HPC Storage Solutions Engineer

DDN; Australia; Remote; AUD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

DDN Australia is seeking a Professional Services Engineer to deliver technical implementation, consulting, optimization, and enablement for high-performance data infrastructure. The role spans planning, installation, and ongoing optimization with a focus on storage platforms, EXAScaler/Lustre, Linux, and fast networks.

You will collaborate with Sales, Support, Product Engineering, and other teams to ensure successful projects, including health checks, benchmarking, and knowledge transfer.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or related discipline.
• 5+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering, storage, data-centre operations, or related field.
• Hands-on experience with Linux systems administration and troubleshooting.
• Experience implementing enterprise storage, HPC, AI, or high-performance computing environments.
• Strong understanding of IP networking, Ethernet, InfiniBand or other high-speed interconnects.

Responsibilities

• Plan and execute customer installations, upgrades, expansions, migrations, and system health checks.
• Perform hardware installation activities, including inventory verification, rack-and-stack, cabling, power-on, and hardware health checks.
• Install and configure DDN storage systems, EXAScaler file systems, DDN Insight, and related software components.
• Configure file systems, client connectivity, authentication, networking, monitoring, and high-availability features.
• Conduct performance benchmarking, analysis, tuning, and capacity or infrastructure assessments.
• Troubleshoot complex hardware, operating-system, networking, file-system, and performance issues.
• Coordinate with DDN Support and Engineering teams for escalations, defects, replacement parts, and advanced technical resolution.

Skills

Linux administration

Networking

Troubleshooting

Communication

Travel willingness

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering/IT

Tools

EXAScaler

Lustre

NFS

gpfs

Job description

DDN Australia is seeking a Professional Services Engineer to deliver technical implementation, consulting, optimization, and enablement for high-performance data infrastructure. The role spans planning, installation, and ongoing optimization with a focus on storage platforms, EXAScaler/Lustre, Linux, and fast networks.

You will collaborate with Sales, Support, Product Engineering, and other teams to ensure successful projects, including health checks, benchmarking, and knowledge transfer.