Storage and Datacenter Team Lead

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in California, +1 more state.

📋 Description

• Lead a small team of storage, database, and systems administrators, including providing mentorship, managing performance, and fostering career development.

• Coordinate datacenter operations across both production and research facilities.

• Align the team’s priorities with the organization’s goals to ensure timely delivery of projects.

• Participate in hiring processes and manage on-call schedules along with incident response.

• Architect, implement, and maintain highly available and high-performance storage systems.

• Define automation strategies for the deployment and monitoring of storage solutions.

• Oversee capacity planning, performance tuning, archiving, backups, and data protection for large-scale datasets.

• Provide architectural guidance and hands-on support for Ceph at petabyte scale.

• Manage physical datacenter infrastructure, including equipment installation and decommissioning.

• Collaborate effectively with networking, virtualization, research, and application teams.

• Enhance CI/CD and configuration management processes.

• Support database operations through performance tuning and storage optimization.

• Develop runbooks and coordinate remote-hands and onsite operations.

• Troubleshoot distributed filesystems, databases, Linux servers, storage infrastructure, and physical hardware.

• Enhance observability using monitoring tools.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of experience in Linux Systems Administration with a significant recent focus on storage systems.

• At least 2 years of experience in team leadership, technical project management, or mentoring.

• Knowledge of distributed storage systems such as Ceph, along with technologies like RAID, SAN, and NAS.

• Experience in archiving, backup, and retention of petabyte-scale data.

• Hands-on experience with co-located datacenter infrastructure.

• Ability to travel to remote datacenter sites as necessary.

• Strong scripting or development experience in Bash and/or Python.

• Familiarity with Ansible and infrastructure automation.

• Experience with monitoring tools such as Nagios/CheckMK, Prometheus, and Grafana.

• Understanding of KVM, ESXi, Docker, and Podman.

• Knowledge of LDAP/IPA/AD and centralized identity management.

• Preferred qualifications include experience with Kubernetes, PostgreSQL DBA, high-throughput research or trading environments, RHEL/CentOS/Rocky Linux, DCIM tools, CI/CD and DevOps, and colocation vendor relationships and SLAs.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus compensation offered.

• Medical coverage.

• Dental coverage.

• Vision coverage.

• Life and AD&D insurance.

• 20 days of paid time off.

• 9 sick days.

• 401(k) plan with company match.

• Potential $7,500 referral bonus for a successfully hired and employed referred candidate.