Sr Support Storage Systems

Project Description:

• We are looking for a hands-on Storage Systems Engineer for Large US hedge fund to support and improve large-scale Linux-based
• storage platforms. This role focuses on keeping production storage reliable and performant, troubleshooting
• filesystem and client-side issues, executing safe changes and migrations, and automating repetitive
• operational work. You will work closely with infrastructure, datacenter, vendor, and business teams across
• global environments.

Responsibilities:

• Maintain the reliability, performance, and availability of enterprise storage and filesystem services.
• Operate storage platforms such as GPFS / IBM Storage Scale, NFS, Pure, VAST, NetApp, and NAS,
• block, and object storage systems.
• Troubleshoot storage, filesystem, multipath, and storage client issues in production, including latency,
• contention, and capacity events.
• Monitor storage capacity, performance, and growth trends; respond to incidents and service degradations.
• Manage quotas, snapshots, replication, tiering, and data lifecycle policies.
• Perform production changes, firmware and software upgrades, data migrations, and remediation with
• strong operational discipline.
• • Support backup, recovery, and disaster recovery processes and periodic restore testing.
• • Develop scripts and automation tools using Python, Bash, or similar technologies.
• • Work with hardware vendors, datacenter teams, and internal stakeholders to resolve issues quickly.
• • Improve monitoring, alerting, runbooks, and operational processes.
• • Participate in incident response and occasional on-call support.

Mandatory Skills Description:

• 3+ years of experience in storage engineering, storage operations, or Linux infrastructure with significant
• storage responsibility.
• Good knowledge of storage technologies across file, block, and object storage.
• Solid Linux systems administration and production support skills.
• Understanding of storage client behavior, including NFS mounts, automount, multipath, and filesystem
• tuning.
• Understanding of networking fundamentals as they relate to storage, including DNS, throughput, and
• latency troubleshooting.
• Experience troubleshooting live issues using logs, metrics, and command-line tools.
• • Scripting and automation experience with tools such as Python, Bash, Ansible, Salt, or Terraform.
• • Strong communication, teamwork, and the ability to work effectively under pressure.
• • Comfortable working close to production and solving real operational problems.
• • Able to balance urgent incident response with long-term platform improvements.
• • Organized, proactive, and careful with risk, change control, and communication.