Lead Engineer - Storage & Data Protection

About Us

The Opportunity

Key Responsibilities

• Co-design, implement and manage PBs-scale block, file, and object storage solutions as core components of Cloud and HPC environments.
• Lead the implementation and lifecycle management of storage and backup services across production and non-production environments.
• Collaborate with architecture and platform engineering teams on technology evaluation, selection, integration, and solution design.
• Support the execution of storage roadmaps, standards, and service improvements across the organization.
• Lead capacity planning activities to ensure storage platforms meet current and future demand.
• Improve storage platform reliability by identifying failure points, strengthening high availability, and reducing operational risk.
• Analyze and implement performance optimization strategies to improve storage efficiency, throughput, latency, and resource utilization.
• Evaluate and integrate advanced storage technologies, including software-defined storage, clustered file systems, and object storage platforms.
• Define and execute disaster recovery and data protection strategies, ensuring data integrity, availability and recoverability.
• Design and enhance storage observability, logging, and monitoring capabilities in collaboration with observability, platforms and operations teams.
• Provide level 3 expert support, including on-call support, root cause analysis, complex troubleshooting, and escalation management with vendor support.
• Lead and mentor storage engineers, ensuring technical quality, execution discipline, and knowledge sharing.
• Collaborate with security teams to ensure storage and backup platforms are secure, hardened, and compliant with cybersecurity requirements.
• Create and maintain documentation, including implementation guides, operational procedures, diagrams, and knowledge base articles.
• Work with process and operations teams to improve support models, operational workflows, and collaboration efficiency.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science, engineering, software engineering or related technology discipline.
• 7+ years of hands-on experience designing, implementing, and managing large-scale storage and data protection platforms.
• 2+ years of experience leading a team of 3+ engineers, with accountability for technical quality and timely delivery.
• Strong hands-on experience with software-defined storage solutions across block, file, and object storage services.
• Deep expertise with storage platforms from vendors such as HPE, Dell, NetApp, Hitachi, IBM, Pure Storage, or VAST DATA.
• Strong knowledge of storage protocols and interfaces such as iSCSI, S3, NFS, NVMe/TCP, and related technologies.
• Proficiency in Linux administration, Linux kernel concepts, and storage stack troubleshooting.
• Advanced experience with object storage platforms such as Red Hat Ceph, Scality, MinIO, Cloudian, Qumulo S3, and Dell ECS.
• Experience with cloud-native backup and DR solutions for OpenStack, such as Trilio, Hystax, Rubrik, or Zerto, is highly desirable.
• Experience designing or managing clustered and parallel file systems such as Lustre, GPFS, or similar platforms is highly desirable.
• Familiarity with container platforms such as OpenShift, Kubernetes, and Docker, including container storage concepts such as CSI and PVC.
• Experience integrating identity, access management, and authorization solutions such as PKI, LDAP, OAuth, OpenID Connect.
• Strong knowledge of backup systems, disaster recovery principles, data protection strategies, RPO/RTO and recovery validation.
• Familiarity with load balancing technologies for object storage and highly available storage services.
• Strong knowledge of encryption, hardening, security controls, and compliance requirements for storage and backup platforms.
• Solid understanding of data center networking concepts and technologies, including the OSI model, TCP/IP, firewalls, routing, VLAN/VXLAN and related protocols.
• Hands-on experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Zabbix, Nagios, Prometheus, Grafana, and the ELK Stack.
• Understanding of CI/CD principles, Infrastructure as Code, and software-defined infrastructure practices.
• Advanced scripting or programming skills using Python, Go, Bash, or similar languages.
• What working at Core42 offers
• With a diverse team of 1,100+ employees from 68 nationalities, we foster an inclusive, innovative and collaborative environment.
• At Core42, we foster a culture grounded in trust, accountability and high performance.
• We are united by our values: Grit, where we overcome challenges with resilience and determination, Passion, which drives us to pursue excellence in everything we do, and Impact, as we aim to inspire progress and create meaningful change.
• Our team members thrive in an environment where each person’s contributions propel us forward, and together, we commit to achieving extraordinary results.
• Competitive Salary: We offer an attractive salary package based on your skills and experience
• Yearly Bonus: In recognition of your contributions, you will receive a performance-based annual bonus
• Exclusive Discount Cards: Access special benefits with Esaad and Fazaa cards, offering discounts across a wide range of services
• Premium Family Insurance: We provide comprehensive health coverage, including dental, vision and life insurance, ensuring the well-being of you and your family
• Learning & Development: We offer access to top-tier learning platforms to help you grow in your career. Learn at your own pace with unlimited access to premium courses