Internet Services

Senior Storage Engineer

Reston, VAHybridFull TimeSenior$164,300–$222,300 /yrPosted 9 days agoVisa sponsorship available

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Required skills

highly available infrastructure
enterprise storage
SAN
NAS
VMware virtualization
Linux
data protection
disaster recovery
business continuity
block storage

Nice to have

AIX
Netapp
S3-compatible storage

Role summary

Verisign is seeking an experienced Senior Storage Engineer in Reston, VA, for a hybrid role. This position focuses on implementing, operating, and improving highly available enterprise infrastructure for mission-critical services. The ideal candidate will possess deep technical expertise in enterprise storage, SAN/NAS, VMware, Linux, data protection, and disaster recovery. Responsibilities include engineering and administering storage platforms, maintaining high availability across data centers, supporting various storage vendors and virtualization environments, and implementing automation. The role also involves providing technical leadership, mentoring, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to resolve complex infrastructure issues and ensure system resilience and efficiency.

Verisign helps enable the security, stability, and resiliency of the internet. We are a trusted provider of internet infrastructure services for the networked world and deliver unmatched performance in domain name system (DNS) services.

We are a mission focused, values driven company where each individual can contribute to building a stronger, more secure internet. We offer a dynamic and flexible work environment with competitive benefits and the ability to grow your career.

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.

Verisign is an equal opportunity employer. That means we recruit, hire, compensate, train, promote, transfer, and administer all terms and conditions of employment without regard to their race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, protected veteran status, disability, or other protected categories under applicable law.

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Palindrome After Deleting One Character Determine if a string can be a palindrome after deleting at most one character. Input: s = "abc" Output: FALSE Explanation: Deleting any single character leaves either "ab", "bc", or "ac", none of which result in a valid palindrome.
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Merge a New Interval Merge a new interval into a list of non-overlapping intervals. Input: intervals = [[1,2],[3,5],[6,7],[8,10],[12,16]], newInterval = [4,8] Output: [[1,2],[3,10],[12,16]] Explanation: The new interval overlaps with [3,5], [6,7], and [8,10], merging them all into the unified block [3,10].
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