Senior Storage Systems Engineer

Position:
Senior Storage Systems Engineer

Company:
Luxoft

Location:
Mexico, Guadalajara

Employment type:
Not Specified

Work Arrangement:
Not Specified

Short Summary:
We are looking for a hands-on Storage Systems Engineer for a Large US hedge fund to support and improve large-scale Linux-based storage platforms.

Responsibilities:
- Maintain the reliability, performance, and availability of enterprise storage and filesystem services.
- Operate storage platforms such as GPFS / IBM Storage Scale, NFS, Pure, VAST, NetApp, and NAS, block, and object storage systems.
- Troubleshoot storage, filesystem, multipath, and storage client issues in production.
- Monitor storage capacity, performance, and growth trends; respond to incidents and service degradations.
- Manage quotas, snapshots, replication, tiering, and data lifecycle policies.
- Perform production changes, firmware and software upgrades, data migrations, and remediation.
- Support backup, recovery, and disaster recovery processes and periodic restore testing.
- Develop scripts and automation tools using Python, Bash, or similar technologies.
- Work with hardware vendors, datacenter teams, and internal stakeholders to resolve issues quickly.
- Improve monitoring, alerting, runbooks, and operational processes.
- Participate in incident response and occasional on-call support.

Requirement:
- Must have 3+ years of experience in storage engineering, storage operations, or Linux infrastructure with significant storage responsibility.
- Good knowledge of storage technologies across file, block, and object storage.
- Solid Linux systems administration and production support skills.
- Understanding of storage client behavior, including NFS mounts, automount, multipath, and filesystem tuning.
- Understanding of networking fundamentals as they relate to storage.
- Experience troubleshooting live issues using logs, metrics, and command-line tools.
- Scripting and automation experience with tools such as Python, Bash, Ansible, Salt, or Terraform.
- Strong communication, teamwork, and the ability to work effectively under pressure.
- Organized, proactive, and careful with risk, change control, and communication.

Benefits:
Not Specified