Job Description: Pay Range: $50hr - $55hr
- 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. Disk over, Starfish, etc).
- High-performance storage solutions used in production (e.g. Power scale, Vast, Qumulo, NetApp, Quantum, Avid Nexis, Weka).
- High-performance file systems used in production (StorNext, OneFS, GPFS, Lustre).
- 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, Power shell, Bash.
- Candidate passion for engineering systems is visible to Candidate team, and stakeholders and in everything Candidate and Candidate team delivers.
- Candidate take engineering for the business seriously, and that will help Candidate make decisions that drive value every day.
- 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.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Author tools, and leverage open source, to automate tasks.
- Management of a 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 a petabyte-scale.
- Authentication toolsets such as Active Directory, LDAP.
- Data center, network, and application architectures.
Required Education:
- Bachelor of Science in CS or Electrical Engineering.
- 12+ years in Engineering or storage systems related to production.
- Storage management multiple tiers on-premise and cloud.
- Media entertainment experience is important to have.
- Scripting knowledge is important and open to languages.