Storage Engineer
This is an opportunity to work at the intersection of large-scale storage, automation, cloud infrastructure, and engineering excellence. You'll partner directly with developers, business stakeholders, and technical leaders to design, manage, and optimize storage solutions that support demanding, data-intensive workloads. Inspired by engineering-driven organizations, this role emphasizes reliability, automation, observability, and continuous improvement.
What You'll Do
- Engineer, maintain, and scale enterprise storage platforms across on-premises and cloud environments.
- Manage block, file, and object storage solutions while ensuring performance, availability, and efficiency.
- Develop automation for storage provisioning, lifecycle management, and operational workflows using Infrastructure as Code principles.
- Design and implement monitoring, alerting, and observability solutions focused on storage health, capacity, and performance.
- Partner with application teams to guide storage architecture decisions and establish best practices.
- Drive disaster recovery and business continuity initiatives through automated testing and validation processes.
- Establish governance standards, acceptable usage patterns, and operational controls across storage environments.
- Troubleshoot complex storage, networking, and operating system issues in Linux and Windows environments.
- Participate in on-call rotations and support critical infrastructure maintenance activities.
- Champion engineering best practices, automation, and operational excellence across the organization.
Technology Environment
You will work with a modern infrastructure stack that includes:
- AWS EBS, FSx for NetApp, and Amazon S3
- Pure Storage and VAST Data platforms
- NFS, SMB/CIFS, and iSCSI protocols
- RDMA over Ethernet
- VMware, AWS EC2, Kubernetes
- Linux (physical and virtual)
- Windows Server
- Python
- Infrastructure as Code and configuration management tooling
- Monitoring and observability platforms
What We're Looking For
Required Experience
- 6+ years of hands-on experience supporting large-scale storage environments.
- Strong expertise with enterprise file, block, and object storage technologies.
- Deep understanding of storage protocols, performance tuning, and operating system interactions.
- Experience supporting low-latency or high-performance computing environments.
- Strong Python scripting and automation skills.
- Experience with disaster recovery, backup, and business continuity planning.
- Experience working with Linux-based infrastructure.
- Knowledge of Kubernetes, cloud platforms, and modern infrastructure operations.
- Excellent troubleshooting, communication, and project management skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with NetApp, Pure Storage, or VAST Data.
- Experience with Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Chef, SaltStack, or similar automation frameworks.
- Familiarity with CI/CD practices and tools such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or ArgoCD.
- Experience building observability and monitoring solutions for enterprise infrastructure.
Who You Are
- A self-starter who takes ownership and thrives in a fast-paced, engineering-focused environment.
- Passionate about automation, reliability, and operational excellence.
- Equally comfortable collaborating with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- A team player who mentors others and raises the standard of engineering across the organization.
- Motivated by solving complex infrastructure challenges at scale.
Why Join Us?
You'll become part of a highly collaborative engineering culture where innovation, automation, and continuous improvement are valued. You'll have the opportunity to work on mission-critical infrastructure, influence long-term technology strategy, and help shape the future of a rapidly growing storage platform supporting some of the most demanding workloads in the industry.
Apply today to help build and operate the next generation of enterprise storage infrastructure.
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