Serve as the technical lead and owner for the on-prem MinIO storage and Alluxio (caching) platform.
Lead architecture, implementation, and lifecycle management of the on-prem storage and data infrastructure.
Manage and optimize on-prem hardware, including: Physical servers, NVMe storage, GPUs.
Partner with networking team to design and manage networking components for the platform.
Lead and support automation and infrastructure tooling, including: Python, Ansible, Shell scripting, Terraform.
Support and integrate data and analytics platforms.
Implement and maintain monitoring, logging, and observability solutions.
Define SLOs/SLIs/error budgets for storage and data services; lead incident response and root-cause analysis.
Mentor engineers, review designs, and set technical standards and best practices.

Strong experience as a Tech Lead / Senior Platform Engineer / Storage Engineer
Deep expertise in Linux systems administration
Hands-on experience with on-prem storage platforms, especially MinIO
Strong understanding of: Physical servers, NVMe storage, GPUs, Networking concepts (TCP/IP, DNS, routing, proxies, load balancers, switches)
Proficiency in automation and scripting: Python, Ansible, Shell scripting
Experience with data platforms: Alluxio, Spark / Spark SQL, MySQL, Hive Metastore
Strong experience with observability and logging stacks
Experience managing infrastructure using Terraform
Familiarity with HashiCorp Vault for secrets management
Strong troubleshooting, debugging, and performance optimization skills
Excellent communication skills and ability to lead technical discussions.

Technical Lead, On-Prem Storage & Compute Platform

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