Senior Storage & Automation Engineer

Socket.dev; Manassas (VA); On-site; USD 101,000 - 188,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Retirement plan with 401k

Job summary

Swift is seeking a Storage Automation Engineer to develop and maintain automation tooling for reliable VMware and storage infrastructure. You will collaborate with security and operations to improve service delivery and operational efficiency.

Ideal candidates have Python, Linux, APIs, and CI/CD experience, plus storage familiarity (Cloudian HyperStore or similar). Hybrid/work from Richmond area is possible in our interstate teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field

Responsibilities

• - Develop and maintain scripts, utilities, and automation workflows that reduce manual effort and improve infrastructure service delivery
• - Build and enhance internal tools, dashboards, reports, and self-service capabilities to support operations, monitoring, provisioning and incident response
• - Work with senior engineers to understand infrastructure platforms and translate operational needs into practical automation and tooling solutions
• - Create integrations using APIs, command-line tools, web services and automation interfaces to improve administration and service delivery
• - Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, source control practices, testing, code reviews and deployment processes for automation and internal tooling
• - Help troubleshoot issues across automation workflows, Linux systems, APIs, networking, DNS, monitoring and related infrastructure services
• - Automate routine operational tasks such as provisioning, health checks, reporting, validation, maintenance and compliance evidence collection
• - Develop reusable code, templates, playbooks, or modules that support repeatable and consistent infrastructure operations
• - Support monitoring and observability improvements by contributing to alerts, metrics, log collection, dashboards and reporting automation
• - Collaborate with infrastructure, application, security and operations teams to understand requirements and deliver automation that improves reliability, security and operational efficiency
• - Apply secure coding and operational practices, including access control, secrets handling, auditability, error handling and documentation
• - Create and maintain technical documentation, developer notes, standard operating procedures and runbooks for automation, tools and platform support
• - Participate in production support and on-call activities, using development and troubleshooting skills to assist with service restoration and incident follow-up
• - Identify manual or repetitive operational activities and propose automation, workflow or tooling improvements
• - Participate in incident response, root cause analysis and continuous improvement initiatives by improving automation, observability and operational tooling

Skills

Python

Bash

PowerShell

Go

JavaScript

Linux

APIs

CI/CD

Git

Monitoring

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field

Tools

Cloudian HyperStore

Terraform

Ansible

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Azure DevOps

Job description

Swift is seeking a Storage Automation Engineer to develop and maintain automation tooling for reliable VMware and storage infrastructure. You will collaborate with security and operations to improve service delivery and operational efficiency.

Ideal candidates have Python, Linux, APIs, and CI/CD experience, plus storage familiarity (Cloudian HyperStore or similar). Hybrid/work from Richmond area is possible in our interstate teams.