We are partnering with a leading global investment and technology-driven organisation seeking an experienced Platform Storage Specialist to join its growing infrastructure team in London.
This is an opportunity to work on large-scale, business-critical storage platforms supporting high-performance compute environments across a global estate. The successful candidate will play a key role in designing, building, automating, and optimising enterprise storage services that underpin a rapidly expanding technology environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, deploy, and manage distributed storage platforms at scale
- Architect and maintain high-performance storage solutions including NFS, GPFS, WEKA, object storage, and related technologies
- Perform capacity planning, forecasting, and lifecycle management across storage environments
- Monitor and optimise storage performance, identifying bottlenecks and implementing improvements
- Develop automation and tooling for storage provisioning, configuration management, and operational efficiency
- Collaborate closely with infrastructure, networking, and engineering teams to deliver highly available storage services
- Enhance monitoring, observability, alerting, and incident response capabilities
- Evaluate and implement emerging storage technologies and cloud storage services
- Ensure data integrity, resilience, and disaster recovery readiness across critical platforms
- Produce and maintain technical documentation, operational procedures, and runbooks
Required Experience
- 5+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering with a strong focus on Linux and enterprise storage administration
- Deep knowledge of distributed storage technologies such as GPFS, WEKA, Lustre, Ceph, NFS, or similar platforms
- Experience with storage performance analysis, benchmarking, and optimisation
- Strong automation skills using Python and infrastructure management tools such as Ansible or Chef
- Experience working with CI/CD pipelines, version control systems, and modern engineering practices
- Knowledge of observability platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, Elasticsearch, Kibana, or Datadog
- Experience supporting cloud storage services across AWS and/or GCP
- Strong troubleshooting, communication, and stakeholder management skills
- Object storage platforms such as MinIO, Cloudian, or S3-compatible technologies
- Storage hardware, NVMe, SSD, disk arrays, storage networking, and HBAs
- Backup, replication, disaster recovery, and data protection strategies
- High-performance computing (HPC) environments
- Storage tiering and data lifecycle management
This position offers the opportunity to work within a highly technical environment where infrastructure performance, scalability, and automation are core to the organisation's success.
If interested, please apply with your updated CV.
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