Senior System Administrator II [Ceph Engineer]

Adyen; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Adyen Bengaluru seeks a Storage Engineer to design, implement, and maintain scalable data storage infrastructure across SAN, NAS, DAS, and object storage.

You will manage capacity planning, backups, disaster recovery, and performance, collaborating with Platform Engineering to automate provisioning and ensure reliability.

Responsibilities include troubleshooting, documenting configurations, and driving storage upgrades with cross‑team collaboration.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of Linux storage administration experience, Ceph preferred.
• Experience with enterprise storage systems (Purestorage, NetApp, EMC, Dell, IBM, Hitachi).
• Strong knowledge of RAID, LVM, NFS, iSCSI, multipathing, and common filesystems.
• Hands-on with clustering and virtualization technologies.
• Proficient in shell scripting; Python, Puppet or Ansible experience.
• Familiar with cloud storage (AWS S3/EBS) and monitoring tools (Nagios/Prometheus/Zabbix).

Responsibilities

• Design and deploy storage infrastructure (SAN/NAS/DAS/Object Storage) per org needs.
• Monitor and maintain storage systems for performance and availability.
• Plan capacity and forecast future storage requirements.
• Develop backup, replication, and disaster recovery strategies.
• Troubleshoot storage issues and maintain documentation.
• Collaborate with Platform Engineering on upgrades, migrations, integrations.
• Automate storage provisioning using scripting/IaC tools.

Skills

Ceph

Enterprise storage

RAID/LVM/NFS/iSCSI

Shell scripting

Python/Puppet/Ansible

VMware/KVM

Cloud storage AWS S3/EBS

Monitoring tools (Nagios/Prometheus/Zi

Tools

Puppet

Ansible

VMware

KVM

Nagios

Prometheus

Zabbix

AWS S3

AWS EBS

Ceph

Job description

Adyen provides payments, data, and financial products in a single solution for customers like Meta, Uber, H&M, and Microsoft – making us the financial technology platform of choice. At Adyen, everything we do is engineered for ambition.

For our teams, we create an environment with opportunities for our people to succeed, backed by the culture and support to ensure they are enabled to truly own their careers. We are motivated individuals who tackle unique technical challenges at scale and solve them as a team. Together, we deliver innovative and ethical solutions that help businesses achieve their ambitions faster.

This team is part of our Platform Engineering team in India. The purpose of Platform Engineering is to enable Adyen engineers to autonomously build and support secure, scalable and reliable applications with high speed and quality through a common technology ecosystem. As a storage engineer in Bengaluru, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, managing, and maintaining data storage systems and solutions. This role involves the end‑to‑end management of our organization’s data storage infrastructure, including strategic design for scalability, hands‑on implementation and integration, continuous performance monitoring, capacity planning, security, and troubleshooting. It also requires proactive maintenance with updates, backups, disaster recovery, and planning for future growth by evaluating and recommending new technologies for data availability, reliability, and efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Design and deploy storage infrastructure (SAN, NAS, DAS, Object Storage) in accordance with organizational needs.
• Monitor and maintain storage systems to guarantee optimal performance, availability, and reliability.
• Perform capacity planning and forecasting for future storage needs.
• Develop and implement strategies for backup, replication, and disaster recovery.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to storage systems.
• Maintain documentation of configurations, procedures, and standards.
• Collaborate with other Platform Engineering teams on system upgrades, migrations, and integrations.
• Automate storage provisioning and management using scripting or infrastructure‑as‑code tools.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Linux systems administration with a focus on storage (e.g., Ceph) {MANDATE}
• Proven experience with enterprise storage systems (e.g., Purestorage, NetApp, EMC, Dell, IBM, Hitachi). {MANDATE}
• You have a strong understanding of RAID, LVM, NFS, iSCSI, multipathing, and file systems (ext4, XFS, ZFS, etc.){MANDATE}
• Hands‑on experience with enterprise storage systems and clustering technologies.
• Proficiency in shell scripting.
• Python, Puppet or Ansible knowledge and experience with virtualization technologies such as VMware or KVM.
• Familiarity with cloud storage solutions like AWS S3 and EBS.
• Experience with monitoring tools (Nagios, Prometheus, Zabbix, etc.).