We are looking for a Storage Engineer who has significant experience in enterprise environments with working tape drives/libraries and hierarchy tape management. The environment is utilising Linux and IAC.
This is a full time role, Sydney CBD based with a hybrid working environment. The candidate will have a considerable IT technical background with expertise in several of the following focus areas: data centres, infrastructure storage deployment, network services deployment and management, data storage and transmission efficiency analysis, data access interface design, or database design.
The top tech skills required to stand out from other candidates include:
Experience with working tape drives/libraries and NOT backup tape libraries
Experience working with Hierarchy Storage Management (HSM) with tapes
Experience with Ansible
Key Responsibilities
Infrastructure Management: Deploy and manage data centres, storage, and network services
Performance Analysis: Optimise data storage, transmission efficiency, and access interfaces
System Support: Maintain a secure, large-scale, high-performance, and multi-protocol robust service
Administration of storage, compute and cloud infrastructure
Perform day-to-day maintenance and administration of multi-petabyte storage systems consisting of disk and tape




Participate in capacity planning and usage trending
Implement and manage storage technologies such as auto-tiering, data replication
Maintain system and storage best practices and storage life-cycle management
Administer system and storage virtualisation layers and integration with co-located HPC, cloud and container infrastructure
Perform day-to-day troubleshooting of system and storage related issues, performance issues
Ensure robustness, security and scalability of systems and storage, and related infrastructure
Key Requirements
Tertiary qualifications or relevant experience in Computer Science (or other relevant IT field)
Strong experience in system and storage technologies, from the storage medium through to systems interconnection up to the application layer
Experience with monitoring and observability tools, notably Zabbix, Prometheus and Grafana
Ability to administer and confi gure a range of operating systems, with a focus on Linux, and services including Networking; Web Servers, Relational Databases;
Solid experience with Linux HA and cluster concepts;
In-depth knowledge and demonstrated work experience in enterprise grade, multi-tiered (disk and tape) and multi vendor storage systems

📌 Storage Engineer - Tape Library Exp (New South Wales)
🏢 W Solutions
📍 New South Wales