Platform Specialist - PLS (Storage)

Location: Montreal, London, New York, Bangalore, or Singapore

Salary: Minimum base salary of $100,000 annually for candidates located in New York; discretionary bonuses and benefits may also apply.

Company

hirify.global operates a growing global technology infrastructure team supporting enterprise-scale storage services.

What you will do

• Design, deploy, and manage distributed storage systems at scale using standardization, automation, testing, and monitoring.
• Architect and maintain high-performance NFS, GPFS, WEKA, and object storage platforms.
• Plan storage capacity, forecast demand, manage data lifecycles, and optimize utilization and cost.
• Analyze storage performance, identify bottlenecks, and implement tuning and optimization strategies.
• Develop automation tooling for provisioning, configuration, health monitoring, observability, and alerting.
• Collaborate with compute, networking, and application teams while maintaining documentation, incident response processes, data integrity, availability, and disaster recovery readiness.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in technology infrastructure, with a strong focus on storage and Linux administration.
• Deep expertise in distributed storage systems and protocols such as NFS, GPFS, WEKA, Lustre, or Ceph.
• Experience with storage performance analysis, benchmarking, optimization, capacity management, and cloud storage across AWS and GCP.
• Experience with Chef or Ansible, version control, agile development, CI/CD, and observability tools such as Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Datadog, Prometheus, or Grafana.
• Proficiency in Python or another high-level language such as Go or Rust for automation and tooling.
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or a related discipline, along with strong written and verbal communication skills.

Nice to have

• Experience with object storage systems such as Cloudian, MinIO, or S3-compatible platforms.
• Familiarity with disk arrays, JBODs, NVMe/SSD technologies, HBAs, and storage networking.
• Experience with backup, replication, disaster recovery, storage tiering, and data lifecycle policies.
• Knowledge of high-performance computing storage workloads and patterns.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced and adaptable environment and continuously learn new storage technologies.

Culture & Benefits

• Work with a global infrastructure team supporting continuously scaling storage services.
• Health, dental, and other wellness plans may be available.
• 401(k) contributions may be available.
• Discretionary bonuses may form a significant part of total compensation.