Sr Storage Engineer at Versant

New York, New York, United States -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

14 Sep, 26

Salary

143000.0

Posted On

16 Jun, 26

Experience

5 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

Pure Storage, NetApp, Dell/EMC Isilon, SAN, NAS, Storage Architecture, Disaster Recovery, Storage Networking, Performance Tuning, Data Protection, Hybrid Cloud, Capacity Planning, Virtualization, Container Environments, Root Cause Analysis, SLA Management

Industry

Marketing Services

Description

Company Description VERSANT (Nasdaq: VSNT) is an industry-changing media and entertainment business and home to trusted brands that shape culture, inform audiences, and build lasting connections. It operates across four core markets: political news and opinion, business news and personal finance, golf, and sports and genre entertainment. These markets are served through a powerful portfolio of iconic and innovative brands, including CNBC, MS NOW, USA Network, Golf Channel, Oxygen, E!, SYFY, and Versant’s sports division USA Sports, along with complementary digital assets including Fandango, Rotten Tomatoes, GolfNow and GolfPass. Job Description The Senior Storage Engineer is responsible for the design, implementation, and operation of VERSANT’s enterprise storage platforms across multiple geographic data centers. This role supports large-scale storage environments used by critical media, production, and business systems, ensuring high availability, performance, and reliability. The engineer will manage and optimize enterprise SAN and NAS storage platforms, with a strong focus on Pure Storage, NetApp, and Dell/EMC Isilon systems. The role includes designing scalable storage architectures, supporting high-throughput workloads, managing replication and disaster recovery across sites, and maintaining operational excellence across distributed environments. This is a hands-on engineering role requiring deep technical expertise in enterprise storage platforms, storage networking, and performance optimization. The engineer will partner closely with infrastructure, compute, virtualization, and cloud teams to ensure storage services support both traditional data center workloads and evolving hybrid cloud environments. Key Responsibilities Storage Platform Engineering Design, deploy, and manage enterprise storage solutions across multiple geographic data centers. Architect and operate large-scale SAN and NAS storage environments supporting critical enterprise and media workloads. Manage and maintain storage systems including: Pure Storage NetApp Dell/EMC Isilon Plan and execute storage capacity growth, upgrades, and lifecycle management. Storage Architecture & Performance Design storage architectures optimized for performance, availability, and scalability. ·Support high-throughput workloads common in media and digital production environments. Perform storage performance analysis, tuning, and troubleshooting. Ensure storage systems meet operational SLAs for performance and reliability. Data Protection & Disaster Recovery Implement and maintain replication, snapshot, and backup strategies across geographically distributed storage systems. Design and support disaster recovery solutions across data centers. Ensure data protection policies align with business continuity requirements. Storage Networking & Integration Support SAN fabrics and storage networking infrastructure. Integrate storage platforms with compute, virtualization, and container environments. Collaborate with network and infrastructure teams to ensure reliable connectivity and performance. Operations & Support Monitor storage infrastructure and proactively address performance or capacity issues. Troubleshoot complex storage and data access problems. Participate in incident response and root cause analysis. Maintain documentation and operational standards for storage platforms. Collaboration & Modernization Partner with infrastructure, virtualization, and cloud teams to support evolving hybrid architectures. Support initiatives to modernize storage platforms and improve operational automation. Evaluate emerging storage technologies and recommend improvements. Qualifications Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience. 7+ years of experience in enterprise storage engineering or storage infrastructure roles. Deep hands-on expertise with enterprise storage platforms including: Pure Storage NetApp Dell/EMC Isilon Strong experience managing both SAN and NAS storage architectures. Experience supporting large-scale storage environments across multiple geographic data centers. Strong understanding of storage networking technologies and SAN fabrics. Experience with storage replication, disaster recovery, and data protection strategies. Strong troubleshooting and performance tuning skills for enterprise storage systems. Experience integrating storage platforms with virtualization and compute environments. Experience with hybrid cloud or cloud-adjacent storage architectures is a plus. Excellent communication and collaboration skills. Additional Information As part of our selection process, external candidates may be required to attend an in-person interview with a VERSANT Media employee at one of our locations prior to a hiring decision. VERSANT Media's policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, gender identity or expression, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, membership in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law. If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran and require support throughout the application and/or recruitment process as a result of your disability, you have the right to request a reasonable accommodation. You can submit your request to [email protected]. VERSANT Media is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. We include a good faith pay range for each position to comply with applicable state and local pay transparency laws and to promote equity across our organization. Actual compensation will be based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, experience, and location and may include additional forms of compensation and benefits such as health insurance, retirement plans, paid time off, etc. VERSANT Media is not accepting unsolicited assistance from search firms for this employment opportunity. All resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at VERSANT via-email, the Internet, or in any form and/or method without a valid written Statement of Work in place for this position from VERSANT's Talent Acquisition team will be deemed the sole property of VERSANT. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by VERSANT as a result of the referral or through other means. Business Segment: Versant O&T Compensation: USD 119000 - USD 143000 - yearly

Responsibilities

Design, implement, and operate enterprise SAN and NAS storage platforms across multiple geographic data centers to support critical media and business systems. Manage storage capacity, performance optimization, and disaster recovery strategies to ensure high availability and reliability.