Sr. Storage Management Engineer
- HCL America
222 Days Ago
65-70 per Hourly
NA
Burbank-CA
8-10 Years
Required Skills: Sr. Storage Management Engineer
Job Description
Role- Sr. Storage Management Engineer
Location- Burbank CA ( hybrid)
Onsite 1-2 days per week
Client : HCL America
Rate : $70/hour on C2C
Responsibilities
● Steward multi-disciplinary storage management policy standardization across public/private cloud and on-premises
● Gathering requirements from business stakeholders, senior leadership and engineering organizations for data lifecycle management
● Strategic long-term planning
● Conduct quarterly stakeholder reviews covering storage capacity planning, projecting future needs and socializing the optimized use of technologies
● Ensure timely Storage Utilization reports to stakeholders
● Budgetary/Fiscal planning regarding Total Cost of Ownership, Capital Purchasing and Maintenance Contracts
● Provide technical leadership, analysis and top-notch diagrams and documentation for consumption by executives and engineers
● Identify & evangelize new technologies, patterns, solutions, and best practices
● Managing vendors, describing customer’s business objectives, shaping product roadmaps and correcting engineer and support issues
● Lead and collaborate with internal and peer engineers to ensure solutions are designed to be cloud-native (when applicable), scalable, and easily operated
Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to describe context technology concepts in simple to understand language
● Operating systems and systems management (e.g. Linux, OSX, and Windows)
● File System or hierarchical file system concepts
● Subject matter expertise in storage lifecycle management
● Subject matter expertise in high speed transport technologies for Cloud to Cloud, On-Prem to Cloud and Cloud to On-Prem workflows (e.g. Aspera, Signiant)
● Experience with Unstructured Storage Analytics platforms (e.g. Diskover, Starfish, etc)
● High performance storage solutions used in production (e.g. Powerscale, Vast, Qumulo, NetApp, Quantum, Avid Nexis, Weka)
● High performance file systems used in production (StorNext, OneFS, GPFS, Lustre)
● On-Premise to cloud backup systems (e.g. Rubrik NAS Direct, Atempo, Flex*, Datasync, Commvault)
● Cloud Storage Vendors, Technologies and Lifecycles (e.g. S3, Glacier, FSX, EFS, Blob, Wasabi, Object, Block, Lustre)
● File System Authorization Schemes (POSIX, ACLs)
● Subject Matter Expertise with File Sharing Protocols (NFS, SMB, DLC)
● Media File Transport Solutions (e.g. Signiant, Aspera)
● Hosting virtualization technologies (e.g. VMWare, KVM)
● File/Storage Security (Encryption-At-Rest, Least Privileged Access)
● Compression/De-duplication Technologies
● Scripting and development languages, including Python, PERL, Powershell, Bash
Preferred Qualifications
● Author tools, and leverage open source, to automate tasks
● Management of high-performance media environment, requiring high levels of automation
● Experience working in Film or TV production environments
● Strong project management and resource planning experience
● IP networking including performance-based troubleshooting
● Media Asset Management Systems
● Experience in Cloud/IaaS Environments (e.g. AWS, Azure, GCE)
● Experience with Storage Platforms for Cloud Native Kubernetes workflows
● Build systems, storage, and networks with Infrastructure-as-Code philosophies where applicable to be nimble and reusable
● Experience with data migration at petabyte scale
● Authentication tool-sets such as Active Directory, LDAP
● Data center, network, and application architectures
Required Education Bachelors of Science in CS or Electrical Engineering
Additional Information 12+ years in Engineering or storage systems related to production.
- Storage management-on multiple tiers on premise and cloud
- Media entertainment experience important to have
- Scripting-knowledge is important open to languages
