Senior Storage Systems Engineer — Hybrid Cloud

The Walt Disney Company

Glendale, New York (CA, NY)

On-site

USD 119,000 - 167,000

Full time

2 days ago

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Job summary

The Walt Disney Company is seeking a Senior (P3) Systems Engineer focused on storage for Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology in Glendale, CA and New York, NY. You’ll build and operate large-scale multi‑protocol storage platforms across hybrid environments, driving automation, reliability, and security in a fast-paced tech organization.

Responsibilities include provisioning storage, automating workflows with Terraform/Ansible, and partnering with SRE, compute, and network teams to

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in a technical field or equivalent experience.
5+ years in systems/platform operations with a focus on storage (block/file/object).
Hands-on experience with large-scale storage (SAN/NAS/NFS and S3‑compatible).
Experience with VMware/Hyper‑V/KVM and Kubernetes runtimes.
Scripting or IaC (Terraform, Ansible, PowerShell, Bash) to automate storage tasks.
Solid Linux fundamentals and networking basics.
Comfort with 24×7 operations and change/incident processes.

Responsibilities

Provision & operate storage platforms across block/file/object storage following reference architectures.
Automate workflows using IaC and scripting; maintain runbooks.
Monitor, troubleshoot storage performance, and maintain SLOs; incident response involvement.
Patch, secure platforms, and coordinate with security for remediation.
Decommission legacy storage and manage data lifecycle and backups.
Collaborate with compute, network, and product teams to ensure clean integrations.