Storage Strategist

Oxford Knight; London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading algorithmic trading firm in London seeks an experienced Storage Strategist to lead their storage solutions development. This critical role involves planning for future storage needs with a focus on AI, ensuring high performance and reliability across the business. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to innovate and implement effective storage strategies in a dynamic work environment.

Benefits

Market-leading salary

Bonuses

Generous benefits package

Flat management structure

Friendly and informal work culture

Qualifications

• 10+ years of multi-PB storage deployments in HPC-like environments.
• Experience developing advanced storage software solutions.
• Deep expertise in HPC and scale-out enterprise storage solutions.

Responsibilities

• Drive direction, planning and execution of the firm’s storage needs.
• Deliver performant, reliable, and future-proof storage solutions.
• Engage with stakeholders to improve the user experience.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Stakeholder Management

Tools

Lustre

GPFS

WEKA

S3

CEPH

Job description

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This is one of the world’s top algorithmic trading firms, looking for an experienced Storage Strategist who likes to be challenged, thrives in a collaborative organisational structure and enjoys a fast-paced hands-on environment. A community of self-starters from multiple tech backgrounds – maths, computer science, statistics, physics, engineering – they have built one of the world’s most sophisticated computing environments for research and development with data at its core.

This role offers the opportunity to be a drive the direction, planning and execution of the firm’s current and future storage needs. A critical position, given the ever-evolving storage needs (with a view to AI), you’ll own the vision and develop a roadmap for future solutions, working across engineering teams to execute it.

You’ll be expected to deliver performant, reliable and future-proof storage solutions across the business, engaging with stakeholders – users within the firm plus external & internal tech providers – and understanding storage workloads to improve user experience.

Requirements

• 10+ years of multi-PB storage deployments in HPC-like environments
• Experience developing advanced storage software solutions and/or leading software development team(s)
• Deep expertise in HPC and scale-out enterprise storage solutions
• Knowledge of distributed file systems used for large-scale cluster computing (Lustre, GPFS, WEKA, S3, CEPH, etc.)
• Strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills
• Track record of working successfully in a collaborative/cross-team environment
• Market-leading salary + bonuses + generous benefits package
• Truly flat management structure, with no red tape
• Friendly, informal yet highly rewarding work culture
• Work with the latest technologies on complex problems with significant impact

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