Tuesday, 11 March 2014

Job Location: Seattle, WA



Engineering Leader, Data Services – ISD Core Engineering

Isilon Systems, a division of EMC Corporation, is the leader in scale-out storage systems. Isilon’s OneFS clustered storage and data management solutions drive unique business and economic value for customers by maximizing the performance of their mission critical applications, workflows, and processes. Isilon enables enterprises and research organizations world-wide to manage massive and rapidly growing amounts of file based data in a highly-scalable, easy-to-manage, and cost effective way.

This role has ownership of the products and services delivered by the Data Services team within Isilon’s Core Engineering Organization. The key success factors of this team’s charter include:

(1) responsible for distributing work most efficiently across the cluster, including optimizing the OneFS filesystem and parallelizing the job definitions to achieve that. This work includes repairing from node or drive failures, analyzing file-system utilization, enforcing dynamic hierarchy/tiering rules, and many more;

(2) access guards to protect critical data in a tamper-proof, immutable form and provide chain of custody that satisfy legal requirements from several industries; and

(3) asynchronous replication of data between multiple clusters to support disaster recovery and meet various customer RPOs/RTOs. This work includes optimizing the OneFS filesystem to support fast enumeration of change-set files and data-blocks, high-throughput transport mechanisms, bandwidth throttling, and more.

As the leader of this very talented, highly motivated group, you will provide product vision, business leadership and entrepreneurship, plus contribute positively as a member of Engineering’s Leadership Team to achieve goals division-wide.

You will use your strong technical competencies and operational savvy to take charge of the team responsible for these revenue generating products/services.

Success in this role will be defined by your ability to execute along the following lines:

- With diplomacy and credibility, lead and mentor a strong engineering team to operationally deliver on strategic milestones in future releases

- Be the internal and external voice of the team and clearly articulate in an audience-appropriate manner the issues at hand and the plan of action so as to engender confidence in the audience

- Advocate through your actions and leadership practices the Isilon core values which include: think customers first; deliver; be your best & expect the best

- Effectively set schedules and ensure successful delivery that is within budget

- Successfully recruit, develop and retain top tier engineering talent for Isilon and your team.

Qualifications:

- BS or MS in Computer Science or other technical degree is highly desired


Job ID: 98999BR
apply

0 comments:

Post a Comment