Senior Storage Engineer (Hybrid)

We’re the world’s leading provider of secure financial messaging services, headquartered in Belgium. We enable the global economy by providing a reliable, safe, and secure way to move value across borders. With a presence in 200+ countries and serving over 12,000 financial institutions, we innovate diligently to maintain trust in an ever-changing landscape. Swift does not sponsor employment authorization for this position.

About the role

This role is responsible for developing, maintaining, and improving automation, tooling, integrations, and operational capabilities that support reliable infrastructure services. The ideal candidate has a foundation in software development, scripting, Linux, APIs, CI/CD, troubleshooting, and DevOps practices, with an interest in building practical tools to improve service delivery, monitoring, reporting, and operational efficiency. Prior storage experience, including object storage, SAN, Cloudian HyperStore, or related technologies, is helpful but not required.

You will work as part of the Storage squad within the Platform Tribe, collaborating with senior engineers, application teams, security, and operations teams to build automation and tooling that supports reliable, secure, and scalable infrastructure services. This role is well-suited for someone who enjoys coding, problem-solving, improving manual processes, and learning enterprise infrastructure through development-focused work.

About the team

The Storage squad is part of the Platform Tribe. We deliver and operate VMware and storage infrastructure for Swift’s critical applications, with a strong focus on automation, tooling, integrations, and operational efficiency. We embrace Agile principles and the Scrum framework to enhance productivity, transparency, and adaptability. Our processes are highly automated, prioritizing security, scalability, and operability.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain scripts, utilities, and automation workflows that reduce manual effort and improve infrastructure service delivery
• Build and enhance internal tools, dashboards, reports, and self-service capabilities to support operations, monitoring, provisioning, and incident response
• Work with senior engineers to understand infrastructure platforms and translate operational needs into practical automation and tooling solutions
• Create integrations using APIs, command-line tools, web services, and automation interfaces to improve administration and service delivery
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, source control practices, testing, code reviews, and deployment processes for automation and internal tooling
• Help troubleshoot issues across automation workflows, Linux systems, APIs, networking, DNS, monitoring, and related infrastructure services
• Automate routine operational tasks such as provisioning, health checks, reporting, validation, maintenance, and compliance evidence collection
• Develop reusable code, templates, playbooks, or modules that support repeatable and consistent infrastructure operations
• Support monitoring and observability improvements by contributing to alerts, metrics, log collection, dashboards, and reporting automation
• Collaborate with infrastructure, application, security, and operations teams to understand requirements and deliver automation that improves reliability, security, and operational efficiency
• Apply secure coding and operational practices, including access control, secrets handling, auditability, error handling, and documentation
• Create and maintain technical documentation, developer notes, standard operating procedures, and runbooks for automation, tools, and platform support
• Participate in production support and on-call activities, using development and troubleshooting skills to assist with service restoration and incident follow-up
• Identify manual or repetitive operational activities and propose automation, workflow, or tooling improvements
• Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement initiatives by improving automation, observability, and operational tooling

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent hands-on development, scripting, automation, or infrastructure tooling experience)
• Foundational software development or scripting experience using Python, Bash, PowerShell, Go, JavaScript, or a similar language (preferably 3-6 years)
• Basic understanding of Linux, networking, DNS, APIs, and infrastructure support concepts
• Experience creating scripts, automation workflows, or small tools to solve operational or technical problems
• Familiarity with Git, source control practices, CI/CD concepts, testing, and code review processes
• Ability to read documentation, understand requirements, and translate operational needs into clear technical solutions
• Strong problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and willingness to learn infrastructure platforms through development-focused work
• Good written and verbal communication skills, including technical documentation, status updates, and operational reporting
• Interest in improving operational efficiency through automation, tooling, integration, and continuous improvement

Preferred Qualifications

• Exposure to Cloudian HyperStore or another enterprise object storage platform
• Familiarity with S3-compatible storage concepts, including buckets, policies, replication, lifecycle management, and access control
• Exposure to enterprise block storage, SAN fabrics, Brocade switches, HDS, HPE XP, or similar storage platforms
• Experience with infrastructure automation and configuration management tools such as Ansible, Terraform, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or Azure DevOps
• Experience developing REST API integrations, command-line tools, internal web tools, dashboards, or reporting automation
• Familiarity with containers, Kubernetes, configuration management, observability platforms, or infrastructure-as-code practices
• Knowledge of secure development practices, secrets management, auditability, compliance evidence collection, and operational controls
• Exposure to multi-site or multi-region storage deployments and disaster recovery concepts
• Experience creating internal admin tools, reporting dashboards, operational scripts, or automation frameworks to improve platform support
• Python, Linux, DevOps, cloud, or CI/CD certifications
• Cloudian Certified Administrator (CCA), Cloudian Certified Engineer (CCE), or storage-related certifications

Pay

The estimated salary range for this position in Virginia is $101,303.00 USD Annual MINIMUM to $188,135.00 USD Annual MAXIMUM. Salary may vary depending on knowledge, skills, experience, and location.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary and bonus opportunity contingent on personal and company performance
• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance with no premium costs for employees and their families
• Retirement plan with 401k matching

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