Storage Engineer

A financial firm is looking for a Storage Engineer to join their team. This role is remote.

Compensation: $-K

Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, automate and maintain global storage solutions, including SAN, NAS and local object storage and backup systems.
• Monitor, analyze, and troubleshoot: Storage System storage performance and capacity issues. Fabric Systems performance and capacity. Configure and manage storage replication, snapshots, and cloning technologies.
• Automate storage provisioning and DR failover with reporting and diagnostic upkeep.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, network, database, and application teams to understand storage needs and ensure alignment with business goals.
• Automate data protection and compliance checks.
• Conduct regular audits of storage environments to optimize for performance, scalability and cost.
• Develop and maintain documentation related to storage architectures, processes, and procedures.
• Participate in on-call rotation and provide tier-3 support for critical storage-related incidents.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, related field, or equivalent work experience.
• 10 years of experience in enterprise storage engineering and operations.
• Deep technical knowledge in storage systems (e.g., Dell EMC, NetApp, Pure Storage, Hitachi).
• Deep understanding of protocols like iSCSI, NFS, SMB/CIFS, Fibre Channel, and object storage (S3, Swift).
• Strong Database Storage Engineering knowledge.
• Strong understanding of application performance and recovery on large/small storage systems.
• Strong background in automation is a must.
• Strong understanding of performance metrics (e.g. IOPS, Latency, throughput).
• Experience in a high-performance environment including low latency database.
• Experience with backup/recovery solutions (e.g., Rubrik and Veeam).
• Top level debugging skills, on Windows and Linux systems.
• Knowledge of cloud storage services (Netapp StorageGrid AWS S3/EBS, Azure Blob Storage, Google Cloud Storage) and hybrid architectures.
• Knowledge in security and data encryption methods and practices.
• Excellent troubleshooting skills and a methodical approach to problem-solving.
• Strong communication skills and ability to work collaboratively in a team environment.