Storage Infrastructure Engineer - Hedge Fund - £120K+

Oliver Bernard; Greater London; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Hedge Fund in London is seeking a Storage Infrastructure Engineer to design, build, and maintain enterprise-scale storage services that scale with growth. You’ll work on on-prem, NAS and cloud storage platforms, optimizing performance and automating tool development.

You should have deep Linux experience, expertise with NFS/GPFS/Lustre/Ceph and strong knowledge of observability stacks like Prometheus and Grafana. Salary is £120K+ with on-site in London.

Qualifications

• Experience in an infrastructure role with a strong focus on Storage and Linux.
• Strong expertise with distributed storage systems and storage protocols (NFS, GPFS, WEKA, Lustre, Ceph etc).
• Experience with storage performance analysis and optimisation.
• Experience with tools such as Chef or Ansible
• Good Python and automation skills (Go or Rust also useful)
• Experience with modern software development best practices - Version control, agile development, CI/CD etc
• Knowledge of observability (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana etc)

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain enterprise-grade storage services that can scale with the company’s growth.
• Day-to-day you’ll work across storage infrastructure design and deployment, performance tuning, monitoring improvements and automation and tool development.

Skills

Linux

Storage

Automation

Python

CI/CD

Go

Rust

Version control

Agile

Observability

Tools

Chef

Ansible

Job description

Storage Infrastructure Engineer - Hedge Fund - £120K+

Our client is one of the world's leading hedge funds and are looking to hire an experienced Storage Engineer in their London office.

You’ll work to design, build, and maintain enterprise-grade storage services that can continuously scale to support the company’s growth.

You’ll need in-depth knowledge of distributed storage systems, storage architectures, and storage protocols, including performance optimization, capacity planning, and data lifecycle management.

Ideally, you’ll have experience with on-premises storage infrastructure, network-attached storage and cloud-based storage platforms.

Day-to-day you’ll work across storage infrastructure design and deployment, performance tuning, monitoring improvements and automation and tool development.

Requirements

• Excellent experience in an infrastructure role with a strong focus on Storage and Linux
• Strong expertise with distributed storage systems and storage protocols (NFS, GPFS, WEKA, Lustre, Ceph etc)
• Experience with storage performance analysis and optimisation
Experience of tools such as Chef or Ansible
• Good Python and automation skills (Go or Rust also useful)
• Experience with modern software development best practices - Version control, agile development, CI/CD etc
• Knowledge of observability (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana etc)