Senior Platform Storage Engineer

A leading global technology-driven firm is seeking a highly skilled Senior Platform Storage Engineer to join its expanding infrastructure team. This is an exciting opportunity to work on large-scale, enterprise-grade storage platforms supporting mission-critical environments with demanding performance and reliability requirements. The successful candidate will play a key role in designing, building, and operating distributed storage infrastructure that supports rapidly growing compute and data environments across global operations.

This role is ideal for someone passionate about large-scale storage systems, automation, performance optimisation, and modern infrastructure engineering.

• Design, deploy, and manage scalable distributed storage systems through automation, standardisation, testing, and monitoring
• Architect and maintain high-performance storage platforms including NFS, GPFS, WEKA, object storage, and related technologies
• Perform storage capacity planning, forecasting, and lifecycle management to optimise utilisation and efficiency
• Analyse storage performance metrics, identify bottlenecks, and implement tuning and optimisation strategies
• Develop and maintain automation tooling for provisioning, configuration management, and operational monitoring
• Partner closely with compute, networking, and application teams to ensure storage solutions meet performance and reliability requirements
• Improve observability, alerting, and incident response capabilities across storage environments
• Evaluate and integrate emerging storage technologies, including cloud-based storage services
• Ensure strong standards around data integrity, availability, backup, replication, and disaster recovery readiness
• Maintain clear documentation for storage architecture, operational procedures, and support runbooks

• 5+ years of experience within infrastructure engineering, with strong expertise in Linux and enterprise storage administration
• Deep understanding of distributed storage systems and storage protocols such as NFS, GPFS, WEKA, Lustre, Ceph, or similar technologies
• Experience with storage benchmarking, performance analysis, tuning, and optimisation
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure automation and configuration management tools such as Ansible or Chef
• Strong programming or scripting skills in Python, Go, Rust, or similar languages
• Familiarity with modern engineering practices including CI/CD, version control, and agile delivery methodologies
• Experience with observability and monitoring platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Elasticsearch, Kibana, or similar
• Exposure to cloud storage platforms and services across AWS and/or GCP environments
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related discipline
• Strong communication and collaboration skills
• Experience with object storage platforms such as MinIO, Cloudian, or S3-compatible technologies
• Knowledge of storage hardware technologies including NVMe, SSDs, disk arrays, HBAs, JBODs, and storage networking

Our client offers interesting projects, career progression opportunities and attractive remuneration structure.