Storage Engineer

Systems Storage IT Engineer

Location: Bangalore (Hybrid - at least 1 or 2 days in a week)

Experience: 5+ Years

About the Role

We are looking for an experienced Systems Storage IT Engineer to support, operate, and scale global enterprise storage platforms.

This contractor role focuses on the day-to-day operation, maintenance, performance, availability, and reliability of production storage environments. You will work closely with infrastructure, engineering, and application teams to deliver reliable and scalable storage services.

Key Responsibilities

• Monitor, operate, administer, and maintain NAS, SAN, and Object Storage platforms, ensuring high availability and optimal performance.
• Troubleshoot and resolve storage-related incidents and escalate complex issues to appropriate engineering or vendor teams.
• Support NetApp, Pure FlashBlade, DDN, Lustre, Ceph, and related enterprise storage technologies.
• Develop and maintain automation scripts and operational tools to improve efficiency and reduce manual effort.
• Perform storage capacity analysis, forecasting, and planning to support infrastructure and business growth.
• Collaborate with infrastructure and engineering teams on storage deployments, configurations, upgrades, migrations, and integrations.
• Support application onboarding, testing, validation, and production-readiness activities.
• Participate in incident response, operational support, and on-call/holiday rotations as required.
• Create and maintain technical documentation, operational runbooks, SOPs, and storage best practices.
• Continuously identify opportunities to improve platform reliability, scalability, automation, and operational efficiency.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Storage Administration, Infrastructure Operations, Systems Engineering, or Platform Support.
• Strong hands-on experience managing enterprise NAS, SAN, and/or Object Storage environments.
• Production experience with one or more of:
• NetApp
• Pure Storage FlashBlade
• DDN
• Lustre
• Ceph
• Experience supporting highly available and scalable infrastructure in 24x7 production environments.
• Strong knowledge of storage troubleshooting, performance monitoring, incident management, and capacity planning.
• Experience with automation and scripting relevant to infrastructure/storage operations.
• Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, logging, and version control tools, including Git and/or Perforce.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving capabilities.
• Good communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively with global infrastructure and engineering teams.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related discipline.

Nice to Have

• Understanding of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) concepts, including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, observability, and reliability engineering.
• Experience supporting large-scale distributed systems.
• Exposure to infrastructure automation and Infrastructure-as-Code practices.
• Experience working with geographically distributed/global infrastructure teams.
• Ability to work independently, take ownership of operational issues, and deliver effectively in a contractor engagement.