About the Job
Core42 is the UAE's national-scale enabler for cloud and generative AI, merging expertise across multiple technology disciplines into a single platform for public sector and large enterprise transformations. As a Lead Systems Engineer – Storage Infrastructure, you will engage in the design, lead implementation, and provide Level 3 expert support for extra-large scale storage infrastructure, ensuring the highest levels of performance, scalability, and reliability. You will serve as a key subject matter expert, leading a team responsible for block, object, or file storage solutions and backup services.
Responsibilities
- Co-design, lead implementation, and manage PB-level block, object, and file storage solutions as essential components of Cloud and HPC environments, ensuring stability, performance, and compliance with industry standards and best practices.
- Define and oversee the implementation roadmap for all storage solutions and services across the company.
- Collaborate with architecture and other engineering teams on evaluating and selecting storage and backup technology components, ensuring solutions are optimized both functionally and non-functionally.
- Lead regular capacity planning exercises to anticipate and meet the growing demands on the storage infrastructure.
- Develop plans to enhance storage infrastructure reliability, addressing potential points of failure to ensure high availability of storage services.
- Explore and implement performance optimization strategies for storage solutions.
- Evaluate and integrate new storage technologies and methodologies to enhance features, performance, and efficiency.
- Define and execute disaster recovery strategies to ensure data integrity and protection across all platforms and environments.
- Design and enhance observability stack in collaboration with the IaaS operations team.
- Provide Level 3 expert support, including on-call shifts, and serve as the final tier of resolution for Level 2 support teams.
- Lead and mentor a team of storage engineers and collaborate with other engineering teams on solution design and delivery.
- Collaborate with security management teams to ensure systems are secure against cyber threats.
- Write and maintain relevant documentation ensuring completeness and quality.
- Work closely with process management and operational teams to contribute to process development, standardizing collaboration frameworks.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, engineering, software engineering, or related field in technology.
- 2+ years of experience leading a team of 3+ engineers and holding accountability for quality and timely delivery of infrastructure projects.
- 7+ years of in-depth expertise in designing, implementing, and managing large-scale software-defined storage (SDS) solutions.
- Hands-on experience with major storage systems vendors including HPE, Dell, NetApp, IBM, or PureStorage.
- Strong knowledge of storage protocols for block, object, and file storage such as iSCSI, S3, NFS, FC[oE], NVME over TCP.
- Proficient with Linux and capable of debugging storage-related issues.
- Experience with object storage solutions like SeaweedFS, MinIO, or Dell ECS is highly desirable.
- Familiarity with containerization technologies and CI/CD principles.
- Advanced programming and scripting skills in Python and/or Golang, and bash.
- Solid understanding of backup systems, disaster recovery principles, and data protection strategies.
What We Look For
We are looking for a performance-driven, inquisitive mind with the agility to adapt to ambiguity. You should be eager to build meaningful collaborations and create customer-centric solutions. We value a bias for action and a passion for pioneering advancements in the AI space.
What Working At Core42 Offers
- Culture: An open, diverse, and inclusive environment encouraging personal growth and pioneering innovations.
- Career: Opportunities for outstanding learning, development, and growth via training programs and innovative projects.
- Work-Life: A hybrid work policy offering a balance between office and home.
- Rewards: A competitive remuneration package with healthcare, education support, leave benefits, and more.
If you meet the criteria above, please reach out as soon as possible.
