Platform Specialist

SQUAREPOINT SERVICES SINGAPORE PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Squarepoint is seeking a Platform Storage Specialist to join our global team in Singapore. You will design, deploy, and maintain enterprise-grade storage services, spanning on‑premises, NAS, object storage, and cloud platforms, while ensuring performance, reliability, and scalability.

The role emphasizes automation, capacity planning, and observability, with collaboration across compute, network, and application teams.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in a technology infra role focused on storage administration.
• Deep expertise with NFS, GPFS, WEKA, Lustre, Ceph or similar storage protocols.
• Experience with storage performance analysis and optimization.
• Proficient in Python or other high‑level languages for automation.
• Experience with CI/CD and version control practices.
• Observability experience (Elasticsearch, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana).
• Experience with cloud storage across AWS and GCP.
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related field.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and manage distributed storage systems at scale.
• Architect and maintain high‑performance storage solutions (NFS, GPFS, WEKA, object storage).
• Perform capacity planning, forecasting, and lifecycle management.
• Monitor performance metrics, identify bottlenecks, and optimize.
• Develop automation tooling for storage provisioning and health monitoring.
• Collaborate with compute, networking, and apps teams for performance and reliability.
• Improve storage observability, alerting, and incident response processes.
• Evaluate new storage technologies including cloud storage services (AWS, GCP).
• Ensure data integrity, availability, and disaster recovery readiness.
• Document storage architecture, runbooks, and procedures.

Skills

Storage administration

Linux administration

Distributed storage systems

Python automation

CI/CD

Observability tooling

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Engineering

Tools

Chef

Ansible

Job description

Position Overview:

Squarepoint is looking for a Platform Storage Specialist to join our growing global team. The candidate will work alongside our team to design, build, and maintain enterprise-grade storage services that are continuously scaling to support the growth of the company. This role requires in-depth knowledge of distributed storage systems, storage architectures, and storage protocols, including performance optimization, capacity planning, and data lifecycle management. The candidate will ideally have experience with on-premises storage infrastructure, network‑attached storage, parallel file systems, object storage, and cloud‑based storage platforms. Your day‑to‑day could consist of storage infrastructure design and deployment, performance tuning and troubleshooting, monitoring and alerting improvements, capacity management, automation and tool development, and much more.

Main Duties & Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and manage distributed storage systems efficiently at scale through standardization, automation, testing, and in‑depth monitoring
• Architect and maintain high‑performance storage solutions including NFS, GPFS, WEKA, and object storage platforms
• Perform storage capacity planning, forecasting, and lifecycle management to ensure optimal utilization and cost efficiency
• Monitor storage performance metrics, identify bottlenecks, and implement tuning and optimization strategies
• Develop and maintain automation tooling for storage provisioning, configuration, and health monitoring
• Collaborate with compute, networking, and application teams to ensure storage solutions meet performance and reliability requirements
• Implement and improve storage‑related observability, alerting, and incident response processes
• Evaluate and integrate new storage technologies, including cloud‑based storage services (AWS S3, EBS, EFS, GCP Cloud Storage, Filestore, etc.)
• Ensure data integrity, availability, and disaster recovery readiness across storage platforms
• Document storage architecture, runbooks, and operational procedures

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in a technology infrastructure role with a strong focus on storage administration and Linux administration
• Deep expertise with distributed storage systems and storage protocols (NFS, GPFS, WEKA, Lustre, Ceph, or similar)
• Experience with storage performance analysis, benchmarking, and optimization
• Experience working with configuration management driven administration using tools such as Chef or Ansible
• Proficient in Python, or other high‑level language (Go, Rust, etc.) for automation and tooling development
• Experience with modern software development practices: version control, agile development, CI/CD
• Experience with observability in distributed systems (e.g., Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana)
• Experience working with cloud storage services across various cloud providers (AWS and GCP)
• Bachelor's Degree in an Engineering discipline or related area
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with object storage systems (Cloudian, MinIO, S3‑compatible platforms)
• Familiarity with storage hardware (disk arrays, JBODs, NVMe/SSD technologies, HBAs, and storage networking)
• Experience with data protection strategies including backup, replication, and disaster recovery
• Understanding of storage tiering and data lifecycle policies
• Knowledge of high‑performance computing (HPC) storage workloads and patterns
• Eagerness to continuously learn new storage technologies and develop with us
• Ability to work well in a fast‑paced, adaptable, and pressured environment