Sr. Storage Engineer

Job Description

At Disney Streaming Services, we have a Systems Engineering Department consisting of 4 teams: Storage Engineering, Application Infrastructure, Core Infrastructure, and Architecture & Automation.
• Storage Engineering is responsible for all things storage related (Object Storage, Block, NAS, SAN) as well as the Data Protection environment.
• Application Infrastructure is responsible for base deployment and configuration of the application environment.
• Core Infrastructure is responsible for the compute HW environment, the virtualization environment, and all data center utilities such as DNS, LDAP.
• Architecture & Automation is responsible for platform-wide design strategy and automation.

We're looking to grow our Storage Engineering team to support the new Disney+ launches in the U.S. and abroad.It's an exciting time to join our organization as we continue to evolve the way we process and store our content to provide a seamless transition for our streaming partners.Our Storage Engineering team supports all aspects of storage and data protection for our streaming partners, including Disney+, ESPN+, MLB, NHL, Hulu Live, Sony Vue, and others.If you're looking for a new challenge and want to work on a Linux-based software-defined storage infrastructure, this is the role for you!

Responsibilities:
• Storage provisioning, maintenance, monitoring, and troubleshooting of various large, complex environments
• 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:
The ideal candidate should be highly proficient in object storage (Swiftstack/Caringo Swarm), NAS storage (Quobyte/Isilon), block storage (ScaleIO), and data protection (Storware vProtect/Cohesity/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).

We're also looking for 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.
• Data protection technologies (Storware vProtect, Cohesity, Data Domain).
• Open source storage technologies (Openstack, Ceph, Cinder).
• 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 AWX/Tower, Foreman, Puppet, Git).
• Advanced scripting and automation (Python, Perl, Bash).

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