About the Position

Senior System Administrator (Storage Engineer)

Chicago

This is Adyen

Adyen provides payments, data, and financial products in a single solution for customers like Meta, Uber, H&M, and Microsoft - making us the financial technology platform of choice. At Adyen, everything we do is engineered for ambition.

For our teams, we create an environment with opportunities for our people to succeed, backed by the culture and support to ensure they are enabled to truly own their careers. We are motivated individuals who tackle unique technical challenges at scale and solve them as a team. Together, we deliver innovative and ethical solutions that help businesses achieve their ambitions faster.

Why You Should Join the Adyen Storage Team

This team is part of our Platform Engineering Solution. The purpose of Platform Engineering is to enable Adyen engineers to autonomously build and support secure, scalable, and reliable applications with high speed and quality through a common technology ecosystem.

As a storage engineer of our Storage team in Chicago, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, managing, and maintaining data storage systems and solutions. This role involves the end-to-end management of our organization's data storage infrastructure. This includes strategic design for scalability, hands-on implementation and integration, continuous performance monitoring, capacity planning, security, and troubleshooting. It also requires proactive maintenance with updates, backups, disaster recovery, and planning for future growth by evaluating and recommending new technologies for data availability, reliability, and efficiency.

Responsibilities

Design and deploy storage infrastructure (SAN, NAS, DAS, Object Storage) in accordance with organizational needs.
Monitor and maintain storage systems to guarantee optimal performance, availability, and reliability.
Perform capacity planning and forecasting for future storage needs.
Develop and implement strategies for backup, replication, and disaster recovery.
Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to storage systems.
Maintain documentation of configurations, procedures, and standards.
Collaborate with other Platform Engineering teams on system upgrades, migrations, and integrations.
Automate storage provisioning and management using scripting or infrastructure-as-code tools.

Requirements

3–5+ years of experience in Linux systems administration with a focus on storage (e.g., Ceph)
Proven experience with enterprise storage systems (e.g., Purestorage, NetApp, EMC, Dell, IBM, Hitachi).
Strong understanding of RAID, LVM, NFS, iSCSI, multipathing, and file systems (ext4, XFS, ZFS, etc.)
Hands-on experience with enterprise storage systems and clustering technologies
Proficiency in shell scripting; You have Python, Puppet, or Ansible knowledge
Experience with virtualization technologies such as VMware or KVM.
Familiarity with cloud storage solutions like AWS S3 and EBS.
Experience with monitoring tools (Nagios, Prometheus, Zabbix, etc.)

We Offer

The annual base salary range for this role is $180,000 - $243,000. Compensation is based on factors including qualifications, experience, and location. Total compensation package includes equity (RSUs), 401(k), health, dental, vision, and more.

About the Company

We actively seek different perspectives to sharpen our ideas. Our unique culture is a product of our diverse backgrounds and experiences. No matter who you are or where you’re from, you’re welcome to be your true self at Adyen.

If you need accommodations or support during the recruitment process to perform at your best, you’ll have the opportunity to let our team know in your application. We encourage people from all backgrounds and abilities to apply.

EEO Statement

Adyen is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status, or any legally protected status. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Work Eligibility

You must be work authorized in the United States without the need for new visa sponsorship. The company can support visa transfers but will not sponsor individuals for H-1B CAP applications.

Senior System Administrator (Storage Engineer)

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