Description :

Role : Storage Engineer and Workflow Automation Engineer - BLR

Location: Bengaluru, India

Team : Storage Platform Engineer

Role Summary :

We are looking to hire a storage expert who knows the pros and cons of different types of storage based on performance, use cases, and cost efficiency. This person will act as an architect to offer design suggestions from a storage perspective and will automate existing manual workflows.

You will need:

- Deep knowledge of enterprise storage and experience in a storage architect role.

- Strong hands-on experience understanding data centre architecture and infrastructure.

- Proficient in Python and shell scripting, able to automate workflows and contribute to the code base.

- Able to address support cases and interrupts. Must respond to incidents during US off-hours.

- Familiar with working tools such as Slack, Jira, Google Workspace, ChatGPT, Claude, and others. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys combining storage integration with software development to remove toil and scale infrastructure, and help with storage architecture design.

What You Will Do :

Design, architect, and lead the storage design based on compute and workload needs :

- Help customer teams choose the right model, size, capacity, and other specifications based on stakeholder needs and use cases.

- Use software methods to solve existing toil and manual tasks, and automate the workflow.

- Deploy the storage remotely by using scripts and internal tools. - Troubleshoot storage issues or script failures.

- Manage interrupts and lead incident response during critical incidents.

Build automation and tools in Python and shell scripting :

- Develop Python based tools and automation to support self service workflows

- Automate repetitive operational tasks and improve the existing deployment script efficiency - Integrate with internal and external APIs to orchestrate infrastructure workflows (compute, storage, network)

Configuration Management, Infrastructure, and Monitoring as Code :

- Use tools such as Ansible, Terraform, Puppet, or similar tools to manage infrastructure declaratively.

- Maintain reusable playbooks/modules and templates for common infrastructure patterns

- Enforce configuration standards, security baselines, and repeatable deployments across environments

Monitoring, observability, and reliability :

- Implement and improve monitoring, alerting, and dashboards for infrastructure health (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/Nagios, or similar tools)

- Define and track key metrics (availability, latency, capacity, error rates), and drive improvements based on data

- Participate in incident response, perform root cause analysis, and implement long?term fixes and runbooks

- Maintain the observability codebase and actively develop new monitors and alerts.

Collaboration and support :

- Partner with engineering teams to understand their infrastructure needs and design appropriate solutions from a storage perspective.

- Guide best practices for using infrastructure platforms (VMs, containers, storage, networking)

- Participate in an on?call rotation and planned maintenance windows as needed.

Minimum Qualifications :

- 5+ years of experience in Infrastructure/Storage Engineer or SRE/DevOps engineering roles supporting enterprise storage organisations or teams, knowledge of Ever pure products would be a plus.

- 3+ years of hands?on Python development for :

- Automation scripts and tools

- REST API integrations

- Data collection, reporting, and operational tooling

- Experience with at least one configuration management or IaC tool (e.g., Ansible, Terraform, Puppet, Chef)

- Strong Linux systems administration knowledge (e.g., Ubuntu, CentOS/RHEL)

- Solid understanding of networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, VLANs, routing basics) - Experience with office tools such as Jira, Slack, Google Workspace, and others.

- Knowledge of monitoring and alerting on key storage metrics.

- Strong problem's olving skills, ownership mindset, and clear written and verbal communication skills

Preferred Qualifications :

- Familiarity with storage platforms (SAN/NAS), ideally all?flash arrays and/or object storage

- Knowledge of Pure Storage products FA and FB is a plus.

- Strong knowledge of on-premises infrastructure and architecture.

- SRE/DevOps knowledge, monitoring and alerting philosophy, and Incident Commander system knowledge.

- Exposure to CI/CD tooling and pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, GitLab CI)

- Experience in globally distributed teams and follow the sun support models is a plus