
Senior Storage Systems Engineer
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About the Position
We are seeking a hands-on Senior Storage Systems Engineer for a Large US hedge fund to support and improve large-scale Linux-based storage platforms. This role focuses on keeping production storage reliable and performant, troubleshooting filesystem and client-side issues, executing safe changes and migrations, and automating repetitive operational work. You will work closely with infrastructure, datacenter, vendor, and business teams across global environments.
Responsibilities
- Maintain the reliability, performance, and availability of enterprise storage and filesystem services.
- Operate storage platforms such as GPFS / IBM Storage Scale, NFS, Pure, VAST, NetApp, and NAS, block, and object storage systems.
- Troubleshoot storage, filesystem, multipath, and storage client issues in production, including latency, contention, and capacity events.
- Monitor storage capacity, performance, and growth trends; respond to incidents and service degradations.
- Manage quotas, snapshots, replication, tiering, and data lifecycle policies.
- Perform production changes, firmware and software upgrades, data migrations, and remediation with strong operational discipline.
- Support backup, recovery, and disaster recovery processes and periodic restore testing.
- Develop scripts and automation tools using Python, Bash, or similar technologies.
- Work with hardware vendors, datacenter teams, and internal stakeholders to resolve issues quickly.
- Improve monitoring, alerting, runbooks, and operational processes.
- Participate in incident response and occasional on-call support.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience in storage engineering, storage operations, or Linux infrastructure with significant storage responsibility.
- Good knowledge of storage technologies across file, block, and object storage.
- Solid Linux systems administration and production support skills.
- Understanding of storage client behavior, including NFS mounts, automount, multipath, and filesystem tuning.
- Understanding of networking fundamentals as they relate to storage, including DNS, throughput, and latency troubleshooting.
- Experience troubleshooting live issues using logs, metrics, and command-line tools.
- Scripting and automation experience with tools such as Python, Bash, Ansible, Salt, or Terraform.
- Strong communication, teamwork, and the ability to work effectively under pressure.
- Comfortable working close to production and solving real operational problems.
- Able to balance urgent incident response with long-term platform improvements.
- Organized, proactive, and careful with risk, change control, and communication.
Nice to Have
- Deep experience with GPFS / IBM Storage Scale, ESS, VAST, Pure, NetApp, or similar platforms.
- Experience with SAN/NAS fabrics, RDMA or InfiniBand, and high-throughput data paths.
- Familiarity with backup, replication, snapshots, quotas, and lifecycle policies at scale.
- Exposure to cloud and hybrid storage, CI/CD, and DevOps workflows.
- Experience with Kubernetes storage integration such as CSI drivers and persistent volumes.
- Background supporting research, trading, HPC, or other high-availability environments.
We Offer
- Competitive salary
- Opportunity to work in a dynamic and innovative environment
- Professional growth and development opportunities
About the Company
Luxoft is a global leader in digital transformation and technology services, empowering businesses to thrive in the digital age. With a strong focus on innovation and customer success, Luxoft delivers cutting-edge solutions that drive growth and efficiency for our clients.
Application
Interested candidates are invited to apply for the Senior Storage Systems Engineer position in Guadalajara, MX.
Note: This job description is a general outline of the role and responsibilities. It is not exhaustive and may be subject to change based on business needs.
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