Engineer, Storage and Data Protection
Job in
New York, New York County, New York, 10261, USA
Listed on 2026-10-28
Listing for:
AHEAD
Full Time
position Listed on 2026-10-28
Job specializations:
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IT/Tech
Systems Engineer, Cloud Computing: Infrastructure & Operations, IT Infrastructure
Job Description & How to Apply Below
The High-Performance Computing Storage Engineer is primarily responsible for the overall health and maintenanceofstoragetechnologiesin our managed services customer'senvironments. Our Storage Engineers are a valued member of the Managed Services Infrastructure Practice responsible for Tier 3 incident management, service requestmanagementand change management infrastructure support for all Managed Services customers.
Key Responsibilities- Provide enterprise-level operational support to Managed Services customers for incident, problem, and change management activities
- Administer parallel and distributed file systems such as Lustre, GPFS,BeeGFS, Ceph, Weka, or Vast
- Optimize storage performance, throughput, metadata operations, and data locality for AI training and inference
- Build andmaintainautomation for storage provisioning, monitoring, alerting, quota management, and lifecycle operations
- Plan and perform maintenance activities
- Assess customer environments for performance and design issues and propose resolutions
- Work across technical teams to troubleshoot complex infrastructure issues
- Create andmaintaindetailed documentation
- Serve as a subject matter expert and escalation point for storage technologies
- Work with vendors to resolve storage issues
- Communicate with customers and internal team with transparency
- Support data movement workflows including ingest, replication, caching, tiering, and archiving
- Troubleshoot storage, Linux, network, and I/O bottlenecks acrossstorageclusters and fabrics
- Partner with infrastructure, platform, and research teams to support production AI/HPC workloads
- Evaluate new storage architectures and technologies for scalability, resilience, and cost efficiency
- Communicate with customers and internal team with transparency
- Participate in on-call rotation
- 5+ years of experience with HPC, AI infrastructure, or large-scale storage engineering
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent Information Systems or related field. Unique education, specialized experience, skills, knowledge, training, or certification may be substituted for education
- Strong experience with Linux systems administration
- Hands-on experience configuring, managing, and tuning distributed or parallel file systems
- Experience tuning storage for performance-sensitive workloads
- Knowledge of HPC schedulers such as Slurmand/or container platforms such as Kubernetes
- Familiarity with high-speed interconnects such as Infini Band or RDMA
- Ability to troubleshoot complex issues across storage, compute, and networking layers
- Understandingofdata protection mechanisms, including data replication, backup strategies, and disaster recovery in HPC environments
- Experience with machine learning or data science workflows in HPC environments
- Managed Services or consulting experience
- Strong background with customer service
- High level problem-solving and communication skills
- Strong oral and written communications skills
- Managed Services or consulting experience
- Experience supporting storage solutions forGPU clusters and AI/ML workflows
- Familiarity with object storage such as S3,MinIO, or Ceph Object Gateway
- Experience with Terraform, Ansible, Helm, orGit Ops workflows
- Knowledge of observability platforms such as Prometheus and Grafana
- Experience with multi-petabyte environments, caching architectures, and storage isolation in multi-tenant systems
- Experience with machine learning or data science workflows in HPC environments
- Scripting or programming experience with Python and Bash
- Related Storage certifications are a bonus
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