Senior Storage Engineer

We are seeking an experienced Senior Storage Engineer to implement, operate, and continuously improve highly available infrastructure supporting mission-critical enterprise allocations and services.

The ideal candidate will have deep technical expertise in enterprise storage, SAN/NAS technologies, VMware virtualization, Linux, data protection, and disaster recovery/business continuity. This position requires a highly experienced hands-on engineer capable of independently solving complex infrastructure problems and providing technical leadership across multiple technology domains.

Responsibilities:

• Implement, support, and optimize enterprise infrastructure supporting 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 enterprise storage 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
• Implement storage replication snapshots, data protection, backup, recovery, and disaster recovery solutions
• Maintain DR/BCP 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

Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in engineering or related technical field or equivalent practical experience
• 10+ years system and operation 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
  • 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, Infindat, VAST Data, and Netapp
• Strong experience with VMware vSphere/Esxi and enterprise virtualization environments
• Experience administering and troubleshooting (Linux, AIX)
• Experience designing and supporting backup, recovery, replication, disaster 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-compatibile 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

This position is based in our Reston, VA office and offers a hybrid work schedule.

The pay range is $164,300 - $222,300.

The anticipated annual base salary range for this position is noted above, however, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience. Verisign offers a discretionary bonus which is based on individual and company performance, and certain roles may be eligible for discretionary stock awards.