Storage Platform Lead for AI Cloud Infra

Verda; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Cash and equity compensation

Global offices with diverse teams

Impactful, high-scale projects

Job summary

Verda is building a global AI cloud with storage at the core. The Storage team leader will own team growth, priorities, and reliability across Ceph-based storage clusters in multiple data centers, partnering with Infrastructure leadership to scale rapidly.

You will manage engineers, drive ownership, and ensure durable, scalable storage for ML workflows, sharing responsibility for performance and security alongside the org.

Qualifications

• 3+ years managing infrastructure or software engineers, including hiring and performance reviews.
• 5+ years hands-on with distributed storage in production, incl. upgrades and rebalancing.
• Strong understanding of block, file and object storage and how they interact with networks.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Storage team and mentor engineers; own hiring plans and growth.
• Define ownership areas across storage subsystems and performance.
• Maintain on-call rotation, incident postmortems, and change management.
• Oversee security posture with the Security team and ensure compliance.

Skills

People leadership

Hiring strategy

Performance management

Technical credibility

Written communication

Tools

Ceph

Kubernetes

VMs

Job description

Verda is building a global AI cloud with storage at the core. The Storage team leader will own team growth, priorities, and reliability across Ceph-based storage clusters in multiple data centers, partnering with Infrastructure leadership to scale rapidly.

You will manage engineers, drive ownership, and ensure durable, scalable storage for ML workflows, sharing responsibility for performance and security alongside the org.