Job Titles: Senior Systems Engineer / Lead Systems Engineer 

Location: Abu Dhabi, UAE (Relocation Package Included)

Salary:  
Senior Engineer: Up to £34,000 AED/Month
Lead Engineer: Up to £40,000 AED/Month 

A highly sought-after opportunity to join an Abu Dhabi-based company, internationally renowned in the Artificial Intelligence sector, as they look to expand their Storage and Backups team. 
They are currently looking to make two hires - one Senior Systems Engineer and one Lead Systems Engineer. The Lead is the same skill-set as detailed below with an additional 2 years of experience leading a team of engineers.

In this role, you will co-design and implement large-scale, PBs-level block, object, and file storage solutions as integral components of Cloud and HPC environments. Your primary focus will be on ensuring the stability, performance, and compliance of storage solutions with industry standards and best practices. Additionally, you will be responsible for capacity planning, performance optimization, and providing expert L3 support.

Key Responsibilities:

• Co-design and implement scalable storage solutions, including block, object, and file storage, in Cloud and HPC environments.
• Collaborate with architecture and engineering teams to evaluate and select storage and backup technologies.
• Perform capacity planning and optimise storage infrastructure to meet current and future demands.
• Develop and implement technical changes to enhance storage reliability and high availability.
• Evaluate and integrate advanced storage technologies, such as Software-Defined Storage (SDS).
• Design and enhance the observability stack in collaboration with the IaaS operations team.
• Provide L3 expert support and resolve complex storage issues in collaboration with vendors.
• Ensure storage systems are secure and comply with cybersecurity best practices.
• Maintain and update documentation to ensure accuracy and completeness.

Skills and Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in designing, implementing, and managing large-scale Software-Defined Storage (SDS) solutions.
• Hands-on experience with storage systems from leading vendors such as HPE, Dell, NetApp, Hitachi, IBM, PureStorage, or VAST Data.
• Proficient in storage protocols (iSCSI, S3, NFS, FC[oE], NVME over TCP) and Linux/Linux kernel storage stack.
• Experience managing object storage solutions (e.g., SeaweedFS, MinIO, Cloudian HyperStore).
• Familiarity with cloud-native backup solutions for OpenStack (e.g., Freezer, Karbor, Trilio).
• Expertise in clustered/parallel file systems (Lustre, GPFS) and container storage technologies (Rook, CSI, PVC).
• Knowledge of identity management and authorization solutions (PKI, LDAP, OAUTH, OpenID).
• Strong understanding of backup systems, disaster recovery principles, and data protection strategies.
• Experience with data encryption, security practices, and hardening of Storage and Backup systems.
• Solid knowledge of data centre network design and related technologies (OSI model, TCP/IP stack, firewalling, routing, VLAN/VxLAN).
• Hands-on experience with monitoring and observability tools (Zabbix, Nagios, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack).
• Familiarity with CI/CD principles, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and software-defined infrastructure solutions.
• Advanced programming and scripting skills in Python, Golang, and bash.

If you have a passion for cutting-edge storage technology and meet the qualifications listed above, apply and join their dynamic team now!

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