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
general 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.

Skills

Must have

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.

Nice to have

Deep experience with GPFS / IBM Storage Scale, ESS, VAST, Pure, NetApp, or similar platforms.

Experience with SAN/NAS fabrics, RDMA or InfiniBand, and high-throughput data paths.

Familiarity with backup, replication, snapshots, quotas, and lifecycle policies at scale.

Exposure to cloud and hybrid storage, CI/CD, and DevOps workflows.

Experience with Kubernetes storage integration such as CSI drivers and persistent volumes.

Background supporting research, trading, HPC, or other high-availability environments.

Other

Languages

English: B2 Upper Intermediate

Seniority

Senior

Guadalajara, MX, Mexico

Req. VR-124359

Technical Support (SL3)

BCM Industry

03/08/2026

Req. VR-124359

📌 Senior Storage Systems Engineer (México)
🏢 Luxoft
📍 México