Storage Engineer (NetApp / Pure / Ceph)
$100,000–$150,000 year
Remote · United States
Job Summary
Storage Engineer with 5+ years of enterprise storage experience focused on NetApp ONTAP, Pure Storage, and Ceph. Responsible for designing, deploying, and operating storage across data center, edge, and cloud environments, including block, file, and object storage. Key duties include building and managing SAN/NAS/object storage, supporting VMware and Kubernetes (CSI), implementing replication, snapshots, and backups, enabling cloud-tiered storage, developing storage automation (Ansible, Terraform, REST APIs), operating Ceph clusters (OSD, CRUSH, RGW, RBD, CephFS), optimizing performance and cost, ensuring data protection and ransomware defenses, maintaining observability of capacity and health, leading upgrades and patching, and driving deduplication and tiering strategies. The role requires staying current with storage industry developments and delivering recommendations for adoption. A technical coding assessment is mandatory during apply.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field
- Five or more years of enterprise storage engineering experience
- Deep expertise in NetApp ONTAP or Pure Storage FlashArray/FlashBlade
- Hands-on experience with Ceph at production scale
- Strong scripting and automation skills using Ansible, Terraform, or REST APIs
- Experience with storage integration for VMware and Kubernetes (CSI)
- Strong understanding of SAN, NAS, and object storage protocols
- Strong understanding of storage performance, capacity planning, and cost optimization
- Strong troubleshooting skills across storage, network, and host layers
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
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