Linux System Administrator – Storage Engineer

About the role

We are seeking a hands‑on Storage Systems Engineer to support and improve large‑scale Linux‑based storage platforms for a leading US hedge fund. The role is focused on keeping production storage reliable and performant, troubleshooting filesystem and client‑side issues, and automating repetitive operational work.

Key responsibilities

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

Required profile

• 3+ years of experience in storage engineering, storage operations, or Linux infrastructure with significant storage responsibility.
• Strong Linux systems administration and production support skills.
• Good knowledge of storage technologies across file, block, and object storage.
• Understanding of storage client behavior (NFS mounts, automount, multipath, filesystem tuning).
• Familiarity with networking fundamentals related to storage (DNS, throughput, latency troubleshooting).
• Experience troubleshooting live issues using logs, metrics, and command‑line tools.
• Excellent communication, teamwork, and ability to work under pressure.

Required skills

• GPFS / IBM Storage Scale
• NFS
• Pure Storage
• VAST Storage
• NetApp
• Linux administration
• Python
• Bash
• Ansible
• Salt
• Terraform