Storage Platform Engineer — Rust, Kubernetes, Global Data

Pacer Staffing; Greater London; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Client’s Storage Infrastructure team builds and operates the storage foundation behind demanding workloads. This hands-on role focuses on deeply technical systems at scale, owning them in production and delivering robust storage services across cloud and on‑prem environments.

You will work with object storage, cross‑region data movement, lifecycle management, and a federation layer, with Kubernetes and Rust as core technologies.

Qualifications

• Experience building or operating distributed systems in production.
• Familiarity with storage infrastructure, object stores, or data-intensive backends.
• Strong code quality and reliability mindset.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate storage services underpinning research infrastructure.
• Develop object storage systems across cloud and on-prem environments.
• Build systems for cross-region data movement, replication, and recovery.
• Design lifecycle management to keep data durable, available, and cost‑effective.
• Evolve the federation layer that unifies multiple backends behind a simple interface.
• Improve performance, reliability, and operational excellence across the platform.
• Collaborate with researchers and infrastructure teams to support rapidly evolving workloads.

Skills

Builds distributed systems

Production debugging

End-to-end ownership

Tools

Rust

Kubernetes

Terraform

Grafana

Job description

Client’s Storage Infrastructure team builds and operates the storage foundation behind demanding workloads. This hands-on role focuses on deeply technical systems at scale, owning them in production and delivering robust storage services across cloud and on‑prem environments.

You will work with object storage, cross‑region data movement, lifecycle management, and a federation layer, with Kubernetes and Rust as core technologies.