Storage Automation Engineer

Summary

Posted: Feb 20, 2025

Role Number:200592320

Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming extraordinary products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish. Multifaceted, excellent and inspiring people, innovative technologies are the norm here! Will you join us in crafting solutions that do not yet exist? In The Hardware Technology Group we have an opportunity available for a customer service oriented, and motivated Storage Engineer to join our operations team. The ideal candidate we are looking for should possess excellent interpersonal skills as well as an understanding of complex storage systems, Linux compute clusters, and the infrastructure used to support a large scale HPC. Join us, and you will run and expand the existing compute and storage infrastructure used by the geographically diverse silicon design teams within Apple!

Description

Perform implementation, maintenance, monitoring, performance analysis, proactive troubleshooting, and continual improvement of the storage and compute infrastructure Participate in regular on-call rotations Drive automation of the implementation, maintenance, and alerting of the storage environment Deploy and maintain a storage infrastructure that requires 24/7 global accessibility Participate in programs to deploy POC systems for evaluation and testing Design / implement automated storage provisioning workflows leveraging bash, Perl, Python, or Ruby Leverage RESTful API integrations for automated orchestration of storage resources Automate manual and repetitive steps to reduce overhead e.g. replication / backup / recovery processes Review entire environment and implement initiatives to reduce failures, defects and improving overall performance Perform tasks that require different perspectives and creative approaches

Minimum Qualifications

A large compute environment. EDA, Finance, Special Effects/Animation, Oil & Gas, Scientific Research or R&D environments preferred
Enterprise storage administration
NFS, NAS, and D2D appliances (NetApp or Pure preferred)
A multi-site storage environment
Site-to-site data replication and WAN optimization
Trouble shooting a high-uptime, high-availability environment
Monitoring systems (Prometheus, Grafana, Nagios, Zenoss, Sensu); identifying anomalies, and triggering alerts
Revision control systems (SVN, Git, Perforce)
Troubleshooting performance issues on the filers by collecting Core Dump and Perfstats
Centralized configuration management (Puppet, Ansible, Chef)
Knowledge of basic Linux system administration (Red Hat/CentOS preferred)
Understanding of Layer 2 / Layer 3 networking (Arista / Cisco preferred)
Knowledge of common application protocols like DNS, LDAP, SNMP, DHCP, NTP
Must be analytical and possess strong organization / problem-solving skills

Preferred Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree, preferably in computer science, information technology, or a related field