Senior Storage Engineer

About the Job:
The company is a technology service provider and leading outsourced partner delivering professional and managed solutions across EMEA. We are seeking a Senior Storage & Backup Engineer with extensive experience in architecting, deploying, configuring, and operating enterprise storage environments across multiple hardware platforms and open-source distributed filesystems.

Key Responsibilities:

• Personally architect, deploy, and manage enterprise SAN, NAS, and object storage in multi-vendor environments.
• Administer Dell EMC PowerScale (Isilon) OneFS clusters: SmartPools, SmartQuotas, SyncIQ replication, and multi-protocol access.
• Deploy and operate Dell EMC ECS (Elastic Cloud Storage) for S3-compatible object storage handling 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 FlashArray (all-flash SAN) and FlashBlade (unstructured / NAS / object) platforms.
• Design and operate DDN storage solutions (SFA, EXAScaler, A3I) to support HPC and AI/ML data pipeline requirements.
• Deploy and administer open-source distributed storage solutions: Lustre parallel filesystem, 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 incident response for critical storage failures.
• Automate storage operations and eliminate manual workflows.

Work Conditions:
On-site, Full-time

Location:
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Language Requirements:
Not specified.