Platform Specialist

Position Overview:

Squarepoint is looking for a Platform Storage Specialist to join our growing global team. The candidate will work alongside our team to design, build, and maintain enterprise-grade storage services that are continuously scaling to support the growth of the company. This role requires in-depth knowledge of distributed storage systems, storage architectures, and storage protocols, including performance optimization, capacity planning, and data lifecycle management. The candidate will ideally have experience with on-premises storage infrastructure, network-attached storage, parallel file systems, object storage, and cloud-based storage platforms. Your day-to-day could consist of storage infrastructure design and deployment, performance tuning and troubleshooting, monitoring and alerting improvements, capacity management, automation and tool development, and much more.

Main Duties & Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and manage distributed storage systems efficiently at scale through standardization, automation, testing, and in-depth monitoring
• Architect and maintain high-performance storage solutions including NFS, GPFS, WEKA, and object storage platforms
• Perform storage capacity planning, forecasting, and lifecycle management to ensure optimal utilization and cost efficiency
• Monitor storage performance metrics, identify bottlenecks, and implement tuning and optimization strategies
• Develop and maintain automation tooling for storage provisioning, configuration, and health monitoring
• Collaborate with compute, networking, and application teams to ensure storage solutions meet performance and reliability requirements
• Implement and improve storage-related observability, alerting, and incident response processes
• Evaluate and integrate new storage technologies, including cloud-based storage services (AWS S3, EBS, EFS, GCP Cloud Storage, Filestore, etc.)
• Ensure data integrity, availability, and disaster recovery readiness across storage platforms
• Document storage architecture, runbooks, and operational procedures

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in a technology infrastructure role with a strong focus on storage administration and Linux administration
• Deep expertise with distributed storage systems and storage protocols (NFS, GPFS, WEKA, Lustre, Ceph, or similar)
• Experience with storage performance analysis, benchmarking, and optimization
• Experience working with configuration management driven administration using tools such as Chef or Ansible
• Proficient in Python, or other high-level language (Go, Rust, etc.) for automation and tooling development
• Experience with modern software development practices: version control, agile development, CI/CD
• Experience with observability in distributed systems (e.g., Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana)
• Experience working with cloud storage services across various cloud providers (AWS and GCP)
• Bachelor's Degree in an Engineering discipline or related area
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with object storage systems (Cloudian, MinIO, S3-compatible platforms)
• Familiarity with storage hardware (disk arrays, JBODs, NVMe/SSD technologies, HBAs, and storage networking)
• Experience with data protection strategies including backup, replication, and disaster recovery
• Understanding of storage tiering and data lifecycle policies
• Knowledge of high-performance computing (HPC) storage workloads and patterns
• Eagerness to continuously learn new storage technologies and develop with us
• Ability to work well in a fast-paced, adaptable, and pressured environment