Storage Engineer

at  Susquehanna International Group

SIG is a global quantitative trading firm founded by a group of friends who share a passion for game theory and probabilistic thinking. We have incorporated this approach into our culture, where you will find relentless problem solvers within each of our core disciplines: Trading, Technology, and Quantitative Research. From offices around the world, our employees collaborate to make optimal decisions and are driven by the desire to achieve winning results together.
What we do
We are experts in trading essentially all listed financial products and asset classes, with a focus on derivatives trading. Through market making and market taking, we handle millions of trading transactions around the world every day, providing liquidity and ensuring competitive prices for buyers and sellers. While our presence in the market is broad, our trading desks are highly specialised, allowing for a deep understanding of unique drivers of each asset class.
What you’ll do
We are recruiting for a Storage Engineer to join Windows Virtual and Storage Team in our stunning top floor office in Sydey, Barangaroo. As a part of expanding the Windows team, the successful candidate will contribute to delivering technology solutions to our Production Enterprise Storage Infrastructure, specifically being tasked with the deployment and management our Storage, Backup and Data Governance environment.

In this role, you will provide support for our existing modern technology stack as well as work on cutting edge projects designing and deploying our expanding enterprise storage environment across APAC. You will work with storage solutions across a multi-vendor environment running technologies from Pure Storage, VAST, NetApp and CommVault. Additionally, you will keep abreast of emerging trends and work with multi-disciplinary teams across the globe with experts from US, Europe and APAC to ensure SIG’s storage environment meets both current and future business needs.

• Manage and support SIG’s enterprise storage and backup infrastructure including tape libraries, disk libraries and backup software
• Perform resolution and root cause analysis of storage-related issues in collaboration with other teams
• Act as a “go-to” person for storage questions, create and maintain knowledge base, work and share knowledge with other teams.
• Design, deploy and perform capacity management of NAS and SAN devices in SIG’s enterprise environment
• Automate daily tasks and operations across multiple storage platforms using our modern CI/CD tools such as Gitlab, TeamCity, Octopus Deploy or Ansible as required
• Go hands-on with all the fantastic tech we have by visiting and performing occasional physical work in the datacenters
• Monitor and perform proactive diagnosis of systems health and performance using the right tool from our broad monitoring stack
• Through analysis of resource allocations, provide proactive reporting of Storage and Backup resource utilisation and recommend changes to ensure business continuity.
• Be expected to occasionally complete required changes during non-business hours with generous time-in-lieu arrangement

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR

• Graduate Degree in Computer Science or equivalent industry experience
• Minimum 2 years of experience working in hands-on enterprise storage and backup administration role
• Experience with storage integration in Windows or Linux in enterprise environments or Hypervisor technologies such as VMware
• Proficiency in Commvault or similar with backup management and configuration experience
• Demonstrate understanding of foundational systems engineering concepts, such as TCP/IP, DNS, operating system theory, distributed computing concepts, ACL, SMB, CIFS, NFS, FC, RAID, replication, zoning, HA, FT, storage architectures
• Familiarity with monitoring tools such as Checkmk, ELK, Grafana, Prometheus or similar

Desired Skills & Experience

• Automation and Scripting skills are advantageous for this role, including PowerShell or Python
• Practical experience with REST APIs and knowledge of automation tools such as Octopus Deploy or Ansible is also helpful.
• Integration experience with database technology such as Oracle is beneficial.
• Systems Administration level knowledge of one or more the following would be a bonus: Brocade Fabric OS, VAST, GPFS, VSAN, NetApp ONTAP, Pure, Windows and Linux Servers

Personal Skills

• Strong verbal and written communication – ability to convey technically complex subjects in a clear and concise manner
• Initiative – proven record of seeking continuous improvement and implementing best practice with ITIL in mind
• Interpersonal – friendly and approachable, ability to build connections across the teams.
• Time management, organisation and prioritisation to effectively work on projects and BAU
• Attention to detail
• Self-starter – identify problems and propose solutions
• Ability to learn new skills – strong desire to learn new technologies and concepts is required

What’s in it for you

• Our flat hierarchy enables you to drive meaningful impact, by leveraging your expertise and taking ownership
• Private healthcare and gym allowances, plus wellness initiatives.
• Additional leave entitlements including marriage leave and 2 bonus days annually.
• Fully stocked kitchen - daily breakfast and lunch.
• Regular social, sporting and community events including annual poker tournament.
• Matched donations and corporate discounts.
• Explore our benefits and culture: link

Equal Opportunity Statement
We encourage applications from candidates from all backgrounds, and we welcome requests for reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process to ensure that you can best demonstrate your abilities

• Manage and support SIG’s enterprise storage and backup infrastructure including tape libraries, disk libraries and backup software
• Perform resolution and root cause analysis of storage-related issues in collaboration with other teams
• Act as a “go-to” person for storage questions, create and maintain knowledge base, work and share knowledge with other teams.
• Design, deploy and perform capacity management of NAS and SAN devices in SIG’s enterprise environment
• Automate daily tasks and operations across multiple storage platforms using our modern CI/CD tools such as Gitlab, TeamCity, Octopus Deploy or Ansible as required
• Go hands-on with all the fantastic tech we have by visiting and performing occasional physical work in the datacenters
• Monitor and perform proactive diagnosis of systems health and performance using the right tool from our broad monitoring stack
• Through analysis of resource allocations, provide proactive reporting of Storage and Backup resource utilisation and recommend changes to ensure business continuity.
• Be expected to occasionally complete required changes during non-business hours with generous time-in-lieu arrangemen