Eligible family members must always provide proof of good health and are subject to underwriting.
- Wellness and Work-life Resources: Penn is committed to supporting our faculty and staff as they balance the competing demands of work and personal life. That’s why we offer a wide variety of programs and resources to help you care for your health, your family, and your work-life balance.
- Professional and Personal Development: Penn provides an array of resources to help you advance yourself personally and professionally.
- University Resources: As a member of the Penn community, you have access to a wide range of University resources as well as cultural and recreational activities. Take advantage of the University’s libraries and athletic facilities, or visit our arboretum and art galleries. There’s always something going on at Penn, whether it’s a new exhibit at the Penn Museum, the latest music or theater presentation at the Annenberg Center, or the Penn Relays at Franklin Field to name just a few examples. As a member of the Penn community, you’re right in the middle of the excitement—and you and your family can enjoy many of these activities for free.
- Discounts and Special Services: From arts and entertainment to transportation and mortgages, you'll find great deals for University faculty and staff. Not only do Penn arts and cultural centers and museums offer free and discounted admission and memberships to faculty and staff. You can also enjoy substantial savings on other goods and services such as new cars from Ford and General Motors, cellular phone service plans, movie tickets, and admission to theme parks.
- Flexible Work Hours: Flexible work options offer creative approaches for completing work while promoting balance between work and personal commitments. These approaches involve use of non-traditional work hours, locations, and/or job structures.
- Penn Home Ownership Services: Penn offers a forgivable loan for eligible employees interested in buying a home or currently residing in West Philadelphia, which can be used for closing costs or home improvements.
- Adoption Assistance: Penn will reimburse eligible employees on qualified expenses in connection with the legal adoption of an eligible child, such as travel or court fees, for up to two adoptions in your household.
University Overview
The University of Pennsylvania, the largest private employer in Philadelphia, is a world-renowned leader in education, research, and innovation. This historic, Ivy League school consistently ranks among the top 10 universities in the annual U.S. News & World Report survey. Penn has 12 highly-regarded schools that provide opportunities for undergraduate, graduate and continuing education, all influenced by Penn’s distinctive interdisciplinary approach to scholarship and learning. As an employer, Penn has been ranked nationally on many occasions with the most recent award from Forbes who named Penn one of America’s Best Large Employers in 2023.
Penn offers a unique working environment within the city of Philadelphia. The University is situated on a beautiful urban campus, with easy access to a range of educational, cultural, and recreational activities. With its historical significance and landmarks, lively cultural offerings, and wide variety of atmospheres, Philadelphia is the perfect place to call home for work and play.
The University offers a competitive benefits package that includes excellent healthcare and tuition benefits for employees and their families, generous retirement benefits, a wide variety of professional development opportunities, supportive work and family benefits, a wealth of health and wellness programs and resources, and much more.
Posted Job Title
Senior Enterprise Storage Engineer
Job Profile Title
Systems Administrator Senior
Job Description Summary
Information Systems & Computing (ISC) is the University of Pennsylvania’s central IT organization, providing the core network, data, voice, video, and enterprise application infrastructure and services upon which Penn’s numerous Schools and Centers build their unique tools and capabilities.
ISC’s 300-plus employees work closely with the University’s IT organizations in order to create, deliver and support products and services that help Schools and Centers operate efficiently and effectively. We strive to be easy to work with, and to serve as a trusted advisor to Penn’s IT community, faculty, staff and students in support of an environment of discovery and progress.
ISC’s focus on customer service and the high-quality, cost-effective, reliable implementation of modern IT solutions advances the mission of the University, as well as that of each individual School and Center. At Penn, technological freedom and departmental autonomy represent dearly held core values. ISC supports those ideas by providing foundational services and cogent counsel, empowering individuals and departments to employ their distinct strengths in support of their goals.
The University of Pennsylvania is seeking a highly experienced and self-driven Senior Enterprise Storage Engineer to lead the design, operation, and lifecycle management of its enterprise storage platforms. This role serves as the technical owner of a large-scale NetApp storage environment and associated AWS Storage Gateway infrastructure, ensuring high availability, performance, and data integrity across university systems. This is a senior-level, lead position requiring deep expertise, sound judgment, and the ability to operate independently with minimal oversight. The ideal candidate brings a strategic mindset, strong operational discipline, and a proven track record managing mission-critical storage systems in complex environments.
Job Description
Job Responsibilities
- Serves as the primary technical owner of the University’s NetApp storage infrastructure, responsible for the design, implementation, operation, and continuous improvement of scalable and resilient storage solutions.
- Manages the day-to-day administration of NetApp systems, including performance monitoring, capacity planning, patching, troubleshooting, and ensuring high availability across NAS and SAN environments.
