A leading global technology-driven firm is seeking a highly skilled Senior Platform Storage Engineer to join its expanding infrastructure team. This is an exciting opportunity to work on large-scale, enterprise-grade storage platforms supporting mission-critical environments with demanding performance and reliability requirements. The successful candidate will play a key role in designing, building, and operating distributed storage infrastructure that supports rapidly growing compute and data environments across global operations. This role is ideal for someone passionate about large-scale storage systems, automation, performance optimisation, and modern infrastructure engineering.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, deploy, and manage scalable distributed storage systems through automation, standardisation, testing, and monitoring
- Architect and maintain high-performance storage platforms including NFS, GPFS, WEKA, object storage, and related technologies
- Perform storage capacity planning, forecasting, and lifecycle management to optimise utilisation and efficiency
- Analyse storage performance metrics, identify bottlenecks, and implement tuning and optimisation strategies
- Develop and maintain automation tooling for provisioning, configuration management, and operational monitoring
- Partner closely with compute, networking, and application teams to ensure storage solutions meet performance and reliability requirements
- Improve observability, alerting, and incident response capabilities across storage environments
- Evaluate and integrate emerging storage technologies, including cloud-based storage services
- Ensure strong standards around data integrity, availability, backup, replication, and disaster recovery readiness
- Maintain clear documentation for storage architecture, operational procedures, and support runbooks
Required Experience
- 5+ years of experience within infrastructure engineering, with strong expertise in Linux and enterprise storage administration
- Deep understanding of distributed storage systems and storage protocols such as NFS, GPFS, WEKA, Lustre, Ceph, or similar technologies
- Experience with storage benchmarking, performance analysis, tuning, and optimisation
- Hands-on experience with infrastructure automation and configuration management tools such as Ansible or Chef
- Strong programming or scripting skills in Python, Go, Rust, or similar languages
- Familiarity with modern engineering practices including CI/CD, version control, and agile delivery methodologies
- Experience with observability and monitoring platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Elasticsearch, Kibana, or similar
- Exposure to cloud storage platforms and services across AWS and/or GCP environments
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related discipline
- Strong communication and collaboration skills
- Experience with object storage platforms such as MinIO, Cloudian, or S3-compatible technologies
- Knowledge of storage hardware technologies including NVMe, SSDs, disk arrays, HBAs, JBODs, and storage networking
Our client offers interesting projects, career progression opportunities and attractive remuneration structure.
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