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The ideal candidate will combine expertise in storage systems, Linux, automation, performance engineering, and infrastructure operations to ensure reliable and efficient access to critical datasets and model artifacts across enterprise-scale environments.\nThis is a hands-on engineering role involving storage architecture, performance optimization, automation, observability, and production support.\nKey Responsibilities\nDesign, deploy, and support distributed file systems and object storage platforms used by large-scale AI, analytics, and HPC workloads.\n\nManage storage environments supporting shared research, analytics, model training datasets, and checkpoint storage requirements.\n\nTroubleshoot and optimize storage performance across metadata services, throughput, latency, caching, networking, and data-access patterns.\n\nBuild and maintain automation for provisioning, capacity expansion, upgrades, recovery processes, and lifecycle management.\n\nManage data movement, replication, migration, and synchronization across multiple clusters, regions, and cloud environments while maintaining security and data integrity.\n\nDevelop tooling and automation to improve storage operations, scalability, monitoring, and reliability.\n\nPartner with platform engineering, infrastructure, security, and development teams to ensure highly available and resilient storage services.\n\nParticipate in on-call support, incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous service improvement initiatives.\n\nImplement observability, alerting, health monitoring, testing strategies, and controlled production rollouts.\n\nRequired Skills & Experience\nStrong experience designing, operating, or supporting large-scale distributed storage platforms, high-performance file systems, or enterprise data infrastructure.\n\nDeep hands-on Linux administration and troubleshooting experience.\n\nStrong understanding of file systems, storage protocols, networking, concurrency, and performance optimization.\n\nExperience diagnosing production issues related to storage performance, data access, throughput bottlenecks, and system reliability.\n\nHands-on programming or automation experience using one or more of the following:\nPython\n\nGo\n\nC++\n\nRust\n\nExperience driving end-to-end reliability improvements, performance optimization initiatives, or large-scale operational enhancements.\n\nStrong debugging, analytical, and problem-solving skills.\n\nExperience working in highly available production environments with operational ownership responsibilities.\n\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience with Kubernetes, container orchestration platforms, and cloud-native infrastructure.\n\nStrong understanding of distributed filesystem concepts including metadata management, caching, consistency, failover, recovery, and high availability.\n\nHands-on experience with one or more enterprise storage technologies such as:\nLustre\n\nZFS / OpenZFS\n\nVAST Data\n\nPure Storage\n\nHammerspace\n\nSimilar large-scale distributed storage platforms\n\nExperience supporting AI, Machine Learning, Data Engineering, or HPC infrastructures.\n\nUnderstanding of high-throughput data ingestion, checkpoint management, data staging, and accelerator-cluster storage requirements.\n\nExperience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automation tools including:\nTerraform\n\nHelm\n\nKubernetes Operators\n\nExperience implementing observability and monitoring solutions using metrics, logging, tracing, benchmarking, and capacity-planning tools.\n\nFamiliarity with object storage technologies, S3-compatible storage, lifecycle management, tiering, replication, and cross-region data movement.\n\nPreferred Profile\n5+ years of experience in Storage Engineering, Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Infrastructure Engineering, HPC Operations, or Cloud Infrastructure.\n\nExperience in enterprise-scale production environments supporting mission-critical workloads.\n\nStrong communication skills and ability to collaborate with globally distributed engineering teams.\n\nSelf-driven engineer with a passion for automation, reliability, scalability, and operational excellence.\n\nThe pay range for this role is USD $140,000- $160,000 per annum including any bonuses or variable pay. Tech Mahindra also offers benefits like medical, vision, dental, life, disability insurance and paid time off (including holidays, parental leave, and sick leave, as required by law). Ask our recruiters for more details on our Benefits package. The exact offer terms will depend on the skill level, educational qualifications, experience and location of the candidate.\nAI tools may assist in the recruitment process; however, all hiring decisions are made by the recruitment team based on a comprehensive evaluation of candidates.\n“Tech Mahindra is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We promote and support a diverse workforce at all levels of the company. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, age, national origin, or disability. All applicants will be evaluated solely on the basis of their ability, competence, and performance of the essential functions of their positions with or without reasonable accommodations. Reasonable accommodations also are available in the hiring process for applicants with disabilities. 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