HPC Storage Engineer
About the Role:
A global technology-driven firm is seeking a seasoned Storage Infrastructure Engineer to join its high-performance computing environment. This role is critical to scaling and optimizing the firm's global storage systems, supporting data-intensive research and engineering operations across multiple regions.
Key Responsibilities:
- Architect, implement, and manage large-scale, high-performance storage platforms to support global operations.
- Partner with engineering and research teams to deliver robust, scalable storage solutions that accelerate data workflows and computational performance.
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues across storage, Linux systems, and networking layers in a high-demand environment.
- Integrate storage systems with distributed compute clusters, ensuring seamless operation across diverse hardware and software environments.
- Participate in global support rotations, ensuring 24/7 uptime and rapid incident response.
Required Qualifications:
- 5+ years of experience designing and managing storage systems in large-scale compute environments.
- Hands-on expertise with storage technologies such as Lustre, GPFS, S3, BeeGFS, Weka, Ceph, Vast, PowerScale, DDN, or MinIO.
- Strong Linux engineering background, including bare-metal provisioning and kernel-level understanding.
- Deep knowledge of storage stack internals, including file systems, block storage, I/O schedulers, and VFS.
- Proven ability to benchmark and tune storage systems for performance (throughput, latency, IOPS).
- Familiarity with hardware components critical to storage performance (e.g., NVMe, PCIe, NICs, PMEM, RedFish).
- Proficiency in scripting or programming with Rust, Python, Go, or Bash.
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