Storage/Systems DevOps Engineer

W Solutions Co; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

W Solutions Co. in Sydney CBD is seeking a Senior System and Storage Engineer to own data centre, storage, and network services within a national cloud infrastructure environment. Hybrid work and strong DevOps background preferred.

The role requires expertise in multi-petabyte storage, Linux, HA clusters, automation with Ansible or Puppet, and experience with monitoring tools such as Zabbix, Prometheus and Grafana.

Qualifications

• Tertiary qualifications in Computer Science or a related IT field.
• Experience with data centres, storage deployment and network services.
• Familiar with Linux, HA/clustering concepts, and databases.
• Proficient with monitoring/observability tools: Zabbix, Prometheus, Grafana.
• Ability to use AI tools responsibly to augment capability.

Responsibilities

• Infrastructure management: deploy and manage data centres, storage and network services.
• Performance analysis: optimise storage transmission efficiency and access interfaces.
• System support: maintain secure, large-scale, multi-protocol services.
• Administer storage, compute and cloud infrastructure.
• Day-to-day maintenance of multi-petabyte storage systems (disk/tape).
• Capacity planning and usage trending; implement data replication and auto-tiering.
• Manage storage technologies and lifecycle; integrate with HPC, cloud and container infra.
• Troubleshoot system and storage issues; ensure robustness and security.

Skills

Ansible

Puppet

Zabbix

Prometheus

Grafana

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

ScoutFS

Weka

VAST

Job description

The Senior System and Storage Engineer is a challenging role within a national cloud infrastructure organisation. We are seeking a flexible, high-performing professional with a strong technical background and a proven track record of delivering high-quality results in a team environment. We are looking for someone with solid infra exp around data centres inc networks and servers along with DevOps experience.

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:

• ScoutFS, Weka OR VAST clustered file systems
• Experience with day to day management, policy configuration and interaction with robotic tape libraries
• Ansible or Puppet experience

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 qualifi cations or relevant experience in Computer Science (or other relevant IT field)
• Ability to utilise AI tools in a responsible and effi cient manner to augment capability
• 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