The Role
The Storage Team Lead will guide a team in managing PB-scale Ceph storage systems, align priorities with organizational goals, and lead automation efforts while providing architectural support and mentorship.
Summary Generated by Built In
Voleon is a technology company that applies state-of-the-art AI and machine learning techniques to real-world problems in finance. For nearly two decades, we have led our industry and worked at the frontier of applying AI/ML to investment management. We have become a multibillion-dollar asset manager, and we have ambitious goals for the future.
Your colleagues will include internationally recognized experts in artificial intelligence and machine learning research as well as highly experienced finance and technology professionals. The people who shape our company come from other backgrounds, including concert music performances, humanitarian aid, opera singing, sports writing, and BMX racing. You will be part of a team that loves to succeed together.
In addition to our enriching and collegial working environment, we offer highly competitive compensation and benefits packages, technology talks by our experts, a beautiful modern office, daily catered lunches, and more.
Your Team
We are seeking a hands-on and strategic Storage Team Lead to guide and grow our critical Storage Engineering team. This individual will be both a technical expert and a team leader, providing architectural oversight, mentorship, and direct implementation support. The ideal candidate will bring a deep understanding of Linux-based storage systems, excellent problem-solving skills, and a passion for building reliable, scalable infrastructure. You should have proven experience managing PB-scale Ceph or similar distributed storage systems, as well as handling large-scale data lifecycle processes including archiving and backup. You will be expected to lead by example - driving automation efforts, and contributing to high-level planning while managing team priorities and operations.
Occasional participation in on-call rotation is expected.
Responsibilities
- Lead a small team of storage, database, and systems administrators with duties including mentorship, performance management, and career development
- Align team priorities with organizational goals and ensure timely delivery of projects
- Participate in hiring efforts to grow and evolve the storage engineering team
- Coordinate on-call schedules and ensure effective incident response processes are in place
- Architect, implement, and maintain highly available and performant storage systems
- Define and drive automation strategies for storage deployment and monitoring
- Oversee storage lifecycle management including capacity planning, performance tuning, and data protection strategies such as archiving and backups for large-scale datasets
- Provide architectural guidance and hands-on support for Ceph at PB scale
- Collaborate closely with networking, virtualization, research, and application teams to support diverse compute and storage needs
- Participate in and improve CI/CD and configuration management processes with tools like Ansible and Git
- Support database operations through database tuning, storage optimization, and collaboration with developers
- Serve as an escalation point for advanced troubleshooting of distributed filesystems, databases, and high-performance storage infrastructure
- Hands-on administration of Linux servers, network-attached storage, virtualization platforms, and cluster frameworks
- Support and enhance observability using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Check_MK, and others
Requirements
- 5+ years of Linux Systems Administration experience with significant recent focus on storage systems
- 2+ years of team leadership, technical project management, or mentoring experience
- Deep knowledge of distributed filesystems such as Ceph and storage technologies including RAID, SAN, and NAS
- Extensive hands-on experience operating Ceph (or other DFS) at PB scale, including planning, deployment, monitoring, troubleshooting, and performance optimization
- Strong experience streamlining data lifecycle processes, including archiving, backup, and retention of PB-level data
- Strong scripting/development experience in Bash and/or Python
- Experience with configuration management tools (Ansible) and infrastructure automation
- Familiarity with monitoring and alerting systems (Nagios/CheckMK, Prometheus, Grafana)
- Understanding of virtualization (KVM, ESXi) and containerization (Docker, Podman)
- Knowledge of LDAP/IPA/AD and centralized identity management
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Kubernetes container orchestration
- PostgreSQL DBA experience
- NoSQL platform experience
- Experience in a high-throughput research or trading environment
- Exposure to RHEL/CentOS in enterprise settings
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps principles
The base salary range for this position is $185,000 to $225,000 in the location(s) of this posting. Individual salaries are determined through a variety of factors, including, but not limited to, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and geography. Base salary does not include other forms of total compensation such as bonus compensation and other benefits. Our benefits package includes medical, dental and vision coverage, life and AD&D insurance, 20 days of paid time off, 9 sick days, and a 401(k) plan with a company match.
“Friends of Voleon” Candidate Referral Program
If you have a great candidate in mind for this role and would like to have the potential to earn $15,000 if your referred candidate is successfully hired and employed by The Voleon Group, please use this form to submit your referral. For more details regarding eligibility, terms and conditions please make sure to review the Voleon Referral Bonus Program.
Equal Opportunity Employer
The Voleon Group is an Equal Opportunity employer. Applicants are considered without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, age, sex, gender, marital status, sexual orientation and identity, genetic information, veteran status, citizenship, or any other factors prohibited by local, state, or federal law.
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Top Skills
Ansible
Bash
Ceph
Docker
Esxi
Grafana
Kvm
Linux
Nagios
Nas
Podman
Prometheus
Python
Raid
San
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The Company
What We Do
Founded in 2007 by two machine learning scientists, The Voleon Group is a quantitative hedge fund headquartered in Berkeley, CA. We are committed to solving large-scale financial prediction problems with statistical machine learning.
The Voleon Group combines an academic research culture with an emphasis on scalable architectures to deliver technology at the forefront of investment management. Many of our employees hold doctorates in statistics, computer science, and mathematics, among other quantitative disciplines.
Voleon's CEO holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford and previously founded and led a successful technology startup. Our Chief Investment Officer and Head of Research is Statistics faculty at UC Berkeley, where he earned his Ph.D. Voleon prides itself on cultivating an office environment that fosters creativity, collaboration, and open thinking. We are committed to excellence in all aspects of our research and operations, while maintaining a culture of intellectual curiosity and flexibility.
The Voleon Group is an Equal Opportunity employer. Applicants are considered without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, age, sex, gender, marital status, sexual orientation and identity, genetic information, veteran status, citizenship, or any other factors prohibited by local, state, or federal law.
