Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. The Voleon Group is a technology company that applies state-of-the-art AI and machine learning techniques to real-world problems in finance. They are seeking a hands-on and strategic Storage and Datacenter Team Manager to guide and grow their critical Storage Engineering team, providing architectural oversight, mentorship, and direct implementation support.
Responsibilities
- Lead a small team of storage, database, and systems administrators with duties including mentorship, performance management, and career development
- Coordinate datacenter operations across production and research facilities, including scheduling site work and managing vendor/contractor visits
- Align team priorities with organizational goals and ensure timely delivery of projects
- Participate in hiring efforts to grow and evolve the storage engineering team
- Coordinate on-call schedules and ensure effective incident response processes are in place
- Architect, implement, and maintain highly available and performant storage systems
- Define and drive automation strategies for storage deployment and monitoring
- Oversee storage lifecycle management including capacity planning, performance tuning, and data protection strategies such as archiving and backups for large-scale datasets
- Provide architectural guidance and hands-on support for Ceph at PB scale
- Oversee physical datacenter infrastructure including rack layout planning, power distribution, cooling systems, and capacity forecasting for space, power, and cooling
- Manage equipment installation and decommissioning
- Collaborate closely with networking, virtualization, research, and application teams to support diverse compute and storage needs
- Participate in and improve CI/CD and configuration management processes with tools like Ansible and Git
- Support database operations through database tuning, storage optimization, and collaboration with developers
- Develop and maintain runbooks for remote-hands work and coordinate with contractors and facility personnel to perform onsite operations
- Serve as an escalation point for advanced troubleshooting of distributed filesystems, databases, and high-performance storage infrastructure
- Hands-on administration of Linux servers, network-attached storage, virtualization platforms, and cluster frameworks
- Installation, cabling, and troubleshooting of physical server, storage, and network hardware in rack environments
- Diagnose and resolve hardware-level issues impacting production systems
- Support and enhance observability using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and others
Skills
- 5+ years of Linux Systems Administration experience with significant recent focus on storage systems
- 2+ years of team leadership, technical project management, or mentoring experience
- Knowledge of distributed storage systems such as Ceph and storage technologies including RAID, SAN, and NAS
- Experience streamlining data lifecycle processes, including archiving, backup, and retention of PB-scale data
- Hands-on experience with co-located data center infrastructure
- Ability to travel to remote datacenter sites when needed
- Strong scripting/development experience in Bash and/or Python
- Experience with configuration management tools (Ansible) and infrastructure automation
- Familiarity with monitoring and alerting systems (Nagios/CheckMK, Prometheus, Grafana)
- Understanding of virtualization (KVM, ESXi) and containerization (Docker, Podman)
- Knowledge of LDAP/IPA/AD and centralized identity management
- Experience with Kubernetes container orchestration
- PostgreSQL DBA experience
- Experience in a high-throughput research or trading environment
- Exposure to RHEL/CentOS/Rocky Linux in enterprise settings
- Experience with DCIM tools for tracking assets, power, and space
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps principles
- Experience managing colocation vendor relationships and SLAs
Benefits
- Offers Bonus
- We offer highly competitive compensation and benefits packages
- Technology talks by our experts
- A beautiful modern office
- Daily catered lunches
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