Senior Storage Engineer
Verisign•Reston, VA
•Hybrid
About The Position
Verisign is seeking an experienced Senior Storage Engineer to implement, operate, and continuously improve highly available infrastructure supporting mission-critical enterprise applications and services. The role requires hands-on expertise across enterprise storage, SAN/NAS technologies, VMware virtualization, Linux, data protection, and disaster recovery/business continuity. The engineer will independently resolve complex infrastructure problems and provide technical leadership across multiple technology domains. The position is based in Verisign’s Reston, Virginia office and follows a hybrid work schedule.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- At least 10 years of systems and operations engineering experience.
- Extensive experience supporting enterprise infrastructure in highly available production environments.
- Strong hands-on experience with enterprise SAN and NAS storage technologies.
- Strong understanding of block and file storage, RAID and data protection, thin provisioning, snapshots and clones, replication, storage efficiency, performance analysis and optimization, capacity management, multipathing, high availability, and resiliency.
- Experience administering Fibre Channel SAN fabrics.
- Strong understanding of Fibre Channel zoning, WWNs, multipathing, fabric design, redundancy, and troubleshooting.
- Experience with enterprise storage platforms from vendors such as Dell Technologies, Infinidat, VAST Data, and NetApp.
- Strong experience with VMware vSphere/ESXi and enterprise virtualization environments.
- Experience administering and troubleshooting Linux and AIX.
- Experience designing and supporting backup, recovery, replication, disaster recovery, and business continuity solutions.
- Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot complex production infrastructure issues involving multiple technologies and vendors.
- Experience with infrastructure capacity planning and performance analysis.
- Strong understanding of high-availability and resilient infrastructure design principles.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate effectively with engineers, application teams, vendors, and leadership.
- Experience with object storage and S3-compatible storage technologies.
- Experience with infrastructure automation using Ansible, REST APIs, and shell scripting.
- Experience performing large-scale storage migrations and technology refreshes.
- Experience working in environments with strict availability, security, compliance, and change-management requirements.
Responsibilities
- Implement, support, and optimize enterprise infrastructure for mission-critical applications and services.
- Engineer and administer enterprise SAN, NAS, and storage platforms, including block, file, and object storage.
- Maintain highly available storage architectures across multiple data centers.
- Configure, administer, troubleshoot, and optimize Fibre Channel SAN environments using Brocade switching technology.
- Support enterprise storage platforms such as Dell PowerMax, Infinidat Infinibox, VAST Data, or comparable technologies.
- Support VMware vSphere/ESXi infrastructure and its integration with enterprise storage and networking.
- Support Linux-based infrastructure, primarily Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) or comparable enterprise Linux systems.
- Implement storage replication, snapshots, data protection, backup, recovery, and disaster recovery solutions.
- Maintain disaster recovery/business continuity architectures, procedures, and recovery strategies for critical systems.
- Perform capacity planning, performance analysis, forecasting, and infrastructure lifecycle management.
- Diagnose complex infrastructure problems involving storage, SAN, virtualization, operating systems, networking, and applications.
- Support automation and scripting to improve infrastructure deployment, configuration, monitoring, and operational efficiency.
- Create and maintain architecture diagrams, engineering standards, implementation plans, operational procedures, and technical documentation.
- Collaborate with application, database, network, security, backup, and infrastructure engineering teams.
- Provide technical leadership and mentoring to engineers and serve as a subject matter expert for enterprise storage and infrastructure technologies.
- Participate in production support and resolution of critical infrastructure incidents as required.
Benefits
- Competitive benefits
- Discretionary bonus based on individual and company performance
- Certain roles may be eligible for discretionary stock awards
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
