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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Chief Engineer (SAN infrastructure & Data Protection platform) - **Company:** U.S. Bank, National Association - **Location:** Saint Paul, MN, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $133,365.0 - $156,900.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Disaster Recovery, NetApp Applications, Performance Tuning, Brocade SAN, Storage Technologies, Information Technology, Data Management, Cisco - **Published:** September 3, 2026 - **Apply:** https://usbank.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/US_Bank_Careers/job/Saint-Paul-MN/Chief-Engineer--SAN-infrastructure---Data-Protection-platform-_2026-0026823 ## About the Role Bachelor's degree in business, MIS, engineering, computer science, mathematics, any science, or equivalent work experience - Eight or more years of experience in delivering software-based solutions Preferred Skills/Experience * Expert knowledge of Enterprise Storage Architecture, including design, implementation, and support of large-scale mission-critical storage environments. * Advanced experience with Dell PowerMax enterprise storage platforms, including performance optimization, replication, provisioning, and lifecycle management. * Expertise in EverPure storage technologies within large-scale enterprise environments * Deep expertise in Brocade SAN Fabrics, Cisco SAN Infrastructure, Fibre Channel networking, zoning, fabric design, troubleshooting, and capacity planning. * Strong experience with NetApp Storage Platforms, including NAS architecture, storage administration, data management, and operational support. * Hands-on expertise with Data Protection Technologies, including Cohesity, Data Domain, backup, recovery, replication, and disaster recovery solutions. * Experience supporting and engineering ECS (Elastic Cloud Storage). * Strong understanding of operational resiliency, business continuity, recovery readiness, cyber recovery, disaster recovery planning, and infrastructure risk management. * Proven ability to provide technical leadership for enterprise modernization initiatives, platform migrations, engineering governance, and long-term infrastructure strategy. ## Description U.S. Bank is seeking a motivated Chief Engineer with strong leadership abilities to contribute toward the success of our technology initiatives. Provides a combination of technical and business leadership while being the primary trusted and capable owner of one or more high priority, high visibility, complex focused initiatives that typically cross multiple technology and business line areas. Will typically have a small number of direct reports (e.g., an architect, systems analyst, etc.) and provide guidance to a larger community including affected systems, program management, and test leadership., * Provide senior technical leadership and strategic direction for Enterprise Storage Architecture, SAN Infrastructure, NAS Platforms, and Data Protection Technologies supporting critical business operations. * Define and maintain enterprise architecture standards, engineering roadmaps, and technology strategies for storage, data protection, and infrastructure resiliency platforms. * Lead the design, implementation, and optimization of large-scale Dell PowerMax, NetApp, and associated enterprise storage environments. * Provide architectural leadership for Brocade and Cisco SAN Fabric infrastructure, ensuring scalability, performance, availability, and operational stability. * Serve as the highest-level technical escalation point for complex storage, SAN, replication, backup, recovery, and infrastructure issues. * Drive storage platform lifecycle management, modernization initiatives, hardware refresh programs, and strategic migration efforts across enterprise environments. * Partner with infrastructure, security, operations, cloud, and application teams to ensure recovery readiness, business continuity, cyber resiliency, and disaster recovery objectives are achieved. * Establish engineering standards, operational best practices, and governance processes to ensure long-term viability, reliability, and supportability of storage and data protection platforms. ## Related Videos - [It's all about the Data](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/425-it-s-all-about-the-data) - [How Cisco embraced a DevOps culture within its network engineering team](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/99-how-cisco-embraced-a-devops-culture-within-its-network-engineering-team) - [Enterprise-Cloud-Native - Fast-Paced Development & Deployment in a Highly Secure Banking Environment](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/671-enterprise-cloud-native-fast-paced-development-deployment-in-a-highly-secure-banking-environment) - [Computer Vision from the Edge to the Cloud done easy](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/263-computer-vision-from-the-edge-to-the-cloud-done-easy) - [The Data Mesh as the end of the Datalake as we know it](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/156-the-data-mesh-as-the-end-of-the-datalake-as-we-know-it) - [Next Level Enterprise Architecture: Modular, Flexible, Scalable, Multichannel and AI-Ready?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1017-next-level-enterprise-architecture-modular-flexible-scalable-multichannel-and-ai-ready) ## Related Articles - [Highest Paying Tech Companies for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/220-highest-paying-tech-companies-for-developers) - [Best Paying Jobs in Technology](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/256-best-paying-jobs-in-technology) - [What Are The Top Skills Required For Azure Developers?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/77-what-are-the-top-skills-required-for-azure-developers) - [Top Big Data Technologies That You Need to Know](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/108-top-big-data-technologies-that-you-need-to-know) - [How We Built a Worry-Free System That Runs for 10+ Years – And What We’d Do Again](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/751-how-we-built-a-worry-free-system-that-runs-for-10-years-and-what-we-d-do-again) - [Top-Paying Tech Jobs (with Salaries)](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/372-top-paying-tech-jobs-with-salaries)