Toby Taylor

About Toby Taylor

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARYSenior infrastructure and cloud engineering leader with 30+ years of experience designing, modernizing, and operating hybrid cloud and enterprise data center platforms. Proven track record leading engineering teams, delivering multi-million-dollar infrastructure initiatives, and building reliable, scalable platforms supporting research, product development, and enterprise operations. Deep expertise across Linux platform engineering, enterprise storage, virtualization, AWS cloud environments, disaster recovery, and infrastructure automation. Recognized for combining hands-on technical depth with strategic leadership and for advancing AI-assisted engineering practices that improve automation, troubleshooting, delivery speed, and documentation quality.

Experience

1. Senior Manager, Hybrid Cloud & Platform Engineering

   Myriad Genetics

   Mar 2019 — Present · UT, US

   Lead infrastructure strategy, platform architecture, and engineering operations for hybrid cloud and enterprise data center environments supporting mission-critical research, product, and enterprise workloadsPartner with technology leadership, R&D, product engineering, and PMO teams to deliver scalable, secure, and resilient infrastructure servicesManage a team of senior infrastructure engineers responsible for compute, storage, virtualization, cloud, and data protection platforms, while overseeing a multimillion-dollar annual infrastructure budgetDefine platform and architecture strategy for compute, storage, virtualization, resiliency, recovery, and large-scale infrastructure initiativesSupport Agile delivery practices, including occasional responsibilities aligned to Scrum Master and Product Owner functionsLed a major enterprise data center migration in 2025 and directed on-premises-to-AWS migration initiatives to advance hybrid cloud adoption and long-term modernizationImplemented AWS governance frameworks to improve cost visibility, control, and optimizationArchitect and operate Pure Storage and NetApp platforms, while leading engineering for backup, disaster recovery, and data protection services using RubrikManage VMware and Nutanix platforms and standardize infrastructure provisioning and delivery through Terraform, GitHub Actions, Python, Bash, and SaltStackApply AI-assisted engineering with ChatGPT/OpenAI, GitHub Copilot, Claude, and prompt engineering to improve infrastructure-as-code, scripting, troubleshooting, debugging, automation, and technical documentationMentor engineers on practical AI adoption across coding, troubleshooting, automation, and daily operational workflowsDesign and maintain disaster recovery and business continuity architectures, lead capacity planning and performance optimization, and deliver scalable infrastructure services supporting research, product engineering, and enterprise operations

Education

• Utah Valley University

  Information Technology

  1992 — 1994

Skills

• Veritas Storage Foundation +Ha
• Nagios
• Emc Srdf
• Storage Navigator Moduar2
• Oracle Exadata
• Emc Dmx3/4
• Emc Powerpath
• Emc Spa
• Postgresql
• Emc Ecc
• Nas
• Linux (Red Hat, Oracle Linux)
• Hds Device Manager
• Ibm Vio
• Ibm P-Series Servers
• Emc Timefinder
• Cifs
• Brocade San Manager
• Unix (Ibm Aix, Sun Solaris, Hp-UX)
• Hds Vsp
• Oracle 10g/11g Rac
• Visio
• Clariion Cx Line
• Sun Sparc Tx Line
• Hds Hus
• Mysql
• Nfs
• Volume Management in Aix, Linux and Solaris
• Hds Hnas
• Hp Dl Line
• Brocade Enterprise Switches
• Windows (2003/2008)
• Mac Os
• Isilon Iq Nl-Series
• Quest Foglight/Pa
• Fcoe
• Emc Smc
• Hds Ams
• Emc Vmax
• Mware Esxi 4.1 and 5.0 and Vmware Vcenter