- 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.

- 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.

- Nice-to-Have Skills Description:

- 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.

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