Storage and Datacenter Team Manager

The Voleon Group; Berkeley, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

Life and AD&D insurance

20 days paid time off

9 sick days

401(k) plan with company match

Catered lunches and modern office

Job summary

The Voleon Group is seeking a hands-on Storage and Datacenter Team Manager to guide and grow our Storage Engineering group. You will provide architectural oversight, mentorship, and direct implementation support across production and research facilities.

You will lead by example—driving automation, managing on-call rotations, and collaborating with networking, virtualization, and application teams to deliver scalable, PB-scale storage solutions using Ceph and related technologies.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of Linux systems administration with storage focus.
• 2+ years of team leadership, technical project management, or mentoring experience.
• Knowledge of distributed storage systems such as Ceph and storage technologies including RAID, SAN, and NAS.
• Experience streamlining data lifecycle processes including archiving, backup, and retention of PB-scale data.
• Hands-on experience with co-located data center infrastructure.
• Strong scripting/development experience in Bash and/or Python.
• Experience with Ansible and CI/CD practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead a storage, database, and systems administration team with mentorship and career development responsibilities.
• Coordinate datacenter operations across production and research facilities; manage site work and vendor visits.
• Align team priorities with goals and ensure timely project delivery.
• Participate in hiring to grow storage engineering capabilities.
• Manage on-call schedules and incident response processes.
• Architect, implement, and maintain highly available storage systems; drive automation strategies.

Skills

Leadership

Mentorship

Strategic planning

Communication

Tools

Ceph

Ansible

Prometheus

Grafana

KVM

ESXi

Docker

Podman

Nagios/CheckMK

Git

SAN

NAS

Job description

The listed base salary range for this position is based upon the location(s) of this posting. Individual salaries are determined through a variety of factors, including, but not limited to, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and geography. Base salary does not include other forms of total compensation such as bonus compensation and other benefits.

Our benefits package includes medical, dental, and vision coverage, life and AD&D insurance, 20 days of paid time off, 9 sick days, and a 401(k) plan with a company match.

Voleon is a technology company that applies state-of-the-art AI and machine learning techniques to real-world problems in finance. For nearly two decades, we have led our industry and worked at the frontier of applying AI/ML to investment management. We have become a multibillion-dollar asset manager, and we have ambitious goals for the future.

Your colleagues will include internationally recognized experts in artificial intelligence and machine learning research as well as highly experienced finance and technology professionals. In addition to our enriching and collegial working environment, we offer highly competitive compensation and benefits packages, technology talks by our experts, a beautiful modern office, daily catered lunches, and more.

We are seeking a hands-on and strategic Storage and Datacenter Team Manager to guide and grow our critical Storage Engineering team. This individual will be both a technical expert and a team leader, providing architectural oversight, mentorship, and direct implementation support.

The ideal candidate will bring a deep understanding of Linux-based storage systems, excellent problem-solving skills, and a passion for building reliable, scalable infrastructure. You should have proven experience managing Ceph or similar distributed storage systems, as well as handling large-scale data lifecycle processes including archiving and backup.

You will be expected to lead by example—driving automation efforts, and contributing to high-level planning while managing team priorities and operations.

Occasional participation in on-call rotation is expected.

Responsibilities

Leadership & Team Management

• Lead a small team of storage, database, and systems administrators with duties including mentorship, performance management, and career development
• Coordinate datacenter operations across production and research facilities, including scheduling site work and managing vendor/contractor visits
• Align team priorities with organizational goals and ensure timely delivery of projects
• Participate in hiring efforts to grow and evolve the storage engineering team
• Coordinate on-call schedules and ensure effective incident response processes are in place

Technical & Operational Oversight

• Architect, implement, and maintain highly available and performant storage systems
• Define and drive automation strategies for storage deployment and monitoring
• Oversee storage lifecycle management including capacity planning, performance tuning, and data protection strategies such as archiving and backups for large-scale datasets
• Provide architectural guidance and hands-on support for Ceph at PB scale
• Oversee physical datacenter infrastructure including rack layout planning, power distribution, cooling systems, and capacity forecasting for space, power, and cooling
• Manage equipment installation and decommissioning
• Collaborate closely with networking, virtualization, research, and application teams to support diverse compute and storage needs
• Participate in and improve CI/CD and configuration management processes with tools like Ansible and Git
• Support database operations through database tuning, storage optimization, and collaboration with developers
• Develop and maintain runbooks for remote-hands work and coordinate with contractors and facility personnel to perform onsite operations
• Serve as an escalation point for advanced troubleshooting of distributed filesystems, databases, and high-performance storage infrastructure
• Hands-on administration of Linux servers, network-attached storage, virtualization platforms, and cluster frameworks
• Installation, cabling, and troubleshooting of physical server, storage, and network hardware in rack environments
• Diagnose and resolve hardware-level issues impacting production systems
• Support and enhance observability using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and others

Requirements

• 5+ years of Linux Systems Administration experience with significant recent focus on storage systems
• 2+ years of team leadership, technical project management, or mentoring experience
• Knowledge of distributed storage systems such as Ceph and storage technologies including RAID, SAN, and NAS
• Experience streamlining data lifecycle processes, including archiving, backup, and retention of PB-scale data
• Hands-on experience with co-located data center infrastructure
• Ability to travel to remote datacenter sites when needed
• Strong scripting/development experience in Bash and/or Python
• Experience with configuration management tools (Ansible) and infrastructure automation
• Familiarity with monitoring and alerting systems (Nagios/CheckMK, Prometheus, Grafana)
• Understanding of virtualization (KVM, ESXi) and containerization (Docker, Podman)
• Knowledge of LDAP/IPA/AD and centralized identity management

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Kubernetes container orchestration
• Experience in a high-throughput research or trading environment
• Exposure to RHEL/CentOS/Rocky Linux in enterprise settings
• Experience with DCIM tools for tracking assets, power, and space
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps principles
• Experience managing colocation vendor relationships and SLAs

Equal Opportunity Employer

The Voleon Group is an Equal Opportunity employer. Applicants are considered without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, age, sex, gender, marital status, sexual orientation and identity, genetic information, veteran status, citizenship, or any other factors prohibited by local, state, or federal law.