Storage Engineer

About the role

We are seeking a Storage Engineer to design, implement, and maintain enterprise-grade storage infrastructure across on-premises and cloud environments. This role focuses on delivering high-performance, scalable, and secure storage solutions that support mission-critical applications and large-scale data services.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect and implement scalable storage infrastructure for diverse workloads
• Monitor storage performance, reliability, and capacity utilization
• Design and execute data protection and disaster recovery strategies
• Collaborate with infrastructure teams to ensure seamless storage integration
• Participate in storage-related incident response, troubleshooting, and resolution

Required Skills & Experience

Cloud-Native Storage

• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes storage solutions (Ceph, Longhorn, Linstor)
• Implementation and management of CSI drivers
• Persistent volume management and storage class design

Enterprise Storage Hardware

• Experience with enterprise storage platforms such as Dell PowerScale (Isilon) or equivalent
• Storage array configuration, tuning, and lifecycle management
• Hardware troubleshooting and capacity planning

File & Block Storage

• Design and maintenance of large-scale NFS/SMB environments
• High-performance storage architecture and optimization
• Implementation of block storage protocols (iSCSI, etc.)
• Storage networking and multipathing configuration

Object Storage

• Deployment and management of S3-compatible solutions (vendor-based or self-hosted)
• Experience with MinIO and Ceph Object Gateway
• Object storage lifecycle policies and tiering strategies

Security & Access Control

• RBAC-based storage security implementation
• Data encryption at rest and in transit
• Access control policies and audit compliance

Hardware & RAID

• Configuration and management of server-based RAID systems
• Storage hardware performance tuning
• Disk failure handling and replacement procedures

Data Protection

• Large-scale backup solution design and implementation
• Disaster recovery planning for petabyte-scale environments
• Data retention and compliance policy implementation

Preferred Qualifications

• Storage vendor certifications (Dell, NetApp, HPE, etc.)
• Experience with software-defined storage platforms
• Familiarity with storage performance benchmarking and analysis tools