Senior Storage Engineer

Adyen; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Adyen, a leading payments platform, seeks a Senior Storage Engineer in Amsterdam to design, implement, and maintain data storage infrastructure including SAN and object storage with emphasis on scalability, reliability, and security.

You will partner with Platform Engineering to ensure high availability, perform capacity planning, backups, DR, and automate storage provisioning using scripting and IaC. 5+ years Linux storage experience and Ceph expertise are required.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of Linux storage administration experience with a focus on storage (e.g., Ceph).
• Experience with enterprise storage systems (e.g., Purestorage, NetApp, EMC, Dell, IBM, Hitachi).
• Strong understanding of RAID, LVM, NFS, iSCSI, multipathing, and file systems (ext4, XFS, ZFS).
• Hands-on experience with enterprise storage systems and clustering technologies.
• Proficiency in shell scripting.
• Experience with Python, Puppet or Ansible; familiarity with virtualization (VMware/KVM).
• Familiarity with AWS S3 and EBS cloud storage solutions.
• Experience with monitoring tools (Nagios, Prometheus, Zabbix).

Responsibilities

• Design and deploy storage infrastructure (SAN, 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 upgrades, migrations, and integrations.
• Automate storage provisioning and management using scripting or infrastructure-as-code tools

Skills

Ceph

Linux storage administration

RAID

LVM

NFS

iSCSI

Shell scripting

Python

Puppet

Ansible

VMware

KVM

AWS S3

Prometheus

Nagios

Zabbix

Tools

VMware

KVM

Job description

This is Adyen

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.

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.

Senior Storage Engineer

Why you should join the Adyen Storage Team

This team is part of our Platform Engineering team in Amsterdam. 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 of our Storage team in Amsterdam, 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. This includes 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.

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What You’ll Do:

• Design and deploy storage infrastructure (SAN, 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

Who You Are:

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

This role is based out of our Amsterdam office. We are an office-first company and value in-person collaboration; we do not offer remote-only roles.