Storage Engineering Manager
Verda is a Helsinki-headquartered full-stack AI cloud provider offering on-demand GPU compute, clusters, serverless containers, storage, APIs, and related AI infrastructure.
Funding history
About Verda
Formerly DataCrunch, Verda operates European AI cloud infrastructure for the full AI lifecycle, from prototyping and distributed model training to scalable inference. It manages data-center infrastructure, hardware, cloud-platform services, and an in-house AI Lab.
Skills
About the Role
You will lead the Storage team that builds and operates Verda's Ceph-based storage platform, covering block, file and object storage. You will own people and growth, priorities and projects, and the reliability and durability of customer data. You will define reliability targets, run on-call and incident response, introduce change management, and drive multi-quarter projects, while partnering with the tech lead and Staff Engineer on architecture.
Requirements
- 3+ years managing infrastructure or software engineers, including hiring and performance management
- 5+ years hands-on with distributed storage in production, ideally Ceph
- Solid grasp of block, file and object storage and trade-offs
- Linux systems and performance depth: NVMe, filesystems, storage networking
- Experience designing or fixing on-call rotations and incident processes
- Track record of moving a team from heroics to process
- Technical credibility with engineers
- Strong written communication
Responsibilities
- Manage the Storage team directly, including 1:1s, coaching, performance and career development
- Own the hiring plan and onboard new engineers
- Spread storage knowledge through pairing, training and documentation
- Establish ownership areas across block, shared filesystem, object storage, dedicated clusters and new-site buildout
- Run a sustainable sheriff and on-call rotation with runbooks and blameless postmortems
- Introduce change management for high-risk operations
- Own storage security and compliance posture with the Security team
- Track service health and delivery metrics and act on them
- Introduce triage and prioritisation for incoming requests
- Represent the team to Infrastructure peers, product teams and customers
- Work with DC Ops and procurement on capacity planning and hardware and vendor evaluations
- Turn the technical roadmap into quarterly plans and drive multi-quarter projects to completion
Benefits
- Cash and equity compensation
- Local benefits
