Storage Network Engineer

Position Overview

The Senior Staff Network Engineer - Storage & High-Performance Networking will design, engineer, configure, automate, and troubleshoot high performance network fabrics that support distributed storage and private cloud infrastructure. This role requires a hands on technical subject matter expert who can analyze latency, throughput, packet flow, resiliency, security, and infrastructure performance while helping define the technical architecture.

Responsibilities

• Design and engineer low latency, high throughput data center networks for storage and private cloud environments.
• Configure and support Nvidia and Mellanox switching technologies and Nvidia ConnectX series network interface cards.
• Design and support N+2 and N+3 redundant network environments with a focus on availability and operational resilience.
• Implement and troubleshoot routing and traffic management using Border Gateway Protocol, Open Shortest Path First, and Quality of Service.
• Integrate network fabrics with NVMe over TCP, distributed storage, hyperconverged infrastructure, and private cloud platforms.
• Automate network configuration, deployment, monitoring, and operational processes through infrastructure as code and related tooling.
• Troubleshoot Linux networking, packet flow, latency, throughput, and broader infrastructure performance issues.
• Partner with Security Engineering teams to apply network security principles, segmentation, and appropriate controls.
• Contribute to technical architecture decisions and provide hands on support within large scale infrastructure environments.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Expert level experience designing and engineering high performance data center networks.
• Strong hands on experience with Nvidia and Mellanox networking and switching technologies.
• Strong understanding of low latency, high throughput networking and its application to storage environments.
• Expert level knowledge of storage centric networking protocols and technologies, including NVMe over TCP and NVMe over Fabrics.
• Strong knowledge of Border Gateway Protocol, Open Shortest Path First, and Quality of Service.
• Strong understanding of Software Defined Networking concepts and architectures.
• Strong understanding of networking within distributed storage, hyperconverged infrastructure, private cloud, or similar environments.
• Strong Linux networking knowledge and experience troubleshooting issues within Linux based infrastructure.
• Experience designing and supporting N+2 and N+3 redundant and highly available network environments.
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills related to network latency, throughput, packet flow, and infrastructure performance.
• Demonstrated ability to automate network configuration, deployment, monitoring, or operational processes.
• Strong understanding of network security principles and the ability to work effectively with Security Engineering teams.
• Experience working with private cloud, data center, or other large scale infrastructure environments.

Tools and Technologies

• Nvidia and Mellanox switching technologies
• NVMe over TCP and NVMe over Fabrics
• Border Gateway Protocol, Open Shortest Path First, and Quality of Service
• Software Defined Networking and SONiC
• Linux networking
• Network automation and infrastructure as code tooling
• Ceph, Nutanix, OpenStack, and Kubernetes
• Dell R660 and Dell R760 servers with Nvidia ConnectX series network interface cards

Pay: $85.00 - $90.00 per hour

Expected hours: 40.0 per week

Experience

* Storage network: 10 years (Required)

Work Location: Remote