The Research & Development team at this successful algo trading firm builds and maintains the computers, networks, data storage, operating systems, and software that enable trading strategies and research environment to operate worldwide 24/7. Looking for a Storage Strategist who enjoys being challenged, appreciates an open and collaborative organizational structure, and thrives in a fast-paced hands-on environment.

In this role, you will own the vision, planning and execution of current and future storage needs. Given the firm's growth and ever-evolving needs (especially when it comes to AI), this is a unique opportunity to set the direction for future storage solutions and work across engineering teams to deliver it.

You will drive engagement with all stakeholders - internal users and both external and internal technology providers - understand their product portfolio and roadmap, and build a strategy that is inclusive of financial modeling.

Responsibilities

• Own the overall charter of delivering performant, reliable, and future-proof storage solutions for all storage needs
• Collaborate and drive efforts across multiple (internal) cross-functional engineering teams
• Improve user experience by understanding storage workloads and designing a variety of solutions and tools
• Forecast future storage needs, research new storage solutions, and build a five-and ten-year roadmap
• Draw insights from a deep understanding of hardware infrastructure and industry trends to inform the roadmap and planning decisions
• Review deliverables and provide relevant guidance to engineering teams
• Troubleshoot complex storage, OS, and networking issues
• Integrate storage systems with HPC clusters, ensuring compatibility with existing hardware and software
• Participate in an on-call rotation to ensure continuous support for operations, responding promptly to critical storage issues and incidents.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in HPC-like environments with multi-PB storage deployments
• Experience in developing advanced storage software solutions and/or leading software development team(s)
• Deep expertise in HPC and scale-out enterprise storage solutions
• Knowledge of distributed file systems used for large-scale cluster computing (Lustre, GPFS, WEKA, S3, CEPH, etc.)
• Strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills
• Deep technical understanding of commodity storage technologies
• Knowledgeable on storage industry trends
• Deep technical understanding of server architecture, design, and development, with emphasis on power and performance analysis
• Ability to analyze and solve problems under quick turnaround times
• Ability to manage time efficiently, balancing independent and collaborative workflows
• Proficient in Python and UNIX/Linux shell scripting

Culture:

This fund brings a scientific approach to trading financial products. They've built one of the world's most sophisticated computing environments for research and development, and their researchers are at the forefront of innovation in the world of algorithmic trading.

Colleagues come from all sorts of backgrounds: mathematics, computer science, statistics, physics, and engineering. A community of self-starters who are motivated by the excitement of being at the cutting edge of automated trading, and their culture celebrates great ideas whether they come from veterans or new hires.

Seem like something you might be interested in? The goal is to find the best people and bring them together to do great work in a place where everyone is valued. They're proud of their diverse staff; with offices all over the globe they benefit from varied and unique perspectives.

This is an equal opportunity employer; so whoever you are they'd love to get to know you.

Whilst we carefully review all applications, to all jobs, due to the high volume of applications we receive it is not possible to respond to those who have not been successful.

Contact
If this sounds like you, or you'd like more information, please get in touch:

George Hutchinson-Binks
george.hutchinson-binks@oxfordknight.co.uk
(+44) 07885 545220
linkedin.com/in/george-hutchinson-binks-a62a69252