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Job descriptionRole Overview
The Senior Integration Solutions Engineer is responsible for architecting, validating, and documenting enterprise solutions leveraging S3-compatible object storage. This role works across data protection, analytics, AI/ML, search, and modern data lakehouse platforms to ensure solution interoperability, performance, scalability, and operational excellence. The engineer functions as a technical authority, designing validation strategies, developing performance benchmarks, troubleshooting complex environments, and publishing best-practice guidance for customers and partners.
Key Responsibilities
Solution Architecture & Validation
- Validate partner solutions including data protection, analytics, observability, search, and data lake platforms.
- Design and validate end-to-end reference architectures leveraging S3-compatible object storage for data protection, analytics, search, AI/ML, and data lake workloads.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and identify strategic integration opportunities for object storage platforms.
- Define validation methodologies that accurately reflect real-world customer deployment scenarios.
- Work directly with engineering, product management, partners, and field teams to ensure successful solution integration and deployment.
- Serve as a subject matter expert for object storage integration patterns, performance characteristics, and best practices.
Integration & Performance Testing
- Develop and execute comprehensive integration, interoperability, scalability, and performance test plans.
- Design benchmark tests that characterize throughput, latency, concurrency, and scalability under production-scale workloads.
- Build automated validation frameworks and test environments that improve testing efficiency and coverage.
- Identify performance bottlenecks across storage, network, compute, application, and infrastructure layers.
Troubleshooting & Root Cause Analysis
- Investigate complex issues spanning distributed applications, object storage systems, networking, operating systems, and cloud-native technologies.
- Analyze logs, traces, metrics, and telemetry data to determine root causes and recommend corrective actions.
- Reproduce field and customer-reported issues and work with development teams to validate resolutions.
- Provide technical leadership during escalations involving partner integrations and strategic customer environments.
- Publish validated reference architectures, deployment guides, solution briefs, and technical whitepapers.
- Develop sizing guidance, architecture recommendations, and performance tuning documentation.
- Present technical findings to customers, partners, sales engineers, and executive stakeholders.
Required Qualifications
- Experience designing, validating, or supporting enterprise-scale data platform, storage, or cloud infrastructure solutions.
- Strong background in integration testing, performance testing, or solution validation.
- Proven troubleshooting experience with distributed applications and multi-tier architectures.
- Experience with object storage technologies and S3-compatible APIs.
- Strong analytical skills and ability to investigate complex technical challenges independently.
- Excellent written communication skills with experience creating technical documentation.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Commvault, Veeam, Cohesity, Rubrik, or other data protection platforms.
- Experience with Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Splunk, or large-scale search and observability platforms.
- Experience with Apache Spark, Kafka, Trino, Iceberg, Delta Lake, Starburst, Databricks, or similar data analytics technologies.
- Familiarity with AI/ML data pipelines and data lake architectures.
- Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud-native environments.
- Experience authoring technical whitepapers, benchmark reports, and reference architectures.
- Experience presenting technical findings to customers and executive audiences.
- Strong knowledge of Linux, networking, and system administration concepts.
- Proficiency in Python, scripting, or test automation development.
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About usWe’re a global team of innovators. Together, we harness engineering excellence and passion for insight to co-create meaningful solutions to complex challenges. We turn organizations into data-driven leaders that can a make positive impact on their industries and society. If you believe that innovation can inspire the future, this is the place to fulfil your purpose and achieve your potential.
Fostering innovation through diverse perspectivesHitachi is a global company operating across a wide range of industries and regions. One of the things that sets Hitachi apart is the diversity of our business and people, which drives our innovation and growth.
We are committed to building an inclusive culture based on mutual respect and merit-based systems. We believe that when people feel valued, heard, and safe to express themselves, they do their best work.
How we look after youWe help take care of your today and tomorrow with industry-leading benefits, support, and services that look after your holistic health and wellbeing. We’re also champions of life balance and offer flexible arrangements that work for you (role and location dependent). We’re always looking for new ways of working that bring out our best, which leads to unexpected ideas. So here, you’ll experience a sense of belonging, and discover autonomy, freedom, and ownership as you work alongside talented people you enjoy sharing knowledge with.
We’re proud to say we’re an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, age, disability status or any other protected characteristic. Should you need reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know so that we can do our best to set you up for success.