Senior System Administrator II; Ceph Engineer

As a storage engineer on the Adyen 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, including strategic design for scalability, hands‑on implementation and integration, continuous performance monitoring, capacity planning, security, troubleshooting, proactive maintenance with updates, backups, disaster recovery, and planning for future growth by evaluating and recommending new technologies for data availability, reliability, and efficiency.

• 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.

• 5+ years of experience in Linux systems administration with a focus on storage (e.g.,
  Ceph) {MANDATE})
• Proven experience with enterprise
  storage systems (e.g., Pure storage, Net App, 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.)

Adyen is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status or any legally protected status.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

This role is based out of our San Francisco or Chicago office. We are an office‑first company and value in‑person collaboration; we do not offer remote‑only roles.