- Responsible for the disaster recovery strategy and execution for storage services, including designing, maintaining, and regularly testing replication, backup, and recovery processes to ensure business continuity and data integrity.
- Maintains and optimizes the AWS Storage Gateway, supporting hybrid cloud integration and enabling reliable data movement between on-premises and cloud platforms.
- Operating with a high degree of independence, leads storage-related initiatives, establishes standards and best practices, and collaborates with cross-functional IT and cloud teams.
- Implements data protection and security controls, ensuring compliance with applicable policies and regulatory requirements, maintaining comprehensive documentation, and proactively identifying and resolving risks to system performance and reliability.
- Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Science and minimum of 5 years of experience or equivalent combination of education and experience is required.
- Enterprise storage engineering experience, with a strong preference for experience supporting large-scale, complex enterprise environments.
- Deep expertise in enterprise storage platforms, including administration and support of NAS (NFS/SMB/CIFS) and SAN (iSCSI/Fibre Channel) environments primarily leveraging NetApp and cloud storage technologies such as AWS Storage Gateway.
- Demonstrate a strong understanding of data protection and resiliency technologies, including snapshots, replication, backup, disaster recovery, and high-availability architectures.
- Proven experience operating independently in a senior or lead engineering capacity, with responsibilities including performance tuning, capacity planning, lifecycle management, and ensuring operational stability of enterprise storage infrastructure.
- Solid understanding of networking concepts related to storage infrastructure, including Ethernet, Fibre Channel, and multipathing technologies.
- Experience with scripting and automation tools such as PowerShell, Python, or Ansible.
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, communication, and technical documentation skills.
Strongly preferred:
- Expertise across one or more leading storage vendors such as Dell EMC, Pure Storage, HPE, IBM, Hitachi, or similar OEM solutions.
- Experience with hybrid cloud storage architectures and cloud-integrated storage services including AWS storage technologies.
- Experience supporting virtualization platforms, enterprise backup solutions, and automation-driven infrastructure operations.
Job Location - City, State
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Department / School
Information Systems and Computing
Pay Range
$84,961.00 - $125,000.00 Annual Rate
Salary offers are made based on the candidate’s qualifications, experience, skills, and education as they directly relate to the requirements of the position, and in alignment with salary ranges based on external market data for the job’s level. Internal organization and peer data at Penn are also considered.
Equal Opportunity Statement
The University of Pennsylvania is an equal opportunity employer. Candidates are considered for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, religion, creed, national origin (including shared ancestry or ethnic characteristics), citizenship status, age, disability, veteran status or any class protected under applicable federal, state or local law.
Special Requirements
Background checks may be required after a conditional job offer is made. Consideration of the background check will be tailored to the requirements of the job.
University Benefits
- Health, Life, and Flexible Spending Accounts: Penn offers comprehensive medical, prescription, behavioral health, dental, vision, and life insurance benefits to protect you and your family’s health and welfare. You can also use flexible spending accounts to pay for eligible health care and dependent care expenses with pre-tax dollars.
- Tuition: Take advantage of Penn's exceptional tuition benefits. You, your spouse, and your dependent children can get tuition assistance here at Penn. Your dependent children are also eligible for tuition assistance at other institutions.
- Retirement: Penn offers generous retirement plans to help you save for your future. Penn’s Basic, Matching, and Supplemental retirement plans allow you to save for retirement on a pre-tax or Roth basis. Choose from a wide variety of investment options through TIAA and Vanguard.
- Time Away from Work: Penn provides you with a substantial amount of time away from work during the course of the year. This allows you to relax, take vacations, attend to personal affairs, recover from illness or injury, spend time with family—whatever your personal needs may be.
- Long-Term Care Insurance: In partnership with Genworth Financial, Penn offers faculty and staff (and your eligible family members) long-term care insurance to help you cover some of the costs of long-term care services received at home, in the community or in a nursing facility. If you apply when you’re newly hired, you won’t have to provide proof of good health or be subject to underwriting requirements. Eligible family members must always provide proof of good health and are subject to underwriting.
- Wellness and Work-life Resources: Penn is committed to supporting our faculty and staff as they balance the competing demands of work and personal life. That’s why we offer a wide variety of programs and resources to help you care for your health, your family, and your work-life balance.
- Professional and Personal Development: Penn provides an array of resources to help you advance yourself personally and professionally.
- University Resources: As a member of the Penn community, you have access to a wide range of University resources as well as cultural and recreational activities. Take advantage of the University’s libraries and athletic facilities, or visit our arboretum and art galleries. There’s always something going on at Penn, whether it’s a new exhibit at the Penn Museum, the latest music or theater presentation at the Annenberg Center, or the Penn Relays at Franklin Field to name just a few examples. As a member of the Penn community, you’re right in the middle of the excitement—and you and your family can enjoy many of these activities for free.
