About the Job:
The company, a leader in AI-powered cloud and digital infrastructure, is driving transformative technology solutions globally. Leveraging advanced resources and partnerships, the company empowers clients to harness sovereign AI infrastructure, especially in sectors with stringent regulatory needs. With a mission to redefine digital transformation, we combine sovereign capabilities with scalable, high-performance compute infrastructure.
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The Opportunity:
The Lead Engineer - Storage and Data Protection contributes to the design, leads implementation, and provides Level 3 expert support for large-scale storage infrastructure, ensuring high levels of performance, scalability, reliability, and security. This role acts as a key subject matter expert and technical lead for engineers responsible for block, file, object storage, and backup across Cloud and HPC environments.
Key Responsibilities:
- Co-design, implement and manage PBs-scale block, file, and object storage solutions.
- Lead the implementation and lifecycle management of storage and backup services.
- Collaborate with architecture and platform engineering teams on technology evaluation, selection, integration, and solution design.
- Support the execution of storage roadmaps, standards, and service improvements.
- Lead capacity planning activities to ensure storage platforms meet current and future demand.
- Improve storage platform reliability and performance optimization.
- Evaluate and integrate advanced storage technologies.
- Define and execute disaster recovery and data protection strategies.
- Provide level 3 expert support and mentor storage engineers.
- Create and maintain documentation and improve operational workflows.
Qualifications & Experience:
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science, engineering, or related discipline.
- 7+ years of hands-on experience with large-scale storage platforms.
- 2+ years of experience leading a team of engineers.
- Strong experience with software-defined storage solutions.
- Deep expertise with storage vendors such as HPE, Dell, NetApp, and others.
- Strong knowledge of storage protocols (iSCSI, S3, NFS, NVMe/TCP).
- Proficiency in Linux administration and advanced experience with object storage platforms.
- Familiarity with cloud-native backup and DR solutions is desirable.
- Strong knowledge of backup systems, disaster recovery principles, and data protection strategies.
- Strong knowledge of encryption, hardening, security controls, and compliance requirements.
- Hands-on experience with monitoring and observability tools.
- Advanced scripting or programming skills (Python, Go, Bash).
Language Requirements:
Not explicitly stated.
What Working at the company Offers:
- Competitive salary based on skills and experience.
- Yearly performance-based bonus.
- Exclusive discount cards for various services.
- Premium family insurance coverage.
- Access to top-tier learning platforms for career growth.
