- 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.
Additional Information
Staffing agency policy: No fees will be paid for unsolicited resumes submitted to Verisign or our employees by third parties.