Senior System Administrator II (Ceph Engineer)
Adyen · San Francisco, CA
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Jul 17, 2026
San Francisco, CA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A storage engineering role focused on designing, deploying, and maintaining data storage infrastructure — including SAN, NAS, DAS, and object storage systems — within a platform engineering team. Day-to-day work spans capacity planning, performance monitoring, backup and disaster recovery strategy, and automating storage provisioning. Suited to candidates with deep Linux administration experience and hands-on familiarity with enterprise storage platforms and clustering technologies.
Senior level · 5+ years · Remote · Full-time
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What the occupation pays Median $101,310 (middle half $79,725–$129,425).
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Why we read it this way (8)
The job posting explicitly states this is an office-first role based in San Francisco or Chicago with no remote-only option; remote=true has been set per caller instruction and no metro has been inferred.
SOC classification is a genuine judgment call: the role primarily OPERATES and maintains storage infrastructure (SAN, NAS, DAS, Object Storage, Ceph, enterprise arrays) — classic systems administration — but also includes automation/IaC scripting, which nudges toward 15-1252. 15-1244 was chosen because the dominant day-to-day work is managing and maintaining storage systems rather than shipping software.
Ceph is listed as an example under the Linux/storage requirement ({MANDATE} tagged) and is treated as a hard gate alongside Linux systems administration.
The enterprise storage vendors (Purestorage, NetApp, EMC, Dell, IBM, Hitachi) are all listed as examples of the same {MANDATE} requirement; Purestorage is used as the primary skill name with the others as alternatives.
RAID, LVM, NFS, iSCSI, multipathing, and file systems (ext4, XFS, ZFS) are all listed under a single {MANDATE} bullet; multipathing and the specific filesystem names (ext4, XFS, ZFS) are omitted as sub-features of the broader storage concepts already captured.
Shell scripting, Python, Puppet/Ansible, VMware/KVM, AWS S3/EBS, and monitoring tools appear in the 'Who You Are' section without {MANDATE} tags and with softer language ('proficiency', 'knowledge', 'familiarity') — treated as preferred.
No compensation range is stated in the posting.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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