Senior Storage Engineer (Hybrid

Automation Engineer

This role is responsible for developing, maintaining, and improving automation, tooling, integrations, and operational capabilities that support reliable infrastructure services. The ideal candidate has a foundation in software development, scripting, Linux, APIs, CI/CD, troubleshooting, and Dev Ops practices, with an interest in building practical tools that improve service delivery, monitoring, reporting, and operational efficiency.

About the team

The Storage squad is part of the Platform Tribe. Our squad delivers and operates VMware and storage infrastructure for Swift critical applications, with a strong focus on automation, tooling, integrations, and operational efficiency.

What to Expect:

In this role you will:

• Develop and maintain scripts, utilities, and automation workflows that reduce manual effort and improve infrastructure service delivery
• Build and enhance internal tools, dashboards, reports, and self-service capabilities to support operations, monitoring, provisioning and incident response
• Work with senior engineers to understand infrastructure platforms and translate operational needs into practical automation and tooling solutions
• Create integrations using APIs, command-line tools, web services and automation interfaces to improve administration and service delivery
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, source control practices, testing, code reviews and deployment processes for automation and internal tooling
• Help troubleshoot issues across automation workflows, Linux systems, APIs, networking, DNS, monitoring and related infrastructure services
• Automate routine operational tasks such as provisioning, health checks, reporting, validation, maintenance and compliance evidence collection
• Develop reusable code, templates, playbooks, or modules that support repeatable and consistent infrastructure operations
• Support monitoring and observability improvements by contributing to alerts, metrics, log collection, dashboards and reporting automation
• Collaborate with infrastructure, application, security and operations teams to understand requirements and deliver automation that improves reliability, security and operational efficiency
• Apply secure coding and operational practices, including access control, secrets handling, auditability, error handling and documentation
• Create and maintain technical documentation, developer notes, standard operating procedures and runbooks for automation, tools and platform support
• Participate in production support and on-call activities, using development and troubleshooting skills to assist with service restoration and incident follow-up
• Identify manual or repetitive operational activities and propose automation, workflow or tooling improvements
• Participate in incident response, root cause analysis and continuous improvement initiatives by improving automation, observability and operational tooling

What will make you successful:

We are seeking professionals with:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field
• Equivalent hands-on development, scripting, automation or infrastructure tooling experience will also be considered
• Foundational software development or scripting experience using Python, Bash, Power Shell, Go, JavaScript or a similar language. preferably 3-6 years of experience
• Basic understanding of Linux, networking, DNS, APIs and infrastructure support concepts
• Experience creating scripts, automation workflows or small tools to solve operational or technical problems
• Familiarity with Git, source control practices, CI/CD concepts, testing and code review processes
• Ability to read documentation, understand requirements and translate operational needs into clear technical solutions
• Strong problem-solving skills, attention to detail and willingness to learn infrastructure platforms through development-focused work
• Good written and verbal communication skills, including technical documentation, status updates and operational reporting
• Interest in improving operational efficiency through automation, tooling, integration and continuous improvement

Preferred Qualifications:

• Exposure to Cloudian Hyper Store or another enterprise object storage platform
• Familiarity with S3-compatible storage concepts, including buckets, policies, replication, lifecycle management and access control
• Exposure to enterprise block storage, SAN fabrics, Brocade switches, HDS, HPE XP or similar storage platforms
• Experience with infrastructure automation and configuration management tools such as Ansible, Terraform, Jenkins, Git Hub Actions, Azure Dev Ops or similar platforms
• Experience developing REST API integrations, command-line tools, internal web tools, dashboards or reporting automation
• Familiarity with containers, Kubernetes, configuration management, observability platforms or infrastructure-as-code practices
• Knowledge of secure development practices, secrets management, auditability, compliance evidence collection and operational controls
• Exposure to multi-site or multi-region storage…