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Senior Storage Systems Engineer

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Blizzard is actively seeking a full time Senior Storage Systems Engineer to join our Infrastructure Engineering team in Irvine, CA. Your focus will be to build and support infrastructure which reliably stores and protects the data that powers all of Blizzard’s online games. You are comfortable working in all aspects of storage engineering and administration: IP and Fibre Channel networking, traditional storage arrays, scale out storage technologies, and backup/data protection systems. While supporting our existing storage infrastructure you will help evolve our team to be a storage service provider for our private cloud environment. Our environment is diverse; we have traditional storage arrays providing backing storage for many large databases, multi-petabyte scale File storage solutions, as well as scale-out storage systems providing block and object services for Blizzard’s private cloud. As such, you’ll also need some advanced Linux skills to install, maintain and configure storage software running on commodity server hardware.

If you would like to join us on our journey to becoming an extraordinary service provider, read on to find out exactly what kind of engineer we are looking for. We would love to hear from you!

Covid-19 Hiring Update: We’ve transitioned to a work-from-home model and we’re continuing to interview and hire during this time. This role is expected to begin as a remote position. We understand each person’s circumstances may be unique and will work with you to explore possible interim options.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provide analysis, design and direction regarding storage performance and capacity management services of our software defined and traditional storage environments
• Compare and contrast multiple vendor storage solutions in detailed proof of concept tests to identify superior solutions
• Design robust storage and backup solutions to meet demanding organizational and application specific SLAs including, but not limited to, HA, RTO/RPO, offsite requirements and disaster recovery to Blizzard owned datacenters or public cloud providers.
• Lead and coordinate the engineering phases of storage solution delivery including planning, design, buildout, testing, procurement, and transition to operational support
• Streamline and automate existing storage administrative processes, improve reliability, and reduce the cost per gigabyte across multiple storage platforms
• Undertake complex projects requiring specialized knowledge of storage technologies, services, and applications
• Data informed approach. Use comprehensive data and metrics collection on performance and reliability aspects of the systems you were responsible for. You will do most of the heavily lifting for this yourself (writing scripts, calling APIs, etc) instead of relying on a vendor-provided solution
• Engage customers (private cloud teams, game teams, SRE) to understand their challenges and collaborate to solve them in creative ways.

REQUIREMENTS

• Minimum 5+ years of experience supporting storage environments with high IO and throughput production workloads
• Implement and support scale out block storage (PowerFlexOS, Ceph, Hedvig, etc) as well as contributing to design and planning
• Design, implement, and support deployments of large web scale object storage technologies (Swift, ECS, Scality, etc)
• Experience working with file storage technologies at a large scale (Isilon, NetApp, Qumulo, etc)
• A deep understanding of Linux systems, in the context of storage, as well as general system tuning and administration
• Minimum 5+ years of experience working in and supporting large scale Linux environments
• Comprehensive understanding of how storage on a network works, and how to correct network problems to provide high I/O and reliability
• Ability to perform basic network troubleshooting and administrative tasks in a primarily Cisco environment
• Working understanding and ability to support a variety of file and network storage protocols including Fiber Channel, NFS, iSCSI, SMB
• Able to automate tasks using a scripting language such as Python (preferred), Bash, Ruby or through configuration management like Puppet, Ansible, Saltstack
• Ability to influence colleagues, clearly and concisely explain complex problems, and enjoy collaborating with peers and customers

PLUSES

• Experience with OpenStack Swift concepts and fundamentals
• Proficiency with popular orchestration and configuration management systems like Puppet, Ansible, and Terraform
• Experience deploying and supporting enterprise storage arrays
• Experience with services from public cloud providers like AWS, Azure, and GCP in hybrid storage environments—some data on-premise, some data in public cloud (S3, GCS, Glacier, etc.)
• BS in Computer Science or related IT field
• A passion for making Blizzard games the best in the world!

Blizzard Entertainment is a global company committed to growing our employees. We offer generous benefits and perks with an eye on providing true work / life balance. We’ve worked hard to champion an intensely collaborative and creative environment, a diverse and inclusive employee culture, and training and opportunity for professional growth. Our people are everything. Our core values are real, and our mission has never changed.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We are dedicated to creating the most epic entertainment experiences…ever. Join us!