Sr SAN/NAS fabrics Storage Systems

Luxoft; Región Centro; On-site; MXN 400,000 - 700,000; Full time

Job summary

Luxoft is seeking a hands-on Storage Systems Engineer to support large-scale Linux-based storage platforms, ensuring production reliability, performance, and timely recovery.

You will collaborate with infrastructure, datacenter, vendor, and business teams to implement safe changes, migrations, and automation, while improving monitoring, runbooks, and incident response processes. The role also includes troubleshooting filesystem issues, managing quotas, and data lifecycle policies.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in storage engineering or Linux storage operations.
• Strong knowledge of file, block, and object storage technologies.
• Solid Linux admin and production support experience.
• Experience with NFS mounts, automount, and multipath setups.
• Networking fundamentals related to storage (DNS, latency, throughput).
• Scripting and automation using Python or Bash.
• Experience with Ansible or Terraform is a plus.
• Excellent teamwork and ability to work under pressure.
• Comfortable working near production and driving improvements.

Responsibilities

• Maintain reliability, performance, and availability of storage services.
• Operate GPFS/IBM Storage Scale, NFS, NetApp, and other storage platforms.
• Troubleshoot storage issues in production including latency and capacity.
• Monitor capacity, performance, and growth trends; respond to incidents.
• Develop scripts to automate repetitive tasks in Python/Bash.
• Collaborate with datacenters, vendors, and stakeholders to resolve issues.
• Participate in incident response and on-call support.
• Improve monitoring, runbooks, and operational processes.

Skills

Storage engineering

Linux infrastructure

NFS & file storage

Block storage

Object storage

Scripting (Python, Bash)

Automation tools (Ansible, Terraform)

On-call support

Communication under pressure

Tools

GPFS / IBM Storage Scale

NFS

NetApp

Pure

VAST

Terraform

Ansible

Salt

Job description

We are looking for a hands-on Storage Systems Engineer for Large US hedge fund to support and improve large-scale Linux-based storage platforms. This role focuses on keeping production storage reliable and performant, troubleshooting filesystem and client-side issues, executing safe changes and migrations, and automating repetitive operational work. You will work closely with infrastructure, datacenter, vendor, and business teams across

Responsibilities:

• Maintain the reliability, performance, and availability of enterprise storage and filesystem services.
• Operate storage platforms such as GPFS / IBM Storage Scale, NFS, Pure, VAST, NetApp, and NAS, block, and object storage systems.
• Troubleshoot storage, filesystem, multipath, and storage client issues in production, including latency, contention, and capacity events.
• Monitor storage capacity, performance, and growth trends; respond to incidents and service degradations.
• Manage quotas, snapshots, replication, tiering, and data lifecycle policies.
• Perform production changes, firmware and software upgrades, data migrations, and remediation with strong operational discipline.
• Support backup, recovery, and disaster recovery processes and periodic restore testing.
• Develop scripts and automation tools using Python, Bash, or similar technologies.
• Work with hardware vendors, datacenter teams, and internal stakeholders to resolve issues quickly.
• Improve monitoring, alerting, runbooks, and operational processes.
• Participate in incident response and occasional on-call support.

Mandatory Skills Description:

• 3+ years of experience in storage engineering, storage operations, or Linux infrastructure with significant storage responsibility.
• Good knowledge of storage technologies across file, block, and object storage.
• Solid Linux systems administration and production support skills.
• Understanding of storage client behavior, including NFS mounts, automount, multipath, and filesystem
• Understanding of networking fundamentals as they relate to storage, including DNS, throughput, and latency troubleshooting.
• Experience troubleshooting live issues using logs, metrics, and command-line tools.
• Scripting and automation experience with tools such as Python, Bash, Ansible, Salt, or Terraform.
• Strong communication, teamwork, and the ability to work effectively under pressure.
• Comfortable working close to production and solving real operational problems.
• Able to balance urgent incident response with long-term platform improvements.
• Organized, proactive, and careful with risk, change control, and communication.