Senior System Administrator II (Ceph Engineer)

Adyen provides payments, data, and financial products in a single solution for customers like Meta, Uber, H&M, and Microsoft—making us the financial technology platform of choice. At Adyen, everything we do is engineered for ambition. We create an environment with opportunities for our people to succeed, backed by the culture and support to ensure they are enabled to truly own their careers. We are motivated individuals who tackle unique technical challenges at scale and solve them as a team. Together, we deliver innovative and ethical solutions that help businesses achieve their ambitions faster.

About the role

This team is part of our Platform Engineering team in Chicago or San Francisco. The purpose of Platform Engineering is to enable Adyen engineers to autonomously build and support secure, scalable, and reliable applications with high speed and quality through a common technology ecosystem.

As a storage engineer on our Storage team, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, managing, and maintaining data storage systems and solutions. This role involves end-to-end management of our organization's data storage infrastructure, including strategic design for scalability, hands-on implementation and integration, continuous performance monitoring, capacity planning, security, and troubleshooting. It also requires proactive maintenance with updates, backups, disaster recovery, and planning for future growth by evaluating and recommending new technologies for data availability, reliability, and efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Design and deploy storage infrastructure (SAN, NAS, DAS, Object Storage) in accordance with organizational needs.
• Monitor and maintain storage systems to guarantee optimal performance, availability, and reliability.
• Perform capacity planning and forecasting for future storage needs.
• Develop and implement strategies for backup, replication, and disaster recovery.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to storage systems.
• Maintain documentation of configurations, procedures, and standards.
• Collaborate with other Platform Engineering teams on system upgrades, migrations, and integrations.
• Automate storage provisioning and management using scripting or infrastructure-as-code tools.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in Linux systems administration with a focus on storage (e.g., Ceph) (MANDATE)
• Proven experience with enterprise storage systems (e.g., Purestorage, NetApp, EMC, Dell, IBM, Hitachi) (MANDATE)
• Strong understanding of RAID, LVM, NFS, iSCSI, multipathing, and file systems (ext4, XFS, ZFS, etc.) (MANDATE)
• Hands-on experience with enterprise storage systems and clustering technologies
• Proficiency in shell scripting; Python, Puppet, or Ansible knowledge
• Experience with virtualization technologies such as VMware or KVM
• Familiarity with cloud storage solutions like AWS S3 and EBS
• Experience with monitoring tools (Nagios, Prometheus, Zabbix, etc.)

Location

This role is based out of our San Francisco or Chicago office. We are an office-first company and value in-person collaboration; we do not offer remote-only roles.