Storage and Datacenter Team Manager

Responsibilities

• Lead a small team of storage, database, and systems administrators with duties including mentorship, performance management, and career development
• Coordinate datacenter operations across production and research facilities, including scheduling site work and managing vendor/contractor visits
• Align team priorities with organizational goals and ensure timely delivery of projects
• Coordinate on-call schedules and ensure effective incident response processes are in place
• Architect, implement, and maintain highly available and performant storage systems
• Define and drive automation strategies for storage deployment and monitoring
• Oversee storage lifecycle management including capacity planning, performance tuning, and data protection strategies such as archiving and backups for large-scale datasets
• Provide architectural guidance and hands-on support for Ceph at PB scale
• Oversee physical datacenter infrastructure including rack layout planning, power distribution, cooling systems, and capacity forecasting for space, power, and cooling
• Manage equipment installation and decommissioning
• Collaborate closely with networking, virtualization, research, and application teams to support diverse compute and storage needs
• Participate in and improve CI/CD and configuration management processes with tools like Ansible and Git
• Serve as an escalation point for advanced troubleshooting of distributed filesystems, databases, and high-performance storage infrastructure
• Hands-on administration of Linux servers, network-attached storage, virtualization platforms, and cluster frameworks
• Install, cabling, and troubleshooting of physical server, storage, and network hardware in rack environments
• Diagnose and resolve hardware-level issues impacting production systems
• Support and enhance observability using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and others
• Develop and maintain runbooks for remote-hands work and coordinate with contractors and facility personnel to perform onsite operations

Requirements

• 5+ years of Linux Systems Administration experience with significant recent focus on storage systems
• 2+ years of team leadership, technical project management, or mentoring experience
• Knowledge of distributed storage systems such as Ceph and storage technologies including RAID, SAN, and NAS
• Hands-on experience with co-located data center infrastructure
• Ability to travel to remote datacenter sites when needed
• Strong scripting/development experience in Bash and/or Python
• Experience with configuration management tools (Ansible) and infrastructure automation
• Familiarity with monitoring and alerting systems (Nagios/CheckMK, Prometheus, Grafana)
• Understanding of virtualization (KVM, ESXi) and containerization (Docker, Podman)
• Knowledge of LDAP/IPA/AD and centralized identity management

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Kubernetes container orchestration
• PostgreSQL DBA experience
• Experience in a high-throughput research or trading environment
• Exposure to RHEL/CentOS/Rocky Linux in enterprise settings
• Experience with DCIM tools for tracking assets, power, and space
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps principles
• Experience managing colocation vendor relationships and SLAs