Jorge Carneiro
Executive Consultant
L3 Senior Storage Operations Engineer
Remote work, Germany
Apply by 14 Jan 2026
€110000 - €130000 per annum
Job Ref.: BH-56338
Job Description
What you’ll do
- Own L3 incident troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and problem management for storage services
- Operate, optimize, and lifecycle-manage enterprise storage platforms
- Drive stability and resilience through automation, monitoring, and runbooks
- Collaborate closely with the platform, Linux, Kubernetes, and network/security teams
- Contribute to change/release processes and compliance within secured environments
Must-have skills
- Solid L3 experience in Storage Operations (production, environments)
- NetApp ONTAP (Clustered/C-mode): admin, troubleshooting, performance, snapshots/replication, quotas, export policies
- One of the following: Ceph (RADOS, RBD, CephFS, CRUSH, pools/PGs, rebalancing, tuning) and/or
- Strong Linux & Kubernetes (Day-2 ops, storage classes/CSI, PV/PVC, troubleshooting I/O & performance)
- Deep incident/problem management (RCA, post-mortems, runbooks)
- Scripting/automation for ops (e.g., Python, Bash, Ansible, REST/ONTAP/CSI where applicable)
- Fluent English (spoken & written)
Eligibility & compliance
- Based in Germany (or willing to relocate)
- German or EU citizenship required due to clearance & contractual constraints
- Existing German security clearance (e.g., Ü2) or clear path/eligibility to obtain it
Nice to have
- SAN/NAS protocols (iSCSI, NFS, SMB), zoning & multipathing
- Performance tuning (latency, throughput, IOPS, caching) and capacity planning
- Observability (Prometheus/Grafana/ELK), backup & DR design/runbooks
- Experience in regulated/sovereign or high-security environments