Infrastructure Engineer (Storage, WEKA/CEPH): £200k + Bonus

Platform Storage Specialist

Location: London, United Kingdom

Salary: £200,000 + Bonus/Benefits

We are partnering with a leading global investment and technology-driven organisation seeking an experienced Platform Storage Specialist to join its growing infrastructure team in London.

This is an opportunity to work on large-scale, business-critical storage platforms supporting high-performance compute environments across a global estate. The successful candidate will play a key role in designing, building, automating, and optimising enterprise storage services that underpin a rapidly expanding technology environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and manage distributed storage platforms at scale

• Architect and maintain high-performance storage solutions including NFS, GPFS, WEKA, object storage, and related technologies

• Perform capacity planning, forecasting, and lifecycle management across storage environments

• Monitor and optimise storage performance, identifying bottlenecks and implementing improvements

• Develop automation and tooling for storage provisioning, configuration management, and operational efficiency

• Collaborate closely with infrastructure, networking, and engineering teams to deliver highly available storage services

• Enhance monitoring, observability, alerting, and incident response capabilities

• Evaluate and implement emerging storage technologies and cloud storage services

• Ensure data integrity, resilience, and disaster recovery readiness across critical platforms

• Produce and maintain technical documentation, operational procedures, and runbooks

Required Experience

• 5+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering with a strong focus on Linux and enterprise storage administration

• Deep knowledge of distributed storage technologies such as GPFS, WEKA, Lustre, Ceph, NFS, or similar platforms

• Experience with storage performance analysis, benchmarking, and optimisation

• Strong automation skills using Python and infrastructure management tools such as Ansible or Chef

• Experience working with CI/CD pipelines, version control systems, and modern engineering practices

• Knowledge of observability platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, Elasticsearch, Kibana, or Datadog

• Experience supporting cloud storage services across AWS and/or GCP

• Strong troubleshooting, communication, and stakeholder management skills

Desirable Experience

• Object storage platforms such as MinIO, Cloudian, or S3-compatible technologies

• Storage hardware, NVMe, SSD, disk arrays, storage networking, and HBAs

• Backup, replication, disaster recovery, and data protection strategies

• High-performance computing (HPC) environments

• Storage tiering and data lifecycle management

This position offers the opportunity to work within a highly technical environment where infrastructure performance, scalability, and automation are core to the organisation's success.

If interested, please apply with your updated CV.

Email: jhayne@hunterbond.com