Senior Storage Engineer
Saudi Arabia - RiyadhFull-TimeSeniorSoftware Engineering
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and manage Pure Storage FlashArray solutions, including capacity planning, performance tuning, and lifecycle management
- Configure, maintain, and optimize Dell ECS Object Storage environments for various enterprise workloads
- Develop storage architecture roadmaps and migration strategies aligned with organizational needs
- Implement storage tiering strategies that leverage both high-performance flash storage and object storage capabilities
- Monitor storage system health, performance, and capacity utilization across all environments
- Lead the operations of enterprise/cloud storage infrastructure
- Troubleshoot complex storage-related issues and implement permanent resolutions
- Design and implement robust data protection, backup, and disaster recovery solutions
- Establish and maintain storage best practices, procedures, and documentation
- Execute storage infrastructure upgrades and expansions with minimal business impact
- Collaborate with application teams to understand storage requirements and provide appropriate solutions
- Provide technical mentorship to junior storage engineers
- Participate in after-hours on-call rotation for critical storage infrastructure support
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field
- 8+ years of experience in storage engineering roles
- Minimum3+ years of hands-on experience with Pure Storage FlashArray technologies
- Minimum 2+ years of experience with Dell ECS Object Storage or similar object storage platforms
- Strong knowledge of storage concepts, protocols, and technologies (FC, iSCSI, NVMEover TCP, NFS, SMB, S3, Swift)
- Experience with storage virtualization, thin provisioning, deduplication, and compression
- Proficiency in storage performance analysis, optimization, and capacity planning
- Experience implementing and managing data protection and disaster recovery solutions
- Strong understanding of enterprise backup solutions and methodologies
- Pure Storage certification (Pure Storage Associate or Professional) preferred
- Understanding of containerized workloads and their storage requirements
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and documentation skills
- Strong communication and collaboration abilities
- Experience working in regulated or high-availability environments
Additional skills (Nice to have)
- Experience with additional storage platforms (Dell, NetApp, HPE, IBM, etc.)
- Experience with automating storage management tasks using scripting/APIs
- Knowledge of cloud storage solutions
- Familiarity with storage orchestration and automation frameworks
- Experience with VMware/OpenStack and storage integration
- Knowledge of data migration tools and methodologies
- Experience with software-defined storage solutions
- Familiarity with storage performance testing and analysis tools
- Background in database storage optimization (Oracle, SQL Server, etc.)
- Experience with data governance and compliance requirements
- Knowledge of data lifecycle management and information lifecycle management
- CI/CD experience related to infrastructure as code for storage
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