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Storage Management Consultant

Duration: 12 months+

Role will be to provide high level storage management assessment and direction. Not a hands on position.

Additional Information

• 12+ years in Engineering or storage systems related to production.
• Location: Onsite 1-2 days per week in LA
• Important to have:
• Storage management-on multiple tiers on premise and cloud
• Media entertainment experience important to have
• Scripting-knowledge is important open to languages

Description:

We're looking for passionate engineers who love learning new technologies at a rapid pace. You should be intimately familiar with production systems, large scale data center infrastructure and public cloud. Lean, agile, collaborative teams is how we operate. We develop infrastructure-as-code. Automation should always do the work. You will be a part of the team that provides production tools, stewards standards adoption, cutting edge cloud, and infrastructure-as-code.

Your passion for engineering systems is visible to your team, stakeholders and in everything you and your team delivers. You take engineering for the business seriously, and that will help you make decisions that drive value every day.

You are:

• A master problem solver. You take deep pride in your work and view each new problem as an opportunity for success; you approach challenges creatively, but methodically.
• Comfortable with ambiguity. You face change with a cool head and persevere even if you don't have all the details; you're comfortable moving between projects and facing the uncertain because risk and change motivates you to evolve and innovate.
• Technically astute. You rapidly learn new skills, grasping complicated technical information that often leaves others lost whether it's product, industry, or hard tech knowledge, you absorb it quickly and are ready for more.
• Goal oriented. You develop and actualize creative vision, mission, and strategy into a cohesive outcome through capable team management, tactical execution, and unrelenting focus on daily progress; you connect production demand and technology strategies to the solutions you deliver

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 Disney 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
• Develop and evangelize testing methodologies for establishing baselines/benchmarks and troubleshooting processes
• Ensure security best practice is at the forefront is embedded in our DNA of all your design
• Effective at dealing with change: Able to transition in role or handle a significant modification or technology with minimal ramp-up time and with very little guidance

Basic Qualifications

• 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

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