Job Overview
Integrant is seeking a highly motivated and experienced Lead Storage Engineer to join our team and play a key role in managing our data storage infrastructure. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience with DDN and VAST storage solutions, as well as a strong understanding of storage area networks (SANs) and network attached storage (NAS). In this role, you will be responsible for all aspects of storage administration, including provisioning, configuration, monitoring, and troubleshooting. This is a customer-facing position.
Responsibilities
• Design, deploy, configure, and operate high-performance storage solutions using either WEKA or VAST to meet application performance, scalability, and availability requirements.
• Build and support scale-out storage platforms for HPC and AI/ML workloads.
• Install, configure, and maintain storage systems aligned with architectural standards and customer needs.
• Provision and manage storage resources, including file systems, volumes, snapshots, and quotas.
• Configure and manage storage pools and data services within WEKA or VAST environments.
• Implement and maintain data protection strategies, including snapshots, replication, and backup integrations.
• Monitor storage performance, health, and capacity utilization; proactively identify and address bottlenecks.
• Troubleshoot and resolve storage-related issues across distributed storage environments.
• Perform routine maintenance, upgrades, and lifecycle management activities.
• Collaborate with compute, networking, and platform teams to support end-to-end infrastructure operations.
• Document storage architectures, configurations, operational procedures, and troubleshooting runbooks.
• Participate in a weekly on-call rotation and respond to storage-related incidents.
• Stay current on WEKA and VAST product updates, as well as broader storage industry best practices.
Requirements
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 10+ years of experience administering enterprise, cloud, or high-performance storage systems.
• Hands-on experience with either WEKA or VAST storage platforms in production environments.
• Experience with other enterprise or high-performance storage technologies (e.g., DDN, Pure, NetApp) is beneficial.
• Strong understanding of scale-out storage architectures and high-performance file systems.
• Solid knowledge of storage access protocols such as NFS, SMB, and parallel file system concepts.
• Strong Linux systems administration skills.
• Experience monitoring, tuning, and troubleshooting performance-sensitive workloads.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
Preferred Qualifications
• Experience supporting HPC, AI/ML, or data-intensive workloads.
• Familiarity with GPU-accelerated environments and large-scale compute clusters.
• Experience with storage performance benchmarking and capacity planning.
• Scripting or automation experience (e.g., Python, Bash).
• Exposure to cloud storage concepts or hybrid storage architectures.
• Experience with IT service management tools (e.g., TopDesk) is a plus.
Benefits
- Salary paid in USD
- Six-month career advancing opportunities
- Supportive and friendly work environment
- Premium medical insurance [employee +family]
- English language development courses
- Interest-free loans paid over 2.5 years
- Technical development courses
- Planned overtime program (POP)
- Employment referral program
- Premium location in Maadi
- Social insurance
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field (or equivalent experience)
- 7+ years of experience in storage administration
- Proven experience with DDN storage solutions
- Proven experience with VAST storage solutions
- Experience with Pure (Pure Storage) systems
- In-depth understanding of SANs and NAS
- Strong understanding of storage protocols (FC, iSCSI, NFS)
- Experience with storage management software (e.g., DDN SFA, VAST Management Console)
- Strong Linux systems administration skills and experience with open-source technologies
- Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills
- Strong analytical and communication skills; ability to communicate clearly with team members and clients
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team
- Excellent time management and organizational skills
- Participate in weekly on-call rotation
- Experience with storage virtualization technologies (e.g., VMware vSAN, EMC VPLEX)
- Experience with cloud storage solutions (e.g., AWS S3, Azure Blob Storage)
- Experience with scripting languages (e.g., Python, PowerShell)
- Experience with high-performance storage and parallel file systems used in HPC/AI and cloud
- HPC cluster administration experience
What We Do
Integrant, Inc. is a custom software development company focused on providing tailor made software solutions to fit your needs to a tee. We strive to uncover your pain points and identify how our team can seamlessly integrate with you and your business for a one-team approach. Our guiding principle is to always do the right thing for our customers and employees. Some days this means happy news of a “hit on the mark” demo, successful launch, or challenging problem solved. Other days this means making hard decisions, asking tough questions, or working more than we planned. Every day, it means doing our best to provide the highest quality service to each of our customers. We do that by investing our people in you and inspiring a people-to-people connection so when we say, “we share your goals,” we truly mean it.
