Senior Storage Engineer

About the role

Clarivate is looking for a Senior Storage Engineer to join its Private Cloud Engineering team in Barcelona. You will design, operate and continuously improve the enterprise storage infrastructure supporting business-critical services across multiple data centers, in a multi-vendor environment covering NAS and SAN, Linux and virtualization platforms such as VMware, KVM and OLVM. The role contributes to storage automation, migrations, disaster recovery and future architecture.

Key responsibilities

• Design, operate and improve enterprise storage infrastructure for the private cloud across several data centers.
• Manage and optimize SAN and NAS environments, including provisioning, capacity, performance, availability, upgrades and lifecycle.
• Administer and troubleshoot NFS and iSCSI services, Linux host connectivity and multipathing.
• Support shared storage for VMware and KVM/libvirt/QEMU virtualization environments.
• Lead complex storage troubleshooting and root-cause analysis across storage, Linux, virtualization, network and application layers.
• Plan and execute storage migrations, upgrades and technology refreshes with minimal disruption.
• Automate storage operations with Ansible, scripting and APIs, and support replication and disaster recovery.
• Work with infrastructure teams and storage vendors on capacity planning, escalations, lifecycle management and future architecture.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• At least 5 years in infrastructure engineering, including hands-on administration of enterprise storage.
• 5+ years with SAN and NAS in production, and 5+ years administering NFS and iSCSI with host connectivity.
• 5+ years supporting storage in Linux environments, including multipathing.
• 5+ years managing storage provisioning, capacity, performance, availability, upgrades and lifecycle.
• Experience with VMware and/or KVM/libvirt/QEMU, and troubleshooting complex production issues.

Required skills

• NAS and SAN storage technologies
• NFS and iSCSI, Linux multipathing
• VMware and KVM/libvirt/QEMU
• Ansible, scripting and API-based automation (preferred)
• Storage replication and disaster recovery (preferred)

What we offer

• Full-time permanent position, core business hours in CET, hybrid up to 2 days a week in the office.
• 30 working days of vacation and paid volunteering hours.
• Private health and life/disability insurance, tax-free benefits (restaurant voucher, kindergarten, transport cards).
• Agile team, language classes in Catalan, Spanish and English, and a digital workplace.