Senior Enterprise Engineer (Storage)

At LinkedIn our approach to flexible work is centered on trust and optimized for culture connection clarity and the evolving needs of our business. The work location of this role is hybrid meaning it will be performed both from home and from a LinkedIn office on select days as determined by the business needs of the team.

About the role

LinkedIn is seeking a Senior Enterprise Engineer specializing in storage and backup solutions with a robust background in automation to contribute to our mission of revolutionizing data protection and storage this capacity you will oversee the architectural design operational management and reliability of enterprise-scale storage and backup systems across hybrid environments including Microsoft Azure. This role requires technical leadership to drive operational excellence through automation and strategic engineering improvements. You will lead critical infrastructure programs and act as a primary technical escalation point for resolving performance and reliability issues to ensure the availability of our global services.

Responsibilities

• Administer maintain and optimize enterprise storage and backup platforms across on-premises and cloud environments.
• Lead troubleshooting and root cause analysis for storage backup recovery and performance-related incidents.
• Plan and execute infrastructure deployments upgrades migrations and technology refresh initiatives.
• Develop automation and operational tooling using Python and PowerShell to improve efficiency consistency and reliability.
• Implement and maintain monitoring reporting capacity planning and performance management processes.
• Design and support high availability disaster recovery replication and data protection solutions.
• Collaborate with cloud virtualization network security and application teams on infrastructure projects and operational initiatives.
• Create and maintain technical documentation operational procedures and architectural standards.
• Provide technical mentorship and guidance to junior engineers.
• Participate in a global on-call rotation and support critical production incidents.

Qualifications :

Basic Qualifications

• 8 years of hands-on experience supporting enterprise storage backup or infrastructure platforms.
• Experience with enterprise storage and data protection technologies in production environments.
• Experience with Microsoft Azure infrastructure services.
• Proficiency in automation and scripting using Python and PowerShell.
• Experience supporting business-critical production environments and participating in on-call rotations.
• Experience with troubleshooting incident management and root cause analysis.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Pure Storage NetApp Nasuni Rubrik Azure Backup or similar enterprise platforms.
• Understanding of SAN NAS object storage snapshots replication disaster recovery and data lifecycle management.
• Knowledge of Fibre Channel iSCSI NFS SMB/CIFS zoning and multipathing.
• Experience supporting VMware Hyper-V or other virtualization platforms.
• Familiarity with infrastructure automation and configuration management tools such as Ansible Terraform Git and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with capacity planning performance optimization operational reporting and infrastructure monitoring.
• Experience leading cross-functional technical investigations and infrastructure initiatives.

Suggested Skills

• Storage systems administration
• Backup and recovery operations
• Python and PowerShell scripting
• Azure infrastructure services
• Incident and problem management

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Employment Type :

Full-time