Storage Engineer - San Diego, CA (Onsite)

Job Title: Storage Engineer

Location: San Diego, CA (Onsite)

Experience: 8+ years

Employment Type: Contract

Job Description

We are seeking an experienced Storage Engineer to design, integrate, validate, and support enterprise storage solutions. This role involves working across storage hardware, firmware, Linux, networking, and manufacturing to deliver reliable, secure, and scalable systems throughout the product lifecycle.

The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on experience in storage engineering, performance analysis, automation, troubleshooting, and root-cause investigation.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, integrate, and validate storage hardware, firmware, software, and management utilities for new products and ongoing releases.
• Configure and test high availability, fault tolerance, failover, recovery, and data protection.
• Benchmark storage performance and analyze throughput, latency, and resource utilization.
• Perform root-cause analysis across storage devices, controllers, firmware, Linux, and network interfaces.
• Develop Python, Bash, or C-based scripts and tools to automate configuration, testing, diagnostics, upgrades, and maintenance.
• Validate storage security configurations, authentication, logging, encryption, and FIPS-related requirements.
• Evaluate backup, replication, and recovery solutions, including on-premises S3-compatible storage.
• Define storage integration, manufacturing, testing, firmware, and deployment procedures.
• Coordinate component qualification, engineering changes, storage releases, and technical documentation.
• Collaborate with engineering teams, storage vendors, manufacturing partners, and field support teams.

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in storage, systems, platform, or infrastructure engineering.
• Experience with storage performance and debugging tools such as fio, iostat, perf, sar, iperf, or sysbench.
• Proficiency in Python, Bash, and/or C programming or scripting.
• Experience with firmware, BIOS, BMC/iDRAC, or large-scale system configuration.
• Familiarity with high-speed networking technologies, including Ethernet and InfiniBand.
• Experience with enterprise storage technologies such as NVMe, RAID, distributed storage, replication, or erasure coding.
• Understanding of rack-level storage integration and data cabling.
• Experience supporting manufacturing, system integration, or factory deployment activities.
• Familiarity with regulatory and EMC considerations for enterprise hardware.
• Strong troubleshooting, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with NetApp and/or Dell enterprise storage technologies.
• NetApp ONTAP administration, including HA pairs, clusters, NFS, S3 access, resiliency testing, and data protection.
• Dell PowerScale and/or PowerFlex administration, performance tuning, resiliency testing, and lifecycle maintenance.
• Experience with storage security, authentication-provider integration, syslog, full-disk encryption, and FIPS-compliant configurations.
• Automation of storage software and firmware upgrades across multiple storage systems.
• Experience working with global OEM/ODM vendors and manufacturing partners.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.