The California Independent System Operator (CAISO) is a nonprofit public-benefit corporation that manages the reliable flow of electricity across the high-voltage, long-distance power lines for 80 percent of California's power grid and part of Nevada.  The Folsom-based CAISO safeguards the economy and well-being of more than 30 million Californians by operating the grid around the clock 365 days a year. Working diligently to meet the electricity needs of all Californians, the CAISO is at the forefront of integrating historic amounts of clean, renewable power to the electrical grid under California’s mandate to decarbonize all retail sales of electricity by 2045.

As the only independent system operator in the Western United States, the CAISO works impartially with a wide array of entities involved in generating and delivering power across California and the West to ensure the safe and reliable movement of electricity on the grid. With no financial interest in any segment of the system, the CAISO also ensures fair and transparent access to nearly 26,000 circuit miles on networked transmission lines and market transactions, making sure supply and demand are balanced and that there is enough power to meet customers’ needs.

The CAISO also operates day-ahead and real-time energy markets that select the most efficient mix and location of resources to meet electricity demand. To foster greater coordination in the Western U.S., the CAISO launched its Western Energy Imbalance Market (EIM) in 2014, providing real-time energy market services to more than two-thirds of the Western interconnected grid. Since its inception, the Western EIM has provided more than $1.4 billion in benefits to market participants and achieved a significant reduction in greenhouse gas emissions.

The California ISO is committed to the health, safety, and work/life integration of its employees. This position would be eligible to participate in a hybrid remote work schedule (3 days on our beautiful Folsom campus, 2 days working from home). Relocation assistance is available.

Under the general direction of the Manager, plans, deploys, maintains and manages Enterprise wide storage infrastructure across highly complex, integrated environments and redundant sites.  Identifies researches and resolves complex technical problems, and tracks and manages issues to ensure a timely resolution. Monitors, maintains and upgrades Enterprise Storage infrastructure and other supported systems to ensure the highest level of availability, reliability, manageability, scalability and performance. Collaborates with the business unit personnel to analyze and resolve related issues in a time-critical environment. Participates in vendor management activities.

What's In it for You

Our purpose is to lead the way to tomorrow's energy network. Make a difference and impact millions of people who depend on electricity in their everyday lives.

• You get to work on interesting and challenging assignments that will help grow your skill set.
• You will work in an extremely collaborative environment inside our LEED certified Folsom, California campus.
• You will be challenged, be a part of a winning team, and your contributions will be rewarded and recognized.

What You Will Be Doing

• Responsible for requirements analysis, development, customization, integration, implementation and administration of various enterprise-wide Storage requirements and associated applications. Develops, integrates, deploys and provides support for distributed Enterprise storage hardware across distributed datacenters to ensure scalability, performance, redundancy and security.
• Collaborates with various business units to analyze, develop and implement solutions to Storage requirements, and works to ensure the highest level of systems performance and availability, and to ensure compliance with business requirements, standards and service agreements. Collaborates with team members to analyze and resolve complex technical issues relating to integrated storage, software, systems development, implementation and other supported systems.
• Works with representatives from various ISO business units to design technology solutions that meet business requirements and acts as department technical advisor to other business units as required.
• Collects and distributes data for supported systems capacity planning and performance management, including data replication and other appropriate systems to ensure data integrity. Proactively identify issues, create workable solutions and provide recommendation to management
• Coordinates IT response and resolution to systems failures and related issues including root cause analysis. Assists with      vendor management activities as needed, and may act as main point-of-contact to vendors and internal staff on associated issues
   

Level of Education and Discipline

• A Bachelor's degree (BA, BS) or equivalent education, training or experience in Computer Science, Engineering, SAN Management or related field.

Amount of Experience

• Equivalent years of education and training, plus five (5) or more years related experience.

Certifications

• Storage Certification preferred

Type of Experience

• Experience with storage architecture, high volume operations, Storage Area Networks and Network Attached Storage, Networking, Backup and hardware.  
• Strong experience in one or more of the following required:  
  • SAN/NAS industry leaders hardware (e.g. EMC, Netapp, etc)
  • clustered file systems
  • fiber channel protocol.  
• Experience in managing high-volume online operations and growing large, complex, mission-critical storage systems in a scalable and manageable manner and recommending the technology to sustain a 1-3 year time horizon.  
• Familiarity with LAN, NVMe protocols, Storage implementation and Security.  
• Proven experience in UNIX and Networking.  
• In-depth knowledge and application of relevant commonly-used concepts, best practices and procedures. 
• Experience with NFS exports and SMB/CIFS shares – specifically with NetApp/OnTap
• Experience with SAN zoning – Brocade/Broadcom
• Experience with LUNs presented from storage arrays
  • Dell EMC VMAX/PowerMAX
  • Dell EMC VNX
  • Dell EMC XtremIO

Additional Skills and Abilities:

• Ability to work effectively in a team environment as a facilitator and team member.
• Strong analytical, interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills. 
• Must be able to effectively document and convey technical information to non-technical audiences.
• Self-motivated, problem solving skills and the ability to influence others without direct authority. 
• Able to develop and present training to staff on emerging technologies.
• Apply broad and comprehensive knowledge of principles, practices and procedures.
• Must be able to handle a dynamic and changing work environment, and work well independently. 
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office.

**We will also consider a Storage Engineer level.  This position would require a Bachelor's degree or equivalent as stated above, plus two (2) or more years of related experience.**