Platform Specialist PLS

Job Summary

Squarepoint is looking for a Platform Storage Specialist to join our growing global team. The candidate will work alongside our team to design build andmaintainenterprise-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 managementautomationand 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 andmaintainhigh-performance storage solutions including NFS GPFS WEKA and object storage platforms

• Perform storage capacity planning forecasting and lifecycle management to ensureoptimalutilizationand cost efficiency

• Monitor storage performance metricsidentifybottlenecks and implement tuning and optimization strategies

• Develop andmaintainautomation tooling for storage provisioning configuration and health monitoring

• Collaborate withcompute 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 StorageFilestore 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

• Deepexpertisewith distributed storage systems and storage protocols (NFS GPFS WEKALustre Ceph or similar)

• Experience with storage performance analysis benchmarking and optimization

• Experience working with configuration management driven administrationusing tools such as Chef or Ansible

• Proficient in Pythonor other high-level language (Go Rust etc.) for automation andtoolingdevelopment

• 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)

• Bachelors Degree in an Engineering discipline or related area

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with object storage systems (CloudianMinIO S3-compatible platforms)

• Familiarity with storage hardware (disk arrays JBODsNVMe/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

The minimum base salary for this role is $100000 if located in New York. This expectation is based on available information at the time of posting. This role may be eligible for discretionary bonuses which could constitute a significant portion of total compensation. This role may also be eligible for benefits such as health dental and other wellness plans as well as 401(k) contributions. Successful candidates compensation and benefits will be determined in consideration of various factors.