Senior Storage Engineer

Adyen provides payments, data, and financial products in a single solution for customers like Meta, Uber, H&M, and Microsoft - making us the financial technology platform of choice. At Adyen, everything we do is engineered for ambition. 

For our teams, we create an environment with opportunities for our people to succeed, backed by the culture and support to ensure they are enabled to truly own their careers. We are motivated individuals who tackle unique technical challenges at scale and solve them as a team. Together, we deliver innovative and ethical solutions that help businesses achieve their ambitions faster.

This team is part of our Platform Engineering team in Amsterdam. The purpose of Platform Engineering is to enable Adyen engineers to autonomously build and support secure, scalable and reliable applications with high speed and quality through a common technology ecosystem. As a storage engineer of our Storage team in Amsterdam, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, managing, and maintaining data storage systems and solutions. This role involves the end-to-end management of our organization's data storage infrastructure. This includes strategic design for scalability, hands-on implementation and integration, continuous performance monitoring, capacity planning, security, and troubleshooting. It also requires proactive maintenance with updates, backups, disaster recovery, and planning for future growth by evaluating and recommending new technologies for data availability, reliability, and efficiency. 

• →Design and deploy storage infrastructure (SAN, Object Storage) in accordance with organizational needs. 
• →Monitor and maintain storage systems to guarantee optimal performance, availability, and reliability. 
• →Perform capacity planning and forecasting for future storage needs. 
• →Develop and implement strategies for backup, replication, and disaster recovery. 
• →Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to storage systems. 
• →Maintain documentation of configurations, procedures, and standards. 
• →Collaborate with other Platform Engineering teams on system upgrades, migrations, and integrations. 
• →Automate storage provisioning and management using scripting or infrastructure-as-code tools

• 5+ years of experience in Linux systems administration with a focus on storage (e.g., Ceph)
• Proven experience with enterprise storage systems (e.g., Purestorage, NetApp, EMC, Dell, IBM, Hitachi).
• You have a strong understanding of RAID, LVM, NFS, iSCSI, multipathing, and file systems (ext4, XFS, ZFS, etc.) 
• Hands-on experience with enterprise storage systems and clustering technologies 
• Proficiency in shell scripting; 
• You have Python, Puppet or Ansible knowledge experience with virtualization technologies such as VMware or KVM. 
• You have familiarity with cloud storage solutions like AWS S3 and EBS. 
• Experience with monitoring tools (Nagios, Prometheus, Zabbix, etc.)

We actively seek different perspectives to sharpen our ideas. Our unique culture is a product of our diverse backgrounds and experiences. No matter who you are or where you’re from, you’re welcome to be your true self at Adyen. 

If you need accommodations or support during the recruitment process to perform at your best, you’ll have the opportunity to let our team know in your application. We encourage people from all backgrounds and abilities to apply.

Ensuring a smooth and enjoyable candidate experience is critical for us. We aim to get back to you regarding your application within 5 business days. Our interview process tends to take about 4 weeks to complete, but may fluctuate depending on the role. Learn more about our hiring process here. Don’t be afraid to let us know if you need more flexibility.

This role is based out of our Amsterdam office. We are an office-first company and value in-person collaboration; we do not offer remote-only roles.