Storage Platform SRE Engineer (all humans)
Erste Group Bank AG2 days ago
Bratislava, SlovakiaMid Level
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, operate, and continuously improve enterprise storage solutions and platform capabilities.
- Provide Level 3 technical support for Dell Block Storage, Cisco and Brocade SAN, NetApp NAS, and cloud object storage infrastructure.
- Troubleshoot complex storage incidents, identify root causes, and implement long-term corrective actions.
- Own storage service reliability, availability, performance, scalability, capacity, SLAs, and SLOs.
- Implement monitoring, alerting, and observability for storage health, capacity, performance, and utilization.
- Automate operational activities, provisioning, and configuration using Terraform, Ansible, scripting, or similar technologies.
- Develop standardized and self-service storage capabilities to reduce manual work and operational toil.
- Integrate storage services with VMware vSphere, OpenShift, KVM, and other infrastructure environments.
- Collaborate with database, virtualization, cloud, application, and infrastructure teams on reliable storage solutions.
- Advise the Product Owner, challenge existing approaches, and drive informed technical decisions and engineering standards.
- Evaluate technical debt and emerging technologies, recommending improvements to reliability, efficiency, and scalability.
- Participate in disaster recovery planning, resilience testing, recovery exercises, on-call support, and incident and problem management.
- Define storage standards, best practices, reusable patterns, technical documentation, operational procedures, and runbooks.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of recent, active experience managing enterprise storage environments or similar technologies.
- Strong understanding of SAN, NAS, block storage, object storage, provisioning, replication, performance management, and capacity management.
- Recent hands-on experience troubleshooting complex storage and SAN environments.
- Good understanding of storage integration with VMware vSphere, OpenShift, KVM, virtualization, and container platforms.
- Understanding of backup, replication, disaster recovery, hybrid infrastructure, and cloud-based disaster recovery models.
- Experience with infrastructure automation and configuration management; Terraform and/or Ansible experience is advantageous.
- Recent scripting or programming experience for automation is advantageous.
- Understanding of monitoring and observability concepts and experience with monitoring or logging platforms.
- Understanding of SRE and DevOps principles and willingness to apply them to storage infrastructure.
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, communication, collaboration, ownership, and root-cause analysis skills.
Benefits
- International community of IT professionals and opportunities to participate in interest groups and projects.
- Employer contribution toward above-standard medical examinations, a health helpline, and salary compensation during sick leave.
- Sabbatical, paternity leave, marriage and childbirth contribution, four additional holiday days per year, third-pillar contribution, and MultiSport card.
- Employee Referral Program with rewards for successful referrals.
- Full-time position with a minimum quoted salary of EUR 2,900 gross per month; actual salary depends on qualifications and experience.
- Equal-opportunity workplace committed to diversity and inclusion.