Expert Storage Engineer – WEKA / VAST / Ceph

Ambition; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Ambition in London is seeking an Expert Storage Engineer to lead architecture, design and delivery of enterprise storage platforms. This senior, hands-on role focuses on high-performance, scalable storage across distributed systems.

You'll work across NFS/GPFS/Lustre, automation, performance tuning and observability, collaborating with Linux and cloud teams to scale storage at pace.

Qualifications

• Strong enterprise storage engineering experience with Linux.
• Experience with WEKA, Ceph, NFS, GPFS, Lustre, VAST Data.
• Scripting in Python, Go or Rust; Ansible or Chef for automation.
• CI/CD and SDLC understanding; observability with Prometheus/Grafana/Datadog/ELK.
• Cloud storage exposure in AWS and/or GCP.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy and support highly complex, distributed storage platforms.
• Work on the architecture and engineering of high-throughput storage solutions including NFS, GPFS and WEKA.
• Own capacity planning, forecasting and storage performance optimisation.
• Automate storage platforms and services to improve scalability and operational efficiency.
• Tune storage environments for optimum performance and reliability.
• Improve observability and monitoring across a varied storage estate.
• Work closely with Linux, platform, cloud and infrastructure engineering teams.
• Contribute to the ongoing architecture and evolution of large-scale storage services.

Skills

Linux

Python

Go

Rust

CI/CD

Tools

WEKA

Ceph

NFS

GPFS

Lustre

VAST Data

Ansible

Chef

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

ELK

AWS

GCP

S3-compatible object storage

Job description

We are working with a rapidly expanding, highly technology-driven organisation looking to hire an Expert Storage Engineer in London.

This is a senior, hands‑on engineering position working across enterprise storage services, covering architecture, design, build, automation, optimisation and support. You’ll work with highly complex distributed storage platforms in an environment where performance, scalability and reliability are critical.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy and support highly complex, distributed storage platforms.
• Work on the architecture and engineering of high-throughput storage solutions including NFS, GPFS and WEKA.
• Own capacity planning, forecasting and storage performance optimisation.
• Automate storage platforms and services to improve scalability and operational efficiency.
• Tune storage environments for optimum performance and reliability.
• Improve observability and monitoring across a varied storage estate.
• Work closely with Linux, platform, cloud and infrastructure engineering teams.
• Contribute to the ongoing architecture and evolution of large-scale storage services.

Skills & Experience

• Strong enterprise storage engineering experience combined with an excellent understanding of Linux.
• Hands‑on expertise with technologies such as WEKA, Ceph, NFS, GPFS, Lustre, VAST Data, or comparable distributed storage platforms.
• Configuration management and automation experience using Ansible or Chef.
• Programming or scripting experience with Python, Go or Rust.
• Good understanding of CI/CD and the software development lifecycle (SDLC).
• Experience implementing observability for storage infrastructure using technologies such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog or ELK.
• Exposure to cloud-based storage within AWS and/or GCP.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across complex, large-scale infrastructure environments.

Experience in any of the following would be advantageous:

• Cloudian, MinIO or S3‑compatible object storage
• Storage hardware including arrays, JBODs, NVMe, SSDs, HBAs and networked storage
• Data protection and backup technologies
• High Performance Computing (HPC)
• Large‑scale, performance‑sensitive or data‑intensive environments

The Opportunity

This is a particularly strong opportunity for a storage engineer who wants to work at a genuinely technical level rather than in a traditional storage administration position.

You’ll have the opportunity to work across architecture, engineering, automation, performance and observability, supporting sophisticated storage platforms operating at significant scale.