Storage Engineer - tape library exp

W Solutions Co; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

W Solutions Co in Sydney CBD offers a full-time Storage Engineer role in a hybrid environment, focusing on enterprise storage in Linux and IAC.

You will deploy and manage data centres, storage, and network services, optimise data transmission efficiency, and design access interfaces for multi-protocol environments.

Candidates should have tertiary IT qualifications, strong experience across storage media to application layers, and familiarity with Linux monitoring tools and clustering.

Qualifications

• Experience with enterprise storage hardware, tapes and libraries.
• Skill in hierarchy storage management (HSM) for tape media.
• Proficient with Ansible for automation and provisioning.

Responsibilities

• Infrastructure Management: Deploy and manage data centres, storage, and network services
• Performance Analysis: Optimise data storage and transmission efficiency
• System Support: Maintain a secure, scalable, high-performance service
• Administration of storage, compute and cloud infrastructure
• Day-to-day maintenance of multi-petabyte storage systems (disk and tape)
• Capacity planning and usage trending
• Implement and manage auto-tiering and data replication
• Maintain storage life-cycle management and best practices
• Administer storage virtualization layers and HPC/cloud integration
• Troubleshoot system and storage performance issues
• Ensure robustness, security and scalability of infrastructure

Skills

Tape drives/libraries experience

HSM with tapes

Ansible

Education

Tertiary IT qualification

Tools

Zabbix

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

We are looking for a Storage Engineer who has significant experience in enterprise environments with working tape drives/libraries and hierarchy tape management. The environment is utilising Linux and IAC.

This is a full time role, Sydney CBD based with a hybrid working environment. The candidate will have a considerable IT technical background with expertise in several of the following focus areas: data centres, infrastructure storage deployment, network services deployment and management, data storage and transmission efficiency analysis, data access interface design, or database design.

The top tech skills required to stand out from other candidates include:

• Experience with working tape drives/libraries and NOT backup tape libraries


• Experience working with Hierarchy Storage Management (HSM) with tapes


• Experience with Ansible

Key Responsibilities

• Infrastructure Management: Deploy and manage data centres, storage, and network services


• Performance Analysis: Optimise data storage, transmission efficiency, and access interfaces


• System Support: Maintain a secure, large-scale, high-performance, and multi-protocol robust service


• Administration of storage, compute and cloud infrastructure


• Perform day-to-day maintenance and administration of multi-petabyte storage systems consisting of disk and tape


• Participate in capacity planning and usage trending


• Implement and manage storage technologies such as auto-tiering, data replication


• Maintain system and storage best practices and storage life-cycle management
  
• Administer system and storage virtualisation layers and integration with co-located HPC, cloud and container infrastructure


• Perform day-to-day troubleshooting of system and storage related issues, performance issues


• Ensure robustness, security and scalability of systems and storage, and related infrastructure

Key Requirements

• Tertiary qualifications or relevant experience in Computer Science (or other relevant IT field)


• Strong experience in system and storage technologies, from the storage medium through to systems interconnection up to the application layer


• Experience with monitoring and observability tools, notably Zabbix, Prometheus and Grafana


• Ability to administer and confi gure a range of operating systems, with a focus on Linux, and services including Networking; Web Servers, Relational Databases;


• Strong experience with Linux HA and cluster concepts;


• In-depth knowledge and demonstrated work experience in enterprise grade, multi-tiered (disk and tape) and multi vendor storage systems