Senior Storage Engineer (, , United Kingdom)

Senior Storage Engineer

Salary: £125k-175k

Total compensation: £200k-400k depending on seniority and performance

I'm partnered with a global quant trading firm looking for a Senior Storage Engineer to join their Infrastructure Engineering team in London.

You'll work at the heart of research and trading operations collaborating closely with Researchers and Engineers to design, deploy, and optimize high-throughput storage platforms that support cutting-edge trading, data-intensive research and AI/ML modeling.

What You’ll Do:

• Design and maintain large-scale, Linux-based storage systems for high-performance compute environments
• Partner with research teams to translate AI/ML and data modeling requirements into scalable storage solutions
• Work with technologies such as NFS, S3, GPFS, Lustre, CEPH, VAST, WEKA, or DDN
• Optimize storage and network performance using advanced benchmarking and kernel tuning techniques
• Contribute to infrastructure automation using Terraform, Ansible, and CI/CD tools like GitLab and Jenkins

What You Bring:

• 8+ years of hands-on experience in storage systems and infrastructure engineering
• Deep knowledge of high-performance storage protocols (POSIX, NFS, CIFS, S3) and network technologies (ROCE, Infiniband, kernel bypass)
• Strong scripting or programming experience (Python, Golang or similar)
• Passion for performance optimization, automation, and technical problem-solving
• Experience supporting HPC environments or AI/ML research workloads is a strong plus