- Discounts and Special Services: From arts and entertainment to transportation and mortgages, you'll find great deals for University faculty and staff. Not only do Penn arts and cultural centers and museums offer free and discounted admission and memberships to faculty and staff. You can also enjoy substantial savings on other goods and services such as new cars from Ford and General Motors, cellular phone service plans, movie tickets, and admission to theme parks.
- Flexible Work Hours: Flexible work options offer creative approaches for completing work while promoting balance between work and personal commitments. These approaches involve use of non-traditional work hours, locations, and/or job structures.
- Penn Home Ownership Services: Penn offers a forgivable loan for eligible employees interested in buying a home or currently residing in West Philadelphia, which can be used for closing costs or home improvements.
- Adoption Assistance: Penn will reimburse eligible employees on qualified expenses in connection with the legal adoption of an eligible child, such as travel or court fees, for up to two adoptions in your household.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding E-3 Visa Sponsorship as a Storage Engineer
Align your degree to storage specializations
USCIS requires your degree field to match the role. A computer science or information systems degree maps cleanly to storage engineering, but a general IT or unrelated degree may trigger a Request for Evidence. Get a credential evaluation before you apply.
Target employers with active LCA filing history
Search the DOL's Office of Foreign Labor Certification disclosure data for companies that have filed LCAs for storage or infrastructure roles. Employers already familiar with the E-3 visa LCA process move faster and make fewer errors in your paperwork.
Separate your job title from your job duties in applications
Many storage roles carry titles like 'IT Engineer' or 'Systems Administrator' that don't automatically read as specialty occupations. Make sure your offer letter and resume explicitly list storage-specific duties like SAN management, disaster recovery architecture, or cloud storage provisioning.
Use Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service for LCA and consulate prep
Once you have an offer, use Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service to handle your LCA and visa paperwork end-to-end. Storage roles often involve multi-site or hybrid cloud environments that require precise job description language to satisfy DOL prevailing wage classification.
Confirm your employer's E-Verify enrollment before offer stage
E-Verify enrollment isn't required for all E-3 employers, but some enterprise storage teams sit inside federal contractors who are mandated to enroll. Confirm enrollment status early so your start date isn't delayed by compliance onboarding after you sign.
Request a detailed offer letter covering your work location
If your storage role involves managing infrastructure across multiple data centers, your offer letter should specify your primary worksite. The consular officer will review this against your LCA, and location mismatches are a common reason for administrative processing delays.
E-3 Visa Storage Engineer: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I find Storage Engineer jobs with E-3 visa sponsorship?
Migrate Mate lists Storage Engineer roles at companies actively willing to sponsor Australian nationals on the E-3 visa. Unlike general job boards, the listings are filtered for E-3 eligibility so you're not cold-applying to employers unfamiliar with the process. Search by role and location to see current openings with sponsorship confirmed.
How much does it cost to get an E-3 visa?
Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service covers the entire process for $499, including the Labor Condition Application, visa document preparation, and consulate appointment guidance. Traditional immigration lawyers charge $2,000–$5,000+ for the same work. The E-3 has less paperwork than most work visas, so paying thousands for legal help is usually unnecessary.
Does a Storage Engineer role qualify as a specialty occupation for the E-3?
Yes, storage engineering qualifies as a specialty occupation when the position requires a bachelor's degree or higher in computer science, information systems, electrical engineering, or a closely related field. Roles focused on enterprise SAN environments, cloud storage architecture, or data protection systems consistently meet the specialty occupation standard. Titles like 'Storage Administrator' or 'IT Engineer' can qualify, but your offer letter must describe duties that require that specific degree.
How does the E-3 compare to the H-1B for Storage Engineers in the U.S.?
The E-3 is available exclusively to Australian citizens and has a 10,500 annual allocation that has never been fully used, so there's no lottery and no cap risk. The H-1B visa, by contrast, is subject to an oversubscribed annual lottery with a roughly 25% selection rate for most applicants. For Storage Engineers, that means an E-3 can be filed any time of year after a job offer, while an H-1B may require waiting through multiple lottery cycles before starting work.
Can I switch storage employers after my E-3 is approved?
You can change employers on the E-3, but the new employer must file a fresh LCA with the DOL and you'll need a new visa stamp before re-entering the U.S. if you travel internationally. There's no portability provision like the H-1B has under AC21. If your new role involves different storage technologies or a different job title, confirm the new position still meets the specialty occupation definition before your existing E-3 expires.