Lead Engineer - Storage and Data Protection
Listed on 2026-08-28
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IT/Tech
Systems Engineer, Information Security & Data Protection, Cloud Computing: Infrastructure & Operations, Cybersecurity
Lead Engineer – Storage and Data Protection, Core
42, Abu Dhabi - UAEAbout Us
Core
42, a leader in AI-powered cloud and digital infrastructure, is driving transformative technology solutions globally. Leveraging advanced resources and partnerships, Core
42 empowers clients to harness sovereign AI infrastructure, especially in sectors with stringent regulatory needs. With a mission to redefine digital transformation, we combine sovereign capabilities with scalable, high-performance compute infrastructure, positioning itself at the forefront of AI innovation in the Middle East and beyond.
The Lead Engineer – Storage and Data Protection contributes to the design, leads implementation, and provides Level 3 expert support for large-scale storage infrastructure, ensuring high levels of performance, scalability, reliability and security. The role acts as a key subject matter expert and technical lead for engineers responsible for block, file, object storage, and backup across Cloud and HPC environments.
Your key responsibilities- Co-design, implement and manage PBs-scale block, file, and object storage solutions as core components of Cloud and HPC environments.
- Lead the implementation and lifecycle management of storage and backup services across production and non-production environments.
- Collaborate with architecture and platform engineering teams on technology evaluation, selection, integration, and solution design.
- Support the execution of storage roadmaps, standards, and service improvements across the organization.
- Lead capacity planning activities to ensure storage platforms meet current and future demand.
- Improve storage platform reliability by identifying failure points, strengthening high availability, and reducing operational risk.
- Analyze and implement performance optimization strategies to improve storage efficiency, throughput, latency, and resource utilization.
- Evaluate and integrate advanced storage technologies, including software-defined storage, clustered file systems, and object storage platforms.
- Define and execute disaster recovery and data protection strategies, ensuring data integrity, availability and recoverability.
- Design and enhance storage observability, logging, and monitoring capabilities in collaboration with observability, platforms and operations teams.
- Provide level 3 expert support, including on-call support, root cause analysis, complex troubleshooting, and escalation management with vendor support.
- Lead and mentor storage engineers, ensuring technical quality, execution discipline, and knowledge sharing.
- Collaborate with security teams to ensure storage and backup platforms are secure, hardened, and compliant with cybersecurity requirements.
- Create and maintain documentation, including implementation guides, operational procedures, diagrams, and knowledge base articles.
- Work with process and operations teams to improve support models, operational workflows, and collaboration efficiency.
- Comply with applicable laws, regulations, international standards and related G42 Policies and Procedures.
- Comply with G42 Acceptable Use Policy, attend mandatory information security, privacy, business continuity and HSE trainings.
- Report information security, HSE etc. incidents or suspect incidents through G42 established incident reporting channels.
- Maintain confidentiality of information and classify and handle information as per G42 Policies and Procedures.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science, engineering, software engineering or related technology discipline.
- 7+ years of hands‑on experience designing, implementing, and managing large-scale storage and data protection platforms.
- 2+ years of experience leading a team of 3+ engineers, with accountability for technical quality and timely delivery.
- Strong hands‑on experience with software-defined storage solutions across block, file, and object storage services.
- Deep expertise with storage platforms from vendors such as HPE, Dell, Net App, Hitachi, IBM, Pure Storage, or VAST DATA.
- Strong knowledge of storage protocols and interfaces such as iSCSI, S3, NFS, NVMe/TCP, and related…
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