As a storage engineer of our Storage team in Chicago, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, managing, and maintaining data storage systems and solutions.This role involves the end-to-end management of our organization's data storage infrastructure. This includes strategic design for scalability, hands-on implementation and integration, continuous performance monitoring, capacity planning, security, and troubleshooting. It also requires proactive maintenance with updates, backups, disaster recovery, and planning for future growth by evaluating and recommending new technologies for data availability, reliability, and efficiency. Sounds exciting? Keep reading! What You'll Do: • Design and deploy storage infrastructure (SAN, NAS, DAS, Object Storage) in accordance with organizational needs. • Monitor and maintain storage systems to guarantee optimal performance, availability, and reliability. • Perform capacity planning and forecasting for future storage needs. • Develop and implement strategies for backup, replication, and disaster recovery. • Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to storage systems. • Maintain documentation of configurations, procedures, and standards. • Collaborate with other Platform Engineering teams on system upgrades, migrations, and integrations. • Automate storage provisioning and management using scripting or infrastructure-as-code tools. Who You Are: • 3-5+ years of experience in Linux systems administration with a focus on storage (e.g., Ceph) • Proven experience with enterprise storage systems (e.g., Purestorage, NetApp, EMC, Dell, IBM, Hitachi). • You have a strong understanding of RAID, LVM, NFS, iSCSI, multipathing, and file systems (ext4, XFS, ZFS, etc.) • Hands-on experience with enterprise storage systems and clustering technologies • Proficiency in shell scripting; You have Python, Puppet or Ansible knowledge • Experience with virtualization technologies such as VMware or KVM. • You have familiarity with cloud storage solutions like AWS S3 and EBS. • Experience with monitoring tools (Nagios, Prometheus, Zabbix, etc.) Ready to meet us? If you are excited about this role, apply by clicking the link below. We can't wait to meet you! What's next? Ensuring a smooth and enjoyable candidate experience is critical for us. We aim to get back to you regarding your application within 5 business days. Our interview process tends to take about 4 weeks to complete, but may fluctuate depending on the role. Learn more about our hiring process here. Don't be afraid to let us know if you need more flexibility. The annual base salary range for this role is $180,000 - $243,000; to learn more about our compensation philosophy, please clickhere