Solution Architect

Solution Architect - Amsterdam

The solution architect will be responsible for the design and implementation of a highly available and scalable storage platform and its infrastructure which ensures 100% availability for other applications while defining the strategy of the platform and their lifecycle in the direction of business needs in the short and long term.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Responsible for architecture design, implementation, and maintenance of horizontally scalable, highly available, high performance and distributed Software-Defined Storage (SDS) solutions
• Responsible for technology strategy, engineering standards, methodologies, task-plans and best practices for Storage Engineering
• Responsible for complex provisioning, advanced maintenance, data replication, disaster recovery, data migration, and documentation for Storage environments
• Responsible for designing and conducting performance, reliability, and longevity tests of a storage cluster
• Operate in complex, highly-secure, highly-available, operations-centric datacenter environments and interact with other technology domain experts as required, to build and maintain the storage solutions in those datacenter environments
• Write technical design and build documentation for all aspects of storage and backup infrastructure

KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIENCE

• MSc degree level in a relevant area (network-, communications-, software or computer engineering)
• Fluent spoken and written English
• Years of solid hands-on experience on design, development, implementation, test, and operation of open-source or commercial distributed storage solutions ( e.g. CEPH, Swiftstack, minIO, etc.)
• Ability to read the open-source storage codes and make necessary developments aligned with storage solution final design. Past development experience on object storage solutions like CEPH, minIO, etc. are preferable
• Strong understanding of Datacenter consolidation, IaaS, private cloud, virtualization, containerization, assessment, and capacity planning technologies and best practices
• Experience with storage configuration, volume management, and path management software tools (LVM, Native MPIO, EMC PowerPath, etc.)
• Experience with Disaster Recovery as it relates to storage systems and data recovery techniques, including disk replication, snapshots, and disaster recovery best practices
• Expert analysis and troubleshooting skills for the end-to-end storage stack
• Self-motivated and self-managing, with the ability to continually self-monitor and motivate others within a global matrix working environment

Optional

• Good knowledge of storage performance testing tools like cosbench, fio, warp, JMeter, etc. Ability to
• Good knowledge of CNCF projects
• Good knowledge of Media Delivery technologies
• Good knowledge of streaming technologies like HLS, DASH, Smooth streaming
• Storage and ITIL related certifications are preferred
• Experience with C, Python, or Go programming languages

Solution Architect - Amsterdam

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