Senior System Administrator II (Ceph Engineer)

Adyen • Chicago, IL

3d • Onsite

About The Position

This role is part of Adyen's Platform Engineering team, located in Chicago or San Francisco. The Platform Engineering team's mission is to empower Adyen engineers to independently build and support secure, scalable, and reliable applications with high speed and quality through a common technology ecosystem. As a storage engineer on the Storage team, you will be responsible for the end-to-end management of the organization's data storage infrastructure. This includes strategic design for scalability, hands-on implementation and integration, continuous performance monitoring, capacity planning, security, and troubleshooting. The role also requires proactive maintenance, including updates, backups, disaster recovery, and planning for future growth by evaluating and recommending new technologies for data availability, reliability, and efficiency.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in Linux systems administration with a focus on storage (e.g., Ceph)
• Proven experience with enterprise storage systems (e.g., Purestorage, NetApp, EMC, Dell, IBM, Hitachi)
• Strong understanding of RAID, LVM, NFS, iSCSI, multipathing, and file systems (ext4, XFS, ZFS, etc.)
• Hands-on experience with enterprise storage systems and clustering technologies
• Proficiency in shell scripting
• Python, Puppet or Ansible knowledge
• Experience with virtualization technologies such as VMware or KVM
• Familiarity with cloud storage solutions like AWS S3 and EBS
• Experience with monitoring tools (Nagios, Prometheus, Zabbix, etc.)

Responsibilities

• Design and deploy storage infrastructure (SAN, NAS, DAS, Object Storage) in accordance with organizational needs.
• Monitor and maintain storage systems to guarantee optimal performance, availability, and reliability.
• Perform capacity planning and forecasting for future storage needs.
• Develop and implement strategies for backup, replication, and disaster recovery.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to storage systems.
• Maintain documentation of configurations, procedures, and standards.
• Collaborate with other Platform Engineering teams on system upgrades, migrations, and integrations.
• Automate storage provisioning and management using scripting or infrastructure-as-code tools.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed