curriculum vitae
Bryan Chain
Principal Site Reliability Engineer · Oracle
Principal Site Reliability Engineer focused on enterprise storage and data protection at scale. Twenty years from low-level hardware and data-center infrastructure to petabyte cloud migrations and the automation that makes them survivable. CISSP, MBA, and a firm believer in resilient systems, boring technology, and documentation that respects the reader. What a long, strange trip it’s been.
Experience
Principal Site Reliability Engineer
Oracle (formerly Cerner) · Malvern, PA- Set the go-forward data-protection strategy for workloads migrating into Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) — both cloud-native and lift-and-shift.
- Led a petabyte-scale migration from Veritas NetBackup to Cohesity DataProtect, from initial concept through completion.
- Built automation across Ansible, PowerShell, Terraform and SCCM to move systems between backup methodologies on schedule.
- Drove the storage strategy and a large-scale migration from HPE 3PAR to Dell EMC PowerMax.
- Act as both Lead Storage Architect and Lead Data Protection Architect across a fleet spanning Cohesity, NetBackup, NetWorker, Avamar, Data Domain, Isilon and NetApp.
Manager, IT Services — Storage & Backup
TierPoint · Valley Forge, PA- Set direction for the managed storage and data-protection teams and their service offerings.
- Architected SAN/storage solutions for customer builds across Brocade FC, Dell Compellent, NetApp FAS, HPE 3PAR, GlusterFS, Asigra, Veeam and Commvault.
Senior Storage Engineer
PJM Interconnection · Valley Forge, PA- Grew from AIX recovery analyst (IBM TSM, BCP/DR) to senior engineer over the entire storage environment.
- Owned SAS 70 / SSAE 16 and NERC-CIP audit, security and compliance: documentation, change management, and rigorous testing.