Platform Engineer- Storage

**What if you could build** a career where ambition meets innovation? ===================================================================== At LPL’s Global Capability Center, you'll find a collaborative culture where your voice matters, integrity guides every decision, and technology fuels progress. Your skills, talents, and ideas will redefine what's possible. LPL's success reflects its exceptional employees, who together pursue one noble purpose: empowering financial advisors to deliver personalized advice for all who need it. We’re proud to be expanding and reaching new heights in Hyderabad. Join us as we create something extraordinary together. **Job Overview:**  The **Storage Infrastructure Automation Engineer** is a hands-on technical role focused on designing, implementing, and enhancing automation solutions across enterprise storage and cloud environments. This role combines infrastructure engineering exposure with strong automation and scripting skills to streamline operations, improve reliability, and scale storage platforms efficiently.  The ideal candidate has solid experience in **Infrastructure as Code (IaC)**, scripting, and API-driven automation, with a foundational understanding of **SAN, NAS, and cloud storage architectures**, and a strong desire to grow into a storage automation expert.  **Key Responsibilities**  * Design, develop, and implement **automation solutions** for provisioning, configuration, monitoring, alerting, and lifecycle management of storage platforms  * Drive automation of **day-to-day (BAU) storage operations**, including capacity management, performance monitoring, incident reduction, and service requests  * Leverage **Python, PowerShell, Bash, Terraform, Ansible**, and **Applied AI** to automate manual and repetitive operational tasks  * Integrate infrastructure components using **RESTful APIs** to enable end-to-end orchestration and self-service capabilities  * Support and continuously improve **enterprise SAN, NAS, and cloud storage environments** as part of operations  * Participate in **storage infrastructure projects**, migration, refresh, and decommissioning activities  * Analyze existing workflows and infrastructure to identify **automation, reliability, and performance improvement opportunities**  * Maintain and enhance **operating system templates** and contribute to deployment and configuration automation pipelines  * Follow **ITIL processes** for incident, problem, change, and capacity management to ensure operational stability and governance  * Create and maintain Dashboards for **operational metrics and KPIs** to support continuous service improvement.  * Participate in a **Kanban delivery model**, delivering enhancements and automation features through Jira stories and epics  * Provide **on-call support** as required for storage-related production issues  * Apply a continuous improvement mindset to reduce risk, improve resilience, and enhance overall platform reliability   What are we looking for?   We want strong collaborators who can deliver world\-class client experience. We are looking for people who thrive in a fast-paced environment, are client-focused, team oriented, and can execute in a way that encourages creativity and continuous improvement.   **Required Qualifications:**  * 6+ years of experience in Storage and Backup infrastructure  **Infinidat, Pure Storage, Dell EMC (PowerMax,ECS), NetApp**.  * 3+ years of experience in **infrastructure automation**, scripting, or software development with **Infrastructure as Code (IaC)**   * Hands-on experience with automation tools such as **Python, PowerShell, Terraform, Ansible**, or equivalent   * General understanding of **enterprise storage technologies** (SAN, NAS) and storage networking concepts  * Willingness to learn and grow into advanced enterprise storage technologies  * Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent work experience.  * Excellent communication and collaboration skills.  * Ability to work independently and a part of a global team.  * Willingness to learn new technologies and skills quickly.  * Strong troubleshooting skills with the ability to solve complex issues  **If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic overachievers, you’ll enjoy**  **Good to have Qualifications:**  * Experience with enterprise tools such as Solarwinds, Dynatrace, ServiceNow,Jira.  * Experience automating storage and data services in **AWS**, including **EBS, EFS, S3, Glacier, Storage Gateway**   * Familiarity with enterprise backup and recovery solutions such as **Cohesity**   * Exposure to CI/CD tooling and configuration management, including **GitHub, GitLab, Jenkins, Atlassian tools** and **JSON, YAML, Puppet, Ansible, Terraform, CloudFormation**  * Experience with AWS services such as: **Landing Zones (LZ), ECS, EKS, Lambda, API Gateway, ELB, RDS, CloudWatch** and **Direct Connect, Transit Gateway, VPN Gateway, PrivateLink**  * Working knowledge of **Agile methodologies** (Scrum/Kanban)  * Ability to understand and work across diverse storage and backup technologies  [LPL Global Business Services, LLP - PRIVACY POLICY](https://www.lpl.com/content/dam/edam/culture/people/benefits/global-business-services-job-applicant-privacy-policy.pdf)