Infrastructure Engineer (Storage, WEKA/CEPH): £200k + Bonus

Hunter Bond; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Hunter Bond is seeking an experienced Platform Storage Specialist to join their infrastructure team in London. You will design and manage large-scale storage platforms, support high-performance compute environments, and enhance operational efficiency through automation.

The role requires strong expertise in distributed storage technologies, Linux, and automation skills. This position is crucial in ensuring data integrity and optimising storage performance in a highly technical environment.

If interested, please apply with your updated CV.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering, focusing on Linux and enterprise storage administration.
• Deep knowledge of distributed storage technologies like GPFS, WEKA, Lustre, or Ceph.
• Strong automation skills with tools such as Python and Ansible.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and manage distributed storage platforms at scale.
• Monitor and optimise storage performance, identifying bottlenecks.
• Collaborate with teams to deliver high availability storage services.

Skills

Infrastructure engineering

Linux administration

Distributed storage technologies

Automation using Python

CI/CD pipelines

Cloud storage services (AWS/GCP)

Storage performance analysis

Troubleshooting

Tools

Ansible

Chef

Prometheus

Grafana

Elasticsearch

Kibana

Datadog

Job description

We are partnering with a leading global investment and technology-driven organisation seeking an experienced Platform Storage Specialist to join its growing infrastructure team in London.

This is an opportunity to work on large-scale, business-critical storage platforms supporting high-performance compute environments across a global estate. The successful candidate will play a key role in designing, building, automating, and optimising enterprise storage services that underpin a rapidly expanding technology environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and manage distributed storage platforms at scale
• Architect and maintain high-performance storage solutions including NFS, GPFS, WEKA, object storage, and related technologies
• Perform capacity planning, forecasting, and lifecycle management across storage environments
• Monitor and optimise storage performance, identifying bottlenecks and implementing improvements
• Develop automation and tooling for storage provisioning, configuration management, and operational efficiency
• Collaborate closely with infrastructure, networking, and engineering teams to deliver highly available storage services
• Enhance monitoring, observability, alerting, and incident response capabilities
• Evaluate and implement emerging storage technologies and cloud storage services
• Ensure data integrity, resilience, and disaster recovery readiness across critical platforms
• Produce and maintain technical documentation, operational procedures, and runbooks

Required Experience

• 5+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering with a strong focus on Linux and enterprise storage administration
• Deep knowledge of distributed storage technologies such as GPFS, WEKA, Lustre, Ceph, NFS, or similar platforms
• Experience with storage performance analysis, benchmarking, and optimisation
• Strong automation skills using Python and infrastructure management tools such as Ansible or Chef
• Experience working with CI/CD pipelines, version control systems, and modern engineering practices
• Knowledge of observability platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, Elasticsearch, Kibana, or Datadog
• Experience supporting cloud storage services across AWS and/or GCP
• Strong troubleshooting, communication, and stakeholder management skills
• Object storage platforms such as MinIO, Cloudian, or S3-compatible technologies
• Storage hardware, NVMe, SSD, disk arrays, storage networking, and HBAs
• Backup, replication, disaster recovery, and data protection strategies
• High-performance computing (HPC) environments
• Storage tiering and data lifecycle management

This position offers the opportunity to work within a highly technical environment where infrastructure performance, scalability, and automation are core to the organisation's success.

If interested, please apply with your updated CV.