Storage Engineer

Open Systems Technologies; Jersey City (NJ); Remote; USD 200,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

A financial firm is seeking a Storage Engineer to design and maintain global storage systems, ensuring alignment with business goals. This remote role requires 10+ years of experience in storage engineering and extensive knowledge of storage technologies and protocols. The ideal candidate will possess strong troubleshooting skills and a collaborative mindset.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in enterprise storage engineering and operations.
• Experience in high-performance environment including low latency database.
• Knowledge of cloud storage services and hybrid architectures.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, automate and maintain global storage solutions.
• Monitor, analyze, and troubleshoot storage performance and capacity.
• Conduct regular audits of storage environments for optimization.

Skills

Technical knowledge in storage systems

Deep understanding of storage protocols

Strong automation skills

Excellent troubleshooting

Strong communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Tools

Dell EMC

NetApp

Pure Storage

Hitachi

Rubrik

Veeam

Job description

A financial firm is looking for a Storage Engineer to join their team. This role is remote.

Compensation: $200-250K

Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, automate and maintain global storage solutions, including SAN, NAS and local object storage and backup systems.
• Monitor, analyze, and troubleshoot:
  • Storage System storage performance and capacity issues.
  • Fabric Systems performance and capacity.
  • Configure and manage storage replication, snapshots, and cloning technologies.
• Automate storage provisioning and DR failover with reporting and diagnostic upkeep.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, network, database, and application teams to understand storage needs and ensure alignment with business goals.
• Automate data protection and compliance checks.
• Conduct regular audits of storage environments to optimize for performance, scalability and cost.
• Develop and maintain documentation related to storage architectures, processes, and procedures.
• Participate in on-call rotation and provide tier-3 support for critical storage-related incidents.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, related field, or equivalent work experience.
• 10+ years of experience in enterprise storage engineering and operations.
• Deep technical knowledge in storage systems (e.g., Dell EMC, NetApp, Pure Storage, Hitachi).
• Deep understanding of protocols like iSCSI, NFS, SMB/CIFS, Fibre Channel, and object storage (S3, Swift).
• Strong Database Storage Engineering knowledge.
• Strong understanding of application performance and recovery on large/small storage systems.
• Strong background in automation is a must.
• Strong understanding of performance metrics (e.g. IOPS, Latency, throughput).
• Experience in a high-performance environment including low latency database.
• Experience with backup/recovery solutions (e.g., Rubrik and Veeam).
• Top level debugging skills, on Windows and Linux systems.
• Knowledge of cloud storage services (Netapp StorageGrid AWS S3/EBS, Azure Blob Storage, Google Cloud Storage) and hybrid architectures.
• Knowledge in security and data encryption methods and practices.
• Excellent troubleshooting skills and a methodical approach to problem-solving.
• Strong communication skills and ability to work collaboratively in a team environment.