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Insight Global

Storage Management/Consulting Engineer(media/film)

Insight Global, California, Missouri, United States, 65018


Post Date: Sep 13, 2024

Take the next step in your career now, scroll down to read the full role description and make your application.Location: Glendale, California, 91201, USJob Type: ContractCategory: System Administrator (LAX-734181)Pay Rate: $84 - $105 (hourly estimate)Job Description From movie concept to film production. Global premiere to direct to consumer mobile applications. You will innovate and deliver solutions that support a studio whose content is legendary and transcends generations.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 for all the studios under the Disney umbrella.Your passion for engineering systems is visible to your team, stakeholders, and in everything you and your team deliver. 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 motivate 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 and 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 very little guidance.We are a company committed to creating diverse and inclusive environments where people can bring their full, authentic selves to work every day. We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer that believes everyone matters. Qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment regardless of their race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital status, national origin, ancestry, genetic factors, age, disability, protected veteran status, military or uniformed service member status, or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances.If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or recruiting process, please send a request to HR@insightglobal.com.Minimum Qualifications

12 plus years in engineering or storage systems related to production.Location: Onsite 3 to 4 days per week in Burbank, California.Storage management on multiple tiers on premise and cloud.Media entertainment experience is important.Scripting knowledge in open languages.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 (e.g. 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.Bachelor of Science in CS or Electrical Engineering.Nice to Have Skills & Experience

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.Benefits Benefit packages for this role will start on the 31st day of employment and include medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as HSA, FSA, and DCFSA account options, and 401k retirement account access with employer matching. Employees in this role are also entitled to paid sick leave and/or other paid time off as provided by applicable law.Already a member or want to become one? Sign in and apply for this job.Apply as a GuestNot ready for a commitment yet? Submit your resume as a guest.Not a member yet? Sign up to save this job.

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