Senior Storage Engineer

Recruiter:

Six Sense Consulting

Job Ref:

SSC001086/MS

Date posted:

Wednesday, February 11, 2026

Location:

Cape Town, South Africa

Salary:

Annually

SUMMARY:
A well-established business is seeking to appoint a Senior Storage Engineer.

POSITION INFO:
Qualification:

B.Tech/B.Sc (Comp Sci or related field) with 13+ years OR
B.Eng/B.Sc Hons (Comp Sci or related field) with 8+ years

Experience:

6 years of relevant experience includes: experience in storage system administration preferably in a high-performance computing environment or engineer role coupled with further education or training in system administration

Knowledge:

Deep knowledge of storage technologies (SAN, NAS, cloud storage, etc.) storage protocols (FC, iSCSI, NFS, CIFS) storage management tools
Linux system installation, configuration and administration
Operating systems (Windows, Linux, Ubuntu, etc.)
Security (intrusion detection, data backup/recovery)
Scripting (Python, C C++ Programming Language)
Databases (SQL etc.)
Hardware (server hardware, storage systems and other related components)
Infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Ansible, Puppet, Chef)
Distributed monitoring and alerting (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Elastic)
Distributed logging (e.g., ELK stack)
Deployment (e.g., MaaS, FAI)
Virtualisation and containerisation (e.g., Openstack, proxmox, Docker)
Continuous integration (e.g., Jenkins, Buildbot, Github Actions)
Distributed Storage (e.g., Ceph, Lustre, MinIO)
Knowledge of high-performance computing infrastructure

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