Senior Storage Engineer

Penta Consulting are a technology service provider and leading outsourced partner helping to deliver professional and managed solutions across EMEA.

We are seeking a Senior Storage & Backup Engineer who has personally architected, deployed, configured, and operated enterprise storage environments spanning multiple hardware platforms and open-source distributed file systems.

• Personally architect, deploy, and manage enterprise SAN, NAS, and object storage across multi-vendor environments.
• Administer Dell EMC Power Scale (Isilon) OneFS clusters:
  Smart Pools, Smart Quotas, SyncIQ replication, and multi-protocol access.
• Deploy and operate Dell EMC ECS (Elastic Cloud Storage) as S3-compatible object storage for large-scale unstructured data.
• Configure and manage Dell EMC Data Domain appliances for backup landing, deduplication, DDBoost integration, and remote replication.
• Deploy, administer, and tune Pure Storage Flash Array (all-flash SAN) and Flash Blade (unstructured / NAS / object) platforms.
• Design and operate DDN storage solutions (SFA, EXAScaler, A3I) for HPC and AI/ML data pipeline requirements.
• Deploy and administer open-source distributed storage:
  Lustre parallel file system, Ceph (RBD/CephFS/RGW), and MinIO object storage.
• Integrate storage platforms with virtualization layers: VMware vSphere (VMFS, NFS), and Nutanix.
• Design and enforce backup, snapshot, replication, and disaster recovery policies across all storage tiers.
• Monitor storage performance, capacity utilization, and hardware health; lead to incident response for critical storage failures.
• Automate storage operations and eliminate manual workflows.