Storage Engineer

Penta Consulting are a technology service provider and leading outsourced partner helping to deliver professional and managed solutions across EMEA.

We are seeking a highly skilled Dell ECS Engineer to join our infrastructure team. This role is ideal for someone with strong experience in object storage platforms and cloud-native architectures, who is passionate about managing large-scale, unstructured data environments.

Summary

• Design, implement, and manage Dell ECS (Elastic Cloud Storage) solutions
• Administer and maintain object storage environments (S3-compatible)
• Monitor system performance, capacity, and availability
• Perform upgrades, patching, and lifecycle management of ECS clusters
• Troubleshoot storage, network, and access issues
• Work with application and DevOps teams to integrate ECS with workloads
• Implement data protection, replication, and disaster recovery strategies
• Ensure security best practices (IAM, encryption, access controls)
• Provide documentation and knowledge transfer to internal teams

Required Skills & Experience

• Proven experience with Dell ECS or similar object storage platforms
• Strong understanding of: - Object storage concepts (S3, REST APIs) & Distributed systems and storage architectures
• Experience with Linux systems and networking fundamentals
• Knowledge of data protection and replication methods
• Familiarity with monitoring tools and performance tuning
• Experience supporting large-scale storage environments