Storage Engineer

Luxoft; Región Centro; Presencial; MXN 600.000 - 900.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Luxoft is seeking a hands-on Storage Systems Engineer to support large-scale Linux-based storage platforms for a US hedge fund. You will ensure production storage reliability, perform migrations, and automate repetitive tasks across global environments.

The role emphasizes troubleshooting, capacity planning, backups, DR testing, and collaboration with data center teams and vendors. Strong Python/Bash scripting and experience with GPFS/IBM Storage Scale are highly relevant.

Formación

• 3+ years of experience in storage engineering, storage operations, or Linux infrastructure with significant storage responsibility.
• Knowledge of file, block, and object storage technologies.
• Solid Linux administration and production support skills.
• Understanding of storage client behavior (NFS mounts, automount, multipath) and tuning.
• Networking basics related to storage: DNS, throughput, latency.
• Experience troubleshooting live issues using logs and metrics; strong scripting/automation skills (Python, Bash, Ansible, Terraform).
• Strong communication, teamwork, and ability to work under pressure; proactive with risk and change control.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes storage integration (CSI drivers) is a plus.

Responsabilidades

• Maintain reliability, performance, and availability of storage and filesystem services.
• Operate GPFS/IBM Storage Scale, NFS, Pure, VAST, NetApp, NAS, block and object storage.
• Troubleshoot storage, filesystem, multipath, and client issues in production for latency and capacity events.
• Monitor capacity, performance, and growth; respond to incidents and degradations.
• Manage quotas, snapshots, replication, tiering, and data lifecycle policies.
• Perform production changes, firmware and software upgrades, migrations with disciplined change control.
• Support backup, recovery, and disaster recovery processes with periodic restore testing.
• Develop automation scripts/tools using Python, Bash, or similar; automate repetitive tasks.
• Collaborate with data center, hardware vendors, and internal stakeholders to resolve issues quickly.
• Improve monitoring, alerting, runbooks, and operational processes; participate in on-call rotations.

Conocimientos

Storage engineering

Linux infrastructure

Linux systems administration

Scripting

Networking fundamentals

Incident response

Herramientas

Ansible

Terraform

Kubernetes CSI

GPFS / IBM Storage Scale

NFS

NetApp

Descripción del empleo

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 global environments.

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

• 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 tuning.
• 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.

Nice-to-Have Skills Description

• Deep experience with GPFS / IBM Storage Scale, ESS, VAST, Pure, NetApp, or similar platforms.
• Experience with SAN/NAS fabrics, RDMA or InfiniBand, and high-throughput data paths.
• Familiarity with backup, replication, snapshots, quotas, and lifecycle policies at scale.
• Exposure to cloud and hybrid storage, CI/CD, and DevOps workflows.
• Experience with Kubernetes storage integration such as CSI drivers and persistent volumes.
• Background supporting research, trading, HPC, or other high-availability environments.