Sr. Linux / Storage Engineer

Job Description

The Core Infrastructure Team at Disney Streaming Services is responsible for the architecture, implementation, and management of the infrastructure services that power content processing and delivery globally for a range of streaming products including ESPN+ and Disney+. From managing the virtualization and container platforms to ensuring that the underlying infrastructure services operate at peak performance, Core Infrastructure is intimately involved.

We are currently seeking a senior level systems engineer to join this world-class group. Reporting to the Director of Core Infrastructure, the ideal candidate is a team player with a rich and diverse technical background. This person is articulate, is creative in their problem solving, is passionate about standardization and automation, and is comfortable working in a highly collaborative, fast paced environment.

If you think you can apply your skill set to some, or all of the following, we would love the opportunity to speak with you!

Responsibilities:

Responsibilities will include:
• Storage provisioning, maintenance, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
• Storage requirements gathering, capacity planning, security hardening, performance tuning, and audit compliance.
• Researching, evaluating, and testing new storage technologies to improve service and reduce cost.
• Automation of common tasks and procedures.
• Working closely with engineers from the systems, network, CDN, database, monitoring, and security teams, along with software development and QA teams, to develop holistic solutions.
• Working closely with vendor engineering and support to troubleshoot problems, mitigate software defects, and drive new features.

Basic Qualifications:
Qualified candidates should be highly proficient in a broad range of technologies, including object storage (Swiftstack/Caringo), NAS storage (Quobyte/Isilon), block storage (ScaleIO), and data protection (vProtect/Data Domain). Should have experience with software-defined massively-scalable architectures on commodity hardware in enterprise environments. Should have experience administering storage for virtualized environments (RHV/KVM/oVirt/Openstack), containerized environments (Docker/Kubernetes/Openshift), and cloud environments (AWS). Should have expertise in Linux (RHEL/CentOS), and be proficient in popular scripting languages (Python/Perl/Bash).

Minimum 7+ years in field, candidates should have a deep understanding of the following:
• Architecture, design, and implementation of enterprise-class storage solutions.
• Storage engineering including requirements gathering, capacity planning, security hardening, performance tuning, and audit compliance.
• Storage administration including provisioning, maintenance, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
• Researching, evaluating, and testing new storage technologies to improve service and reduce cost.
• NAS storage technologies (Quobyte, Isilon).
• Object storage technologies (Swiftstack, Caringo).
• Block storage technologies (ScaleIO).
• Data protection technologies (vProtect, Data Domain).
• Open source storage technologies (Openstack, Ceph, Cinder).
• Traditional storage technologies (VNX/VMAX, Brocade/Cisco SAN switches).
• Software-defined massive-scalable storage architectures on commodity hardware.
• Storage monitoring and reporting tools (InsightIQ, Solarwinds, Icinga, Sensu, Grafana, Elk).
• Storage management in virtualized environments (KVM/oVirt, Red Hat Virtualization, Openstack).
• Storage management in containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes, Openshift).
• Storage management in cloud environments (AWS).
• Deployment and management tools (Ansible, Tower, Foreman, Puppet, Git).
• Advanced scripting and automation (Python, Perl, Bash).

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