Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. BRK Tech, a Berkshire Hathaway Group Company, partners with Berkshire Hathaway businesses to design, build, and operate modern technology platforms at scale. The Principal Storage Network Engineer will lead the strategy, architecture, and execution of the Continuous Availability Fabric while designing resilient storage network fabrics, optimizing connectivity for distributed storage systems, evaluating emerging technologies, and maintaining high-performance networking hardware.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and architecture of Triple-Path Network Fabrics (N+2), ensuring physical or logical isolation between Production, Replication, and Maintenance traffic paths
- Implement and maintain the 'Hardened Storage Vault,' ensuring network-level N+3 resilience and high-availability sharding
- Optimize connectivity for Bare Metal K8s, Nutanix and or Openstack Access Layers, ensuring seamless driver integration for Ceph and NVMe-oF
- Evaluate emerging storage-networking technologies (e.g., NVMe over TCP, S3 Object, and Legacy CIFS/NFS) to recommend strategic infrastructure investments
- Configure and maintain high-performance hardware, specifically Dell R660/R760 platforms equipped with Nvidia ConnectX-7 or equivalent high-speed NICs
Skills
- 10+ years of professional experience in Network Engineering
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience
- Experience specifically in Storage Fabric Architecture and Design
- Experience with storage-centric networking protocols, including NVMe-oF (TCP), BGP, OSPF, and QoS
- Hands-on experience with high-performance data center equipment, like Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, and Nvidia/Mellanox fabric switches
- Knowledge of Software Defined Storage Networking
- Experience solving analytical problems with quantitative approaches related to storage latency and throughput
Benefits
- Remote work (US only)
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