Senior System Administrator II (Ceph Engineer)

Adyen; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Adyen Storage Team is seeking a storage engineer to design, implement, and manage data storage systems, ensuring reliability and scalability. You will lead end‑to‑end storage solutions, including backups, disaster recovery, and capacity forecasting.

From day one, you will work with Ceph and enterprise storage stacks (Purestorage, NetApp, EMC, Dell, IBM, Hitachi) while using scripting and IaC tools to automate provisioning.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Linux systems administration with a focus on storage.
• 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 clustering technologies and storage virtualization.
• Proficiency in shell scripting; knowledge of Python, Puppet, or Ansible.
• Familiarity with cloud storage solutions like AWS S3 and EBS.
• Experience with monitoring tools such as Nagios, Prometheus, or Zabbix.

Responsibilities

• Design and deploy storage infrastructure (SAN, NAS, DAS, Object Storage) per organizational needs.
• Monitor and maintain storage systems for optimal performance and availability.
• Perform capacity planning and forecasting for future storage needs.
• Develop and implement backup, replication, and disaster recovery strategies.
• Troubleshoot storage system issues and maintain configuration documentation.
• Collaborate with Platform Engineering teams on upgrades, migrations, and integrations.
• Automate storage provisioning and management using scripting or IaC tools.

Skills

Linux systems administration

Storage concepts

Scripting

Python

VMware/KVM

Monitoring tools

Cloud storage basics

Tools

Ceph

Purestorage

NetApp

EMC

Dell EMC

IBM Storage

Hitachi storage

NFS

iSCSI

RAID

LVM

VMware

AWS S3

EBS

Nagios

Prometheus

Zabbix

Puppet

Ansible

Job description

As a storage engineer on the Adyen Storage Team, 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, including strategic design for scalability, hands‑on implementation and integration, continuous performance monitoring, capacity planning, security, troubleshooting, proactive maintenance with updates, backups, disaster recovery, and planning for future growth by evaluating and recommending new technologies for data availability, reliability, and efficiency.

What You’ll Do:

• 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.

Who You Are:

• 5+ years of experience in Linux systems administration with a focus on storage (e.g., Ceph) {MANDATE})
• Proven experience with enterprisestorage systems (e.g., Purestorage, NetApp, EMC, Dell, IBM, Hitachi). {MANDATE}
• You have a strong understanding of RAID, LVM, NFS, iSCSI, multipathing, and file systems (ext4, XFS, ZFS, etc.){MANDATE}
• 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.)

Adyen is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status or any legally protected status.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

This role is based out of our San Francisco or Chicago office. We are an office‑first company and value in‑person collaboration; we do not offer remote‑only roles.