storage engineering manager

Verda builds cloud infrastructure for AI, providing instant, on-demand compute at scale. Headquartered in Helsinki, the company operates across Europe, the US and Asia.

• Manage the Storage team through 1:1s, coaching, career development, performance management, and compensation input
• Own the hiring plan, define team profiles and levels, run the hiring process, and onboard new engineers
• Spread storage knowledge through pairing, internal training, and documentation
• Establish ownership areas across block storage and VM volumes, shared filesystems, object storage, dedicated customer clusters, new-site buildout, performance, and capacity
• Run a sustainable sheriff and on-call rotation with escalation policies, runbooks, blameless postmortems, and written handovers
• Introduce change management for high-risk operations, including major Ceph upgrades, rolling node maintenance, rebalancing, and multi-site changes
• Own storage security and compliance with the Security team, covering vulnerability response, encryption, data lifecycle and sanitisation, and customer-data handling rules
• Track service health and delivery metrics, including durability, availability, latency, capacity headroom, and incident trends, and act on them
• Introduce lightweight triage and prioritisation for requests from Cloud, Provisioning, Platform, AI/ML, and customer-facing teams
• Represent the team to Infrastructure peers, product teams, and customers, and negotiate scope and priorities on the team's behalf
• Work with DC Ops and procurement on capacity planning, hardware and vendor evaluations, and decisions that account for cost, risk, and timeline
• Turn the technical roadmap into quarterly plans with owners, milestones, and status, and drive multi-quarter projects to completion

• 3+ Years managing infrastructure or software engineers, including hiring, performance management, and leading a team through significant growth or change
• 5+ Years of hands-on production experience with distributed storage, ideally Ceph, including upgrades, recovery, rebalancing, capacity expansion, hardware failures, and related incidents
• Solid understanding of block, file, and object storage and their trade-offs, including RBD, CephFS, NFS, S3, replication, erasure coding, latency, throughput, and storage-network interactions
• Linux systems and performance expertise, including NVMe, filesystems, storage networking, and performance analysis
• Experience designing or improving an on-call rotation and incident process
• Track record of moving a team from heroics to process through runbooks, change management, planning, and metrics
• Strong written communication and the technical credibility to make sound engineering judgements
• Будет плюсом: Ceph RGW multisite, S3 compatibility, customer-facing object storage, high-performance shared or parallel filesystems for AI, Lustre, VAST, DDN, WEKA, GPUDirect Storage, RDMA, NVMe-oF, storage for GPU clusters and ML training or inference, checkpointing, dataset throughput, NVIDIA reference architectures, QEMU/KVM, Kubernetes CSI, Rook, storage across many datacenters, repeatable new-site launches, vendor management, structured hardware or software evaluations, storage security and compliance, encryption at rest, data sanitisation, ISO 27001, SOC 2

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