Senior Storage Engineer: Scale, Automate & Secure Data

United States Digital Space LLC; Chicago, San Francisco (IL, CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 243,000; Full time

Job summary

The company storage team in Chicago is seeking a Storage Engineer to design, deploy, and manage data storage infrastructure. You will own end-to-end storage solutions, including SAN/NAS/DAS/object storage, backups, DR, and performance tuning.

Required 3–5+ years in Linux storage, with Ceph experience and hands-on work with Enterprise storage systems. Proficiency in scripting and virtualization, plus familiarity with AWS storage and monitoring tools, is essential for success.

Qualifications

• 3–5+ 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).
• 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.
• Familiarity with cloud storage solutions like AWS S3 and EBS.
• Experience with monitoring tools (Nagios, Prometheus, Zabbix).

Responsibilities

• Design and deploy storage infrastructure (SAN, NAS, DAS, 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.

Skills

Linux systems administration

Storage engineering

Ceph

Scripting (Python, Bash)

VMware / KVM

Tools

Purestorage

NetApp

EMC

Dell EMC

Hitachi

NFS

iSCSI

LVM

RAID

Puppet

Ansible

Nagios

Prometheus

Zabbix

AWS S3

AWS EBS

Job description

The company storage team in Chicago is seeking a Storage Engineer to design, deploy, and manage data storage infrastructure. You will own end-to-end storage solutions, including SAN/NAS/DAS/object storage, backups, DR, and performance tuning.

Required 3–5+ years in Linux storage, with Ceph experience and hands-on work with Enterprise storage systems. Proficiency in scripting and virtualization, plus familiarity with AWS storage and monitoring tools, is essential for success.