Storage Engineer (Software Defined Storage) - Up to £180k + Industry Leading Bonus

Job title: Storage Engineer (Software Defined Storage)

Client: Elite FinTech Firm

Location: London (Hybrid)

Compensation: Up to £180k base + substantial discretionary bonus + exceptional benefits

My client is looking for a highly skilled Storage Engineer to join their rapidly expanding global infrastructure team.

This is a rare opportunity to work on mission-critical storage platforms powering some of the most demanding compute environments in the industry.

You’ll play a key role in designing and scaling next-generation enterprise storage systems supporting high-performance tech and research workloads globally.

Role

• Design, deploy, and scale enterprise-grade distributed storage infrastructure
• Architect and maintain high-performance storage platforms including NFS, GPFS, WEKA, object storage, and cloud-native solutions
• Optimise storage environments for performance-critical compute and research workloads
• Drive automation, monitoring, and observability improvements across storage services
• Perform capacity planning, forecasting, and lifecycle management at scale
• Troubleshoot complex storage and performance issues across distributed systems
• Work closely with compute, networking, and application engineering teams globally
• Evaluate and integrate emerging storage technologies and architectures
• Contribute to long-term platform strategy, tooling, and operational excellence

Skills / Experience (Desired - they're flexible)

• Strong experience administering Linux and enterprise storage infrastructure in large-scale environments
• Deep understanding of distributed storage systems and storage protocols (GPFS, WEKA, Lustre, Ceph, NFS, or similar)
• Experience with storage performance analysis, benchmarking, and optimisation
• Strong automation and scripting skills using Python or similar
• Experience with infrastructure automation tools such as Ansible or Chef
• Knowledge of cloud storage platforms across AWS and/or GCP
• Strong understanding of observability and monitoring within distributed systems
• Familiarity with modern software engineering practices including CI/CD and version control
• Understanding of storage hardware, NVMe/SSD technologies, and storage networking is advantageous
• Experience within HPC or performance-sensitive environments is highly beneficial

Sells

• Join one of the world’s most technologically advanced firms
• Work on globally distributed, high-performance infrastructure at enormous scale
• Exposure to cutting-edge storage technologies and greenfield engineering projects
• Flat, engineer-led environment with significant ownership and autonomy
• Opportunity to influence architecture and platform strategy from an early stage
• Exceptional compensation, benefits, and long-term growth potential