Senior Storage & Data Protection Engineer

SmartChoice International GCC; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 400,000 - 700,000; Full time

Job summary

SmartChoice International GCC is seeking an experienced Storage & Data Protection Engineer to lead the design, implementation and optimization of large-scale storage across cloud and high-performance environments.

You will act as a senior technical reference for storage, backup and data protection, collaborating with architecture, platform engineering, security and operations to ensure performance, availability and security of critical platforms.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology or a related discipline.
• 7+ years of hands‑on experience designing, implementing and managing enterprise storage and data protection environments.
• 2+ years of experience leading or mentoring infrastructure engineers, with responsibility for technical quality and delivery.
• Strong hands‑on experience with software‑defined storage across block, file and object storage.
• Experience working with enterprise storage platforms and modern distributed storage technologies.
• Strong understanding of storage protocols and interfaces, including NFS, S3, iSCSI and NVMe‑based technologies.
• Strong Linux administration skills, including experience troubleshooting complex storage and infrastructure issues.

Responsibilities

• Lead the implementation, management and lifecycle of large-scale block, file and object storage platforms across cloud and infrastructure environments.
• Work closely with architecture and platform engineering teams on technology evaluation, solution design and integration.
• Support the delivery of storage roadmaps, technical standards and ongoing platform improvements.
• Lead capacity planning to ensure storage environments can support current and future business requirements.
• Identify potential failure points and implement improvements to availability, reliability and operational resilience.
• Analyse storage performance and implement optimisation strategies covering throughput, latency, efficiency and resource utilisation.
• Evaluate and implement modern software‑defined, distributed and clustered storage technologies.
• Design and implement data protection and disaster recovery solutions, ensuring data integrity, availability and recoverability.
• Develop and improve storage monitoring, observability, logging and alerting capabilities.
• Provide Level 3 technical support, including complex troubleshooting, root cause analysis, incident resolution and escalation management.
• Work with technology vendors on complex technical issues and support cases where required.
• Lead, mentor and support storage engineers, ensuring strong technical standards and knowledge sharing.
• Work closely with security teams to ensure storage and backup platforms are appropriately secured, hardened and compliant.
• Create and maintain technical documentation, implementation guides, operational procedures, architecture diagrams and knowledge articles.
• Work with operations and service teams to improve support processes, workflows and overall service quality.

Skills

Python

Bash

Go

Troubleshooting

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science/Engineering/IT

Tools

OpenStack

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Job description

SmartChoice International GCC is seeking an experienced Storage & Data Protection Engineer to lead the design, implementation and optimization of large-scale storage across cloud and high-performance environments.

You will act as a senior technical reference for storage, backup and data protection, collaborating with architecture, platform engineering, security and operations to ensure performance, availability and security of critical platforms.