Senior Storage Engineer

Verisign•Reston, VA

7d•$164,300 - $222,300•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 allocations and services. The role is for a hands-on engineer with deep expertise in enterprise storage, SAN/NAS technologies, VMware virtualization, Linux, data protection, and disaster recovery/business continuity. The engineer will independently solve complex infrastructure problems and provide technical leadership across multiple technology domains. This position is based in Verisign’s Reston, Virginia office and offers a hybrid work schedule. The pay range is $164,300–$222,300 annually. Base pay may vary based on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Verisign offers a discretionary bonus based on individual and company performance, and certain roles may be eligible for discretionary stock awards.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in engineering or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
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 enterprise storage concepts, including block and file storage, RAID and data protection, thin provisioning, snapshots and clones, replication, storage efficiency technologies, performance analysis and optimization, capacity management, multipathing, and high availability and resiliency.
Experience administering Fibre Channel SAN fabrics.
Strong understanding of Fibre Channel concepts, including 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, with 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 technologies.
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 spanning 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 other 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.