Storage Automation/ Python Developer - Investment Bank (hybrid)

We are looking for a Storage Automation Developer to design and build scalable, highly available solutions supporting enterprise-wide storage infrastructure. The role combines software development, storage engineering and infrastructure automation, with responsibility for developing tools covering storage provisioning, monitoring, alerting, auditing, inventory, capacity management and preventive maintenance.

What you'll do:

• Design and develop highly available and scalable applications supporting enterprise storage infrastructure.
• Build automation solutions covering storage provisioning, monitoring, alerting, auditing and inventory management.
• Develop internal applications and tooling that integrate with enterprise storage platforms.
• Design tools supporting problem management, preventative maintenance and capacity management.
• Work with third-party vendors to architect and integrate storage technologies and solutions.
• Support storage virtualisation, software-defined storage and distributed / scale-out file systems.
• Develop automation and observability capabilities across large-scale infrastructure environments.
• Troubleshoot complex issues spanning operating systems, networks and storage infrastructure.
• Work closely with internal customers to understand requirements and translate them into appropriate technical solutions.
• Participate in architecture discussions and contribute to technical standards and engineering best practices.

What you'll bring:

• Strong development experience in Python and/or Perl
• Solid understanding of SDLC and software engineering best practices
• Experience with Linux / RHEL environments
• Knowledge of enterprise storage technologies including NFS, CIFS, Fibre Channel, iSCSI, SCSI, RAID, NVMe/SSD and distributed storage
• Strong troubleshooting skills across operating systems, networking and storage
• Experience with storage automation, provisioning, monitoring and capacity management
• Strong technical experience with IBM GPFS / IBM Storage Scale
• Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker or other container platforms
• Azure, AWS or GCP
• SQL and object-oriented programming
• NetApp, HDS, EMC, Brocade or Veritas technologies

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