Senior Storage & Data Protection Engineer for AI Cloud

Core42; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 350,000 - 550,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Salary

Yearly Bonus

Discount Cards (Esaad/Fazaa)

Premium Family Insurance

Learning & Development

Job summary

Core42 is seeking a Senior Engineer - Storage and Data Protection to design, implement, and operate petabyte-scale storage and backup platforms across Cloud and HPC environments. You will work with architecture and engineering teams on evaluation, integration, and capacity planning, ensuring high performance, security and reliability.

The role requires hands-on expertise in software-defined storage, Linux, and modern backup technologies, with strong scripting and cloud-native tooling.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Software Engineering, or related technology field.
• 5+ years hands-on experience designing, implementing, and managing large-scale storage and data protection platforms.
• Strong hands-on experience with software-defined storage across block, file and object storage services.
• Experience with vendors such as HPE, Dell, NetApp, Hitachi, IBM, Pure Storage, or VAST Data.
• Good understanding of iSCSI, S3, NFS, Fibre Channel, FCoE, NVMe/TCP and related technologies.
• Proficiency in Linux administration and storage stack troubleshooting.
• Experience with object storage platforms (Ceph, Scality, MinIO, Cloudian, Qumulo S3, Dell ECS).
• OpenStack cloud backups like Trilio/Hystax/Rubrik/Zerto are a plus; OpenShift/Kubernetes with CSI/PVC knowledge.
• Experience with IAM integrations (PKI, LDAP, OAuth, OIDC) and data protection best practices.
• Knowledge of backup, DR, RPO/RTO, and recovery validation; encryption and security hardening.
• Networking fundamentals and data center concepts; monitoring/observability tools (Zabbix/Nagios/Prometheus/Grafana/ELK).
• Scripting/programming in Python/Go/Bash; familiarity with CI/CD and IaC.

Responsibilities

• Co-design and operate petabyte-scale block, file, and object storage solutions for Cloud and HPC environments.
• Collaborate on storage and backup technology evaluation, integration, and design.
• Perform capacity planning and forecasting to meet current and future demand.
• Implement changes to improve storage reliability, availability and resilience.
• Analyze storage performance and optimize throughput, latency and resource utilization.
• Provide expert support including on-call, root cause analysis, and vendor escalation.
• Ensure security, hardening and compliance of storage and backup platforms.
• Create and maintain technical documentation, implementation guides, runbooks and diagrams.
• Improve support workflows and collaboration with process and operations teams.

Skills

Linux admin

Python

Go

Bash

Storage design

Backup & DR

Networking basics

Security controls

Monitoring tools

CI/CD

IaC

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science / Engineering

Tools

OpenShift

Kubernetes

Docker

HPE

Dell

NetApp

Pure Storage

VAST Data

Red Hat Ceph

MinIO

Scality

Cloudian

Qumulo S3

Dell ECS

Job description

Core42 is seeking a Senior Engineer - Storage and Data Protection to design, implement, and operate petabyte-scale storage and backup platforms across Cloud and HPC environments. You will work with architecture and engineering teams on evaluation, integration, and capacity planning, ensuring high performance, security and reliability.

The role requires hands-on expertise in software-defined storage, Linux, and modern backup technologies, with strong scripting and cloud-native tooling.