Storage Engineer (80-100%) — Lombard Odier

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A career at Lombard Odier means working for a renowned global wealth and asset manager, with a strong focus on sustainable investing. An innovative bank of choice for private and institutional clients, our independently owned Firm is one of the best-capitalised banking groups in the world, managing close to CHF 300 billion and operating from over 25 offices across 4 continents.

With a history spanning over 230 years, Lombard Odier is an investment house providing a comprehensive offering of discretionary and advisory portfolio management, wealth services and custody. We also offer asset management services and investment strategies through Lombard Odier Investment Managers and provide advanced banking technology to other financial institutions.

“Rethink Everything” is our philosophy – it is at the heart of everything we do. We have grown stronger through more than 40 financial crises by rethinking the world around us to provide a fresh investment perspective for our clients.

Storage Engineer (80-100%)

We are looking for a Storage & Backup Engineer with a strong passion for enterprise infrastructure, data protection, and automation. You will join a dynamic team of 15 system engineering experts who manage a global infrastructure of more than 7,000 servers, multiple enterprise storage platforms, and mission-critical backup services supporting the Bank's operations worldwide. This is a large-scale technical environment where reliability, performance, resilience, and innovation are at the core of our mission.

You will play a key role in the design, operation, and evolution of our storage and backup ecosystem, including SAN fabrics, enterprise storage arrays, replication technologies, and data protection platforms. You will ensure the availability, performance, and scalability of critical infrastructure supporting business applications and services.

Your responsibilities will include the management and optimization of storage arrays, SAN switches and zoning configurations, Active-Active replication solutions, backup and recovery platforms, as well as performance monitoring and capacity planning across the storage landscape.

YOUR MISSION

• Design, manage, and evolve enterprise Storage, SAN, and Backup infrastructures
• Ensure the performance, availability, and resiliency of critical data storage and protection services
• Contribute to infrastructure modernization projects, including replication, disaster recovery, and object storage technologies
• Drive automation initiatives to improve operational efficiency and reduce manual intervention
• Propose innovative solutions to optimize services, enhance reliability, and reduce Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
• Maintain accurate documentation and ensure compliance with security and governance standards

YOUR PROFILE

• Higher education in computer science or communication systems
• Minimum 2 years of experience in the field
• Strong knowledge of enterprise Storage and Backup technologies
• Proven experience managing storage arrays and SAN infrastructures
• Strong understanding of storage performance analysis, troubleshooting, and capacity planning
• Experience with Active-Active replication technologies and disaster recovery solutions
• Good knowledge of SAN switching, Fibre Channel protocols, and zoning concepts
• Good knowledge of S3-compatible object storage technologies
• Experience with automation using Ansible, Python, PowerShell, or similar technologies
• Experience with one or more of the following products: Hitachi, NetApp, Pure Storage, Brocade, Commvault
• Knowledge of virtualization technologies, especially VMware, is considered an asset
• Familiarity with Microsoft infrastructure technologies (Windows Server, Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, System Center) is a plus
• Understanding of authentication and security technologies such as Kerberos, PKI, or ADFS is advantageous
• Structured, analytical, proactive, and solution-oriented mindset
• Fluent in both F