Storage Engineer

£540 per day including holiday pay on PAYE

We’re currently recruiting for an experienced Storage Engineer with a strong software development background to join our client’s technology team in Glasgow.

This is an exciting opportunity for someone who combines advanced programming skills with solid storage and Linux expertise , working on highly available, scalable infrastructure solutions within a global enterprise environment.

The Role

You’ll play a key role in designing, developing and integrating solutions across the firm-wide storage platform, covering areas such as:

• Storage provisioning, monitoring, alerting, auditing and inventory management
• Development of in-house applications and automation tools
• Problem management, preventive maintenance and capacity management
• Storage virtualisation, automation and software-defined storage
• Distributed and scale-out file systems
• Infrastructure automation and observability
• Integration with third-party storage technologies and vendors
• Working closely with customers to understand requirements and communicate technical solutions
• Collaborating as part of a global technology team

What We’re Looking For

We’re looking for someone with:

• Strong software development experience, ideally with Python and/or Perl
• Experience working across the full Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
• Strong Computer Science fundamentals
• Intermediate-to-advanced experience administering Linux/RHEL in an enterprise environment
• Strong troubleshooting skills across operating systems, networks and storage
• Excellent communication, organisation and prioritisation skills

Experience with some of the following would be highly beneficial:

• IBM GPFS / Storage Scale
• Fibre Channel, iSCSI, SCSI, NFS, CIFS and POSIX
• Object storage, SAS, SATA, NVMe/SSD
• RAID and erasure coding
• Distributed and scale-out storage
• High-availability architectures
• Storage databases and SQL
• Networking protocols and connectivity
• Enterprise UNIX/RHEL and Windows Server environments
• OpenShift, Kubernetes and Docker
• Cloud platforms including Azure, AWS or Google Cloud
• Storage virtualisation, performance and capacity management
• NetApp, HDS, EMC, Brocade, Veritas, Sybase and/or DB2 technologies

Programming: Advanced

Please note that our client operates a Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policy when working outside the office, so candidates will need access to a personal device.