Storage/Linux Engineer Architect - Chicago

Senior Storage/ Data Architect - Finance -Chicago

I am looking for a Senior storage engineer (vendor-agnostic) that has worked across multiple areas of IT - infrastructure, databases, and development. As a Storage engineer, you will be the link between the Linux server team and how they interface with the DBA's.

Responsibilities:

- optimizing file systems
- ensuring properly running of file systems
- improving and testing performance/ scalability
- building and installing monitoring tools (such as Nagios)

Your profile:

- BSc (must)
- A minimum of years working experience as a storage engineer (SAN, NAS, etc), not industry-specific, nor vendor-specific
- Strong Linux knowledge (Ubuntu, RedHat, Fedora, etc)
- Strong DB knowledge (Sybase, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Cassandra, Riak, MongoDB)
- Experience designing distributed filesystems (HDFS, Gluster, etc)
- Scripting in Perl, Python, Bash, and/or Shell
- Ability to work in a high-pressure environment

On offer:

You will be the second Storage engineer/architect within the organization - working on an infrastructure team of 10 highly ambitious, skilled, and innovative individuals in a state of the art technical environment. You will have the chance to build/design your own solutions and make a direct impact on the organization.

Compensation:

Up to 150k on the base plus outstanding bonus potential (up to 30%)

Send your resume in Word format to the attention of Claire Zee.
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