Senior HPC Storage Engineer

Advanced Research Computing melds expert staff and technical infrastructure to amplify and accelerate the impact of UCLA research in the age of networked data and computation. OARC’s expertise and resources are available to all UCLA researchers engaged in digital research and scholarship. We work with faculty, student, and postdoctoral researchers; instructors; and staff and administrators.

OARC is a relationship-building organization. We enable digital scholarship through collaborations, partnerships, and networked communities to advance cutting‑edge research capabilities at UCLA and beyond. OARC supports and enhances the university mission of education, research, and service through the development and execution of innovative and sustainable technology practices, programs, services, infrastructure, policies, and partnerships.

Join UCLA’s Office of Advanced Research Computing (OARC) and help build the research data infrastructure that powers scientific discovery at UCLA and across a national network of high-performance computing centers. We are seeking a Senior HPC Storage Engineer to lead the design, deployment, and operation of large-scale storage systems supporting data-intensive research, AI/ML, interactive computing, and multi-institutional collaborations.

This senior technical role combines architecture with hands‑on engineering. You will evaluate emerging storage technologies, lead deployment of petabyte-scale storage platforms, optimize performance, and develop secure, reliable storage services spanning campus, cloud, and federated HPC environments. As part of UCLA’s NSF-supported iDLab initiative, you will help build a national‑scale research data infrastructure that enables seamless access to data across geographically distributed computing resources.

At OARC, you will work alongside leading researchers, engineers, and partner institutions while influencing the long‑term direction of research cyberinfrastructure s is an opportunity to solve challenging technical problems, work with advanced storage technologies, and make a lasting impact on research computing at both the campus and national levels.

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• 7 years or more Experience in research, enterprise, or hyperscale storage environments with responsibility for large-scale production storage services. (Required)
• Large scale storage Experience with petabyte-scale storage, federated storage, multi-site research infrastructure, or HPC/cloud-integrated storage services. (Preferred)
• 1. Advanced knowledge of high-performance computing, data science, and cyberinfrastructure environments supporting large-scale research workloads (Required)
• 2. Demonstrated knowledge of scale-out, parallel, distributed, object, and federated storage architectures, including performance characteristics, consistency models, caching strategies, and operational tradeoffs. (Required)
• 3. Hands-on experience architecting, deploying, operating, or substantially supporting one or more large-scale storage platforms such as Lustre, VAST Data, GPFS/Spectrum Scale, Ceph, BeeGFS, WekaFS, or MinIO. Experience with multiple platforms and petabyte-scale deployments is preferred. (Required)
• 4. Demonstrated experience operating large-scale production storage systems, including monitoring,…