Senior Storage Engineer📣 Job Ad
| Contract Type | Full-time | |
| Workplace type | Remote | |
| Location | Riyadh |
About the Role
Penta Consulting, a technology service provider delivering professional and managed solutions across EMEA, is seeking a Senior Storage Engineer to join their team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This full-time role is designed for an experienced professional with a proven background in architecting, deploying, configuring, and operating complex enterprise storage environments. The successful candidate will be responsible for managing and enhancing client storage infrastructure to ensure optimal performance, reliability, and scalability, requiring a deep understanding of various storage technologies and a proactive approach to problem-solving and automation.
Key Responsibilities
- Architect, deploy, and manage enterprise SAN, NAS, and object storage solutions across multi-vendor environments.
- Administer Dell EMC PowerScale (Isilon) clusters, including configurations for SmartPools, SmartQuotas, SyncIQ replication, and multi-protocol access.
- Deploy and operate Dell EMC ECS (Elastic Cloud Storage) as an S3-compatible object storage solution for large-scale unstructured data management.
- Configure and manage Dell EMC Data Domain appliances for backup landing, deduplication, DDBoost integration, and remote replication.
- Deploy, administer, and tune Pure Storage FlashArray (all-flash SAN) and FlashBlade (unstructured/NAS/object) platforms.
- Design and operate DDN storage solutions, including SFA, EXAScaler, and A3I, to support High-Performance Computing (HPC) and AI/ML data pipeline requirements.
- Deploy and administer open-source distributed storage solutions such as Lustre parallel filesystem, Ceph (RBD/CephFS/RGW), and MinIO object storage.
- Integrate storage platforms with virtualization layers, including VMware vSphere (VMFS, NFS) and Nutanix.
- Design and enforce comprehensive backup, snapshot, replication, and disaster recovery policies across all storage tiers.
- Monitor storage performance, capacity utilization, and hardware health, and lead incident response efforts for critical storage failures.
- Automate storage operations and workflows to improve efficiency and eliminate manual processes.
Qualifications and Requirements
- Extensive experience in architecting, deploying, configuring, and operating enterprise storage environments.
- Hands-on experience with multiple hardware storage platforms.
- Proficiency with open-source distributed filesystems.
- Experience in designing and enforcing backup, snapshot, replication, and disaster recovery policies.
- Demonstrated ability in monitoring storage performance, capacity utilization, and hardware health.
- Proven experience in leading incident response for critical storage failures.
- Strong capabilities in automating storage operations and eliminating manual workflows.
- 5-10 years of relevant experience is required.
Technical Skills
- Enterprise storage environments
- Dell EMC PowerScale (Isilon)
- Dell EMC ECS (Elastic Cloud Storage)
- Dell EMC Data Domain
- Pure Storage FlashArray
- Pure Storage FlashBlade
- DDN storage solutions
- Lustre parallel filesystem
- Ceph
- MinIO object storage
- VMware vSphere
- Nutanix
- Backup strategies and implementation
- Snapshot technologies
- Replication methodologies
- Disaster Recovery planning and execution
- Storage performance monitoring
- Capacity utilization monitoring
- Hardware health monitoring
- Incident response management
- Automation of IT processes
Work Environment and Location
This is a full-time position based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The role involves working within Penta Consulting's client-facing operations, requiring the engineer to manage and enhance client storage infrastructure.
Requirements
- Requires 5-10 Years experience
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