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The ideal candidate will bring deep systems-level expertise, strong ownership, and the ability to operate independently across customer support, product engineering, QA, and release operations.\n\nResponsibilities: \nStorNext Sustaining Engineering Leadership: Serve as a senior technical owner for StorNext software in production, with primary responsibility for Storage Manager and supporting responsibility for StorNext filesystem-related issues, including:\nLead root-cause analysis and resolution of complex customer escalations, including crash dumps, field logs, and difficult-to-reproduce production issues.\nPartner with product management and senior engineering stakeholders to evaluate feature requests, technical feasibility, risk, and long-term maintainability.\nDrive platform modernization efforts required to support new major Red Hat, Linux distribution, Windows, and other operating system releases.\nOwn and provide technical direction for critical legacy and sustaining components, including snauditlogs, TSM/MSM Legacy GUI (Java code), and third-party packages. 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