Senior System Administrator II (Ceph Engineer)

EngineersOfAI; Chicago, Northern (IL, KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Adyen storage team in Chicago is seeking a seasoned Storage Engineer to design, implement, and maintain scalable data storage systems across on-premises and cloud environments.

You will manage SAN/NAS/DAS, monitor performance, plan capacity, implement backup and disaster recovery, automate provisioning, and collaborate with Platform Engineering to drive reliability and efficiency.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of Linux systems administration with a focus on storage (Ceph).
• Experience with enterprise storage systems (Purestorage, NetApp, EMC, Dell, IBM, Hitachi).
• Strong understanding of RAID, LVM, NFS, iSCSI, multipathing, and file systems (ext4, XFS, ZFS).
• Hands-on experience with enterprise storage systems and clustering technologies.
• Proficiency in shell scripting.

Responsibilities

• Design and deploy storage infrastructure (SAN, NAS, DAS, Object Storage).
• Monitor and maintain storage systems for performance, availability, reliability.
• Perform capacity planning and forecasting for future storage needs.
• Develop and implement 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

Ceph

Enterprise storage systems

RAID/LVM/NFS/iSCSI

Shell scripting

Python

Ansible

VMware

AWS S3

Monitoring tools

Tools

VMware

KVM

Job description

This is Adyen

Adyen provides payments, data, and financial products in a single solution for customers like Meta, Uber, H&M, and Microsoft - making us the financial technology platform of choice. At Adyen, everything we do is engineered for ambition.

For our teams, we create an environment with opportunities for our people to succeed, backed by the culture and support to ensure they are enabled to truly own their careers. We are motivated individuals who tackle unique technical challenges at scale and solve them as a team. Together, we deliver innovative and ethical solutions that help businesses achieve their ambitions faster.

Why you should join the Adyen Storage Team

This team is part of our Platform Engineering team in Chicago or San Francisco. The purpose of Platform Engineering is to enable Adyen engineers to autonomously build and support secure, scalable and reliable applications with high speed and quality through a common technology ecosystem. As a storage engineer of our 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. This includes strategic design for scalability, hands-on implementation and integration, continuous performance monitoring, capacity planning, security, and troubleshooting. It also requires proactive maintenance with updates, backups, disaster recovery, and planning for future growth by evaluating and recommending new technologies for data availability, reliability, and efficiency.

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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.)

Our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion commitments

Our unique approach is a product of our diverse perspectives. This diversity of backgrounds and cultures is essential in helping us maintain our momentum. Our business and technical challenges are unique, and we need as many different voices as possible to join us in solving them - voices like yours. No matter who you are or where you’re from, we welcome you to be your true self at Adyen.

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