Senior Storage Engineer (Hybrid)

This role is responsible for developing, maintaining, and improving automation, tooling, integrations, and operational capabilities that support reliable infrastructure services. The ideal candidate has a foundation in software development, scripting, Linux, APIs, CI/CD, troubleshooting, and DevOps practices, with an interest in building practical tools that improve service delivery, monitoring, reporting, and operational efficiency. Prior storage experience, including object storage, SAN, Cloudian HyperStore, or related storage technologies, is helpful but not required. You will work as part of the Storage squad within the Platform Tribe, collaborating with senior engineers, application teams, security, and operations teams to build automation and tooling that supports reliable, secure, and scalable infrastructure services. This role is well suited for someone who enjoys coding, problem solving, improving manual processes, and learning enterprise infrastructure through development-focused work.

About the team

The Storage squad is part of the Platform Tribe. Our squad delivers and operates VMware and storage infrastructure for Swift critical applications, with a strong focus on automation, tooling, integrations, and operational efficiency.

As part of our commitment to Agile principles, we have embraced the Scrum framework to enhance productivity transparency, and adaptability in our activities. We value iterative and incremental development, which allows us to deliver value to our stakeholders while improving our processes.

Our internal processes are highly automated and focus on security, scalability, and operability.

What to Expect:

In this role you will:

• Develop and maintain scripts, utilities, and automation workflows that reduce manual effort and improve infrastructure service delivery
• Build and enhance internal tools, dashboards, reports, and self-service capabilities to support operations, monitoring, provisioning and incident response
• Work with senior engineers to understand infrastructure platforms and translate operational needs into practical automation and tooling solutions
• Create integrations using APIs, command-line tools, web services and automation interfaces to improve administration and service delivery
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, source control practices, testing, code reviews and deployment processes for automation and internal tooling
• Help troubleshoot issues across automation workflows, Linux systems, APIs, networking, DNS, monitoring and related infrastructure services
• Automate routine operational tasks such as provisioning, health checks, reporting, validation, maintenance and compliance evidence collection
• Develop reusable code, templates, playbooks, or modules that support repeatable and consistent infrastructure operations
• Support monitoring and observability improvements by contributing to alerts, metrics, log collection, dashboards and reporting automation
• Collaborate with infrastructure, application, security and operations teams to understand requirements and deliver automation that improves reliability, security and operational efficiency
• Apply secure coding and operational practices, including access control, secrets handling, auditability, error handling and documentation
• Create and maintain technical documentation, developer notes, standard operating procedures and runbooks for automation, tools and platform support
• Participate in production support and on-call activities, using development and troubleshooting skills to assist with service restoration and incident follow-up
• Identify manual or repetitive operational activities and propose automation, workflow or tooling improvements
• Participate in incident response, root cause analysis and continuous improvement initiatives by improving automation, observability and operational tooling

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field
• Equivalent hands-on development, scripting, automation or infrastructure tooling experience will also be considered
• Foundational software development or scripting experience using Python, Bash, PowerShell, Go, JavaScript or a similar language. preferably 3-6 years of experience
• Basic understanding of Linux, networking, DNS, APIs and infrastructure support concepts
• Experience creating scripts, automation workflows or small tools to solve operational or technical problems
• Familiarity with Git, source control practices, CI/CD concepts, testing and code review processes
• Ability to read documentation, understand requirements and translate operational needs into clear technical solutions
• Strong problem-solving skills, attention to detail and willingness to learn infrastructure platforms through development-focused work
• Good written and verbal communication skills, including technical documentation, status updates and operational reporting
• Interest in improving operational efficiency through automation, tooling, integration and continuous improvement

Preferred Qualifications:

• Exposure to Cloudian HyperStore or another enterprise object storage platform
• Familiarity with S3-compatible storage concepts, including buckets, policies, replication, lifecycle management and access control
• Exposure to enterprise block storage, SAN fabrics, Brocade switches, HDS, HPE XP or similar storage platforms
• Experience with infrastructure automation and configuration management tools such as Ansible, Terraform, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps or similar platforms
• Experience developing REST API integrations, command-line tools, internal web tools, dashboards or reporting automation
• Familiarity with containers, Kubernetes, configuration management, observability platforms or infrastructure-as-code practices
• Knowledge of secure development practices, secrets management, auditability, compliance evidence collection and operational controls
• Exposure to multi-site or multi-region storage deployments and disaster recovery concepts
• Experience creating internal admin tools, reporting dashboards, operational scripts, or automation frameworks to improve platform support
• Python, Linux, DevOps, cloud, automation, or CI/CD certifications
• Cloudian Certified Administrator (CCA), Cloudian Certified Engineer (CCE) or storage-related certifications

The estimated salary range for a new hire in this position in Virginia is $101,303.00 USD Annual MINIMUM to $188,135.00 USD Annual MAXIMUM. Salary may vary depending on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location. Our compensation packages include a competitive base salary and bonus opportunity for all employee’s contingent on personal and company performance. Our generous benefits program includes medical, dental, vision and life insurance with no premium costs for our employees and their families, and retirement plan plus matching 401k.

We’re the world’s leading provider of secure financial messaging services, headquartered in Belgium. We are the way the world moves value - across borders, through cities and overseas. No other organisation can address the scale, precision, pace and trust that this demands, and we’re proud to support the global economy.

We’re unique too. We were established to find a better way for the global financial community to move value - a reliable, safe and secure approach that the community can trust, completely. We’re always striving to be better and are constantly evolving in an ever-changing landscape, without undermining that trust. Five decades on, our vibrant community reflects the complexity and diversity of the financial ecosystem. We innovate diligently, test exhaustively, then implement fast. In a connected and exciting era, our mission has never been more relevant. Swift now has a presence in 200+ countries and legal territories to serve a community of more than 12,000 banks and financial institutions.

Swift is unable to sponsor an employment authorization for this position now or in the future.