Senior Storage Systems Engineer - Hybrid On-Prem/Cloud

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology; Glendale (CA); On-site; USD 119,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

The Walt Disney Company is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer focused on storage platforms in Glendale, CA. You will design, automate, and operate large-scale multi-protocol storage systems across on-prem and cloud environments, ensuring reliability and security.

You will implement reference architectures, build automation, monitor performance, and participate in incident response, collaborating with SREs and other teams to maintain 5-9 availability and rapid problem resolution.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years in systems/platform operations with storage focus.
• Hands-on experience with large-scale storage systems (SAN/NAS/NFS and S3-compatible).
• Working knowledge of VMware/Hyper-V/KVM and Kubernetes/container runtimes as storage consumers.
• Scripting or IaC (Terraform, Ansible, PowerShell, Bash) to automate storage tasks.
• Strong Linux fundamentals and networking basics; 24x7 operations experience.

Responsibilities

• Provision and operate storage platforms across block/file/object storage.
• Automate workflows using IaC and scripting; maintain runbooks.
• Monitor, troubleshoot storage performance and capacity; keep SLOs green.
• Patch and secure platforms; document results and coordinate with security.
• Participate in on-call incident response; restore services quickly.
• Decommission legacy storage, manage data lifecycle and backups.
• Collaborate with compute/network/identity teams for reliable changes.
• Communicate status clearly; seek reviews and mentor feedback.

Skills

5+ years experience

Storage systems

VMware/KVM/Kubernetes

Scripting/IaC

Linux fundamentals

24x7 operations

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

PowerShell

Bash

VMware

Kubernetes

Job description

The Walt Disney Company is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer focused on storage platforms in Glendale, CA. You will design, automate, and operate large-scale multi-protocol storage systems across on-prem and cloud environments, ensuring reliability and security.

You will implement reference architectures, build automation, monitor performance, and participate in incident response, collaborating with SREs and other teams to maintain 5-9 availability and rapid problem resolution.