Senior Cloud & Storage Engineer – Remote

Manila Recruitment; Manila; Remote; PHP 500,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Manila Recruitment is seeking a Cloud and Storage Specialist to manage and optimize cloud infrastructure and storage environments. Responsibilities include daily health checks, incident resolution, capacity reviews, and collaboration with internal teams and clients to deliver reliable technical solutions.

The role covers SAN/NAS, iSCSI, virtualization (VMware vSphere, Hyper-V, Proxmox, Xen), MCS maintenance, firewall posture checks, and after-hours support.

Qualifications

• Experience with enterprise storage and troubleshooting in production environments.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary technical owner for the organization’s enterprise storage environment.
• Perform daily health checks, maintenance, capacity reviews, troubleshooting, and incident resolution across storage platforms and related infrastructure.
• Support storage technologies and services including SAN / NAS environments, iSCSI connectivity, redundancy, replication, and performance management.
• Monitor and respond to infrastructure alerts across servers, hypervisors, storage, and network components.
• Diagnose and address issues involving offline servers, host and cluster issues, hypervisor faults, storage degradation or performance concerns, firewall or network events.
• Administer and maintain a diverse virtualization environment, including VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, Proxmox, Xen.
• Perform routine Citrix MCS updates and maintenance activities.
• Validate the health and security posture of firewalls and other critical network infrastructure through daily checks.
• Serve as the first technical escalation point for after-hours operational incidents.
• Handle occasional after-hours client support interactions with clear communication, professionalism, and urgency.
• Complete recurring operational checklists accurately and consistently to support infrastructure reliability and service excellence.
• Escalate critical issues appropriately while maintaining ownership through resolution.
• Contribute to a culture of operational discipline, proactive support, and technical accountability.
• Strong hands-on experience with Enterprise Storage, including administration, support, performance management, capacity management, and troubleshooting in production environments.
• Strong working knowledge of core storage technologies and concepts, including SAN, NAS, iSCSI, RAID, Replication, Capacity Management, Storage Performance, and Troubleshooting.
• Experience supporting enterprise storage solutions from vendors such as HPE, Dell, or similar platforms.
• Hands-on experience with at least one of the following virtualization platforms: Hyper-V or Proxmox, including server/infrastructure administration and troubleshooting.
• Working knowledge of networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP, VLANs, Routing, Firewall concepts, and General network troubleshooting.
• Some hands-on experience with a firewall platform, such as WatchGuard or similar, sufficient to perform basic troubleshooting and support.
• Experience with infrastructure monitoring, alert handling, and ticket management, including Zabbix or a similar monitoring platform.
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills, with the ability to identify root causes and take corrective action.
• Proven ability to work independently in a remote overnight environment with minimal supervision.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced infrastructure operations environment.
• Strong written and verbal English communication skills.
• Ability to handle basic after-hours client interactions and technical support.
• Reliable, dedicated high-speed internet connection suitable for remote operational support.

Skills

Enterprise Storage

SAN/NAS

iSCSI

RAID

Replication

Storage Performance

VMware vSphere

Hyper-V

Proxmox

Xen

MCS

Networking fundamentals

Firewall concepts

Zabbix

WatchGuard

Education

Degree in Information Technology or Computer Science

Tools

VMware vSphere

Hyper-V

Proxmox

Xen

Citrix Machine Creation Services (MCS)

Zabbix

WatchGuard

Azure

AWS

DataCore

Job description

Manila Recruitment is seeking a Cloud and Storage Specialist to manage and optimize cloud infrastructure and storage environments. Responsibilities include daily health checks, incident resolution, capacity reviews, and collaboration with internal teams and clients to deliver reliable technical solutions.

The role covers SAN/NAS, iSCSI, virtualization (VMware vSphere, Hyper-V, Proxmox, Xen), MCS maintenance, firewall posture checks, and after-hours support.