Storage Engineer

Overview

Our storage team use cutting-edge technology to make data available and deliverable, while managing a multi-petabyte enterprise storage environment 

In this role: 

You will take ownership of the technology solutions for our Production Enterprise Storage Infrastructure. Specifically, being tasked with the deployment and management of our Storage, Backup and Data Governance environment.  

Monitoring, troubleshoot and initiate corrective action across our multi-petabyte enterprise storage environment. You will manage and optimize storage solutions across a multi-vendor environment running technologies from Pure Storage, NetApp, VAST and CommVault. Additionally, you will be up to date with emerging technologies whilst working with multi-disciplinary teams to ensure Susquehanna’s storage environment meets both current and future business needs. 

Your expertise will allow you to enable other business units to meet their storage requirements in new jurisdictions in the APAC region.   

• Deploy, administer and support network attached storage (NAS) devices in Susquehanna’s enterprise infrastructure. 

• Deploy, administer and support Susquehanna’s enterprise backup infrastructure (tape libraries, disk libraries and backup software) 

• Creation and maintenance of supporting documentation and knowledge transfer to other team members. 

• Automation of daily tasks and operations across multiple storage platforms. 

• Monitoring, reporting and proactive diagnosis of systems health and performance 

• Participate in general areas of system administration within the Compute and Storage Platforms team 

What you can expect from us

Real Impact: By integrating sophisticated coding techniques with innovative engineering ideas, we design and optimize systems that can process massive amounts of data while still ensuring high performance and stability. You’ll see how your contributions towards developing and supporting leading-edge hardware and software technologies make a firm-wide impact that makes us all smarter, faster, and better.

Collaboration: You will partner closely with our Infrastructure, Project Management and Strategy Developer Teams to deliver and manage scalable and highly performant systems to support trading in the region and globally.

Growth: For many of our roles, we don’t expect you to have prior industry experience in proprietary trading or financial services to succeed at Susquehanna. We’re looking for people who are naturally curious, relentless problem solvers, and have the desire to continuously innovate, learn, and grow.

Benefits: Susquehanna offers a wide array of competitive employee perks & benefits

What we’re looking for

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience working in a NAS storage and Backup administration role. 

• Linux & Windows administration skills in enterprise environments and experience with storage integration and support with both Operating Systems. 

• Candidate must demonstrate understanding of foundation systems engineering concepts, such as TCP/IP, operating system theory, distributed computing concepts (i.e. DNS, NFS), web based application architectures and traditional application architectures. 

• Storage integration experience with Hypervisors technologies such as VMware, Citrix Xen and Hyper-V 

• Proficiency in Commvault – backup / archive management and configuration 

• Systems Administration level knowledge of Active Directory, DHCP, DNS and Group Policy. 

• Automation and Scripting skills are highly advantageous for this role, knowledge of automation tools such as Ansible is also preferred. 

• Knowledge and experience with relational and conventional database technology MySQL, SQL server and Oracle experience 

• In a technical discipline or equivalent industry experience. 

Personal Attributes 

• Taking Initiative 

• Thrive under pressure 

• Self-motivated and creative 

• Strong communicator, Interpersonal 

• Detail Oriented 

• Team Skills 

• Effective time manager 

• Flexibility – due to the critical nature of the systems involved, some degree of after hour and weekend maintenance is required. 

• Willingness for continued Learning 

About Susquehanna

Susquehanna is a global quantitative trading firm founded by a group of friends who share a passion for game theory and probabilistic thinking. We have incorporated this approach into our culture, where you will find relentless problem solvers within each of our core disciplines: Trading, Technology, and Quantitative Research. From offices around the world, our employees collaborate to make optimal decisions and are driven by the desire to achieve winning results together. 

What we do

We are experts in trading essentially all listed financial products and asset classes, with a focus on derivatives trading. Through market making and market taking, we handle millions of trading transactions around the world every day, providing liquidity and ensuring competitive prices for buyers and sellers. While our presence in the market is broad, our trading desks are highly specialised, allowing for a deep understanding of unique drivers of each asset class.

Equal Opportunity Statement

We encourage applications from candidates from all backgrounds, and we welcome requests for reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process to ensure that you can best demonstrate your abilities.

If you're a recruiting agency and want to partner with us, please reach out to [email protected]. Any resume or referral submitted in the absence of a signed agreement will not be eligible for an agency fee.

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