Senior Storage Systems Engineer - HPC & Ceph

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

Western Australia

On-site

AUD 110,000 - 170,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Job summary

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) is seeking a Senior System Administrator Storage for Pawsey's Scientific Platforms Team in Perth. You will maintain and optimise large-scale storage and archive systems, including Ceph-based storage, object storage and tape archives, ensuring reliable, long-term access to research data.

Join a highly skilled team delivering critical national research infrastructure with opportunities to lead storage, cloud, HPC, and supporting

Qualifications

Proven experience administering Linux/Unix systems.
Experience operating HSM or tape/archive backups.
Knowledge of Ceph storage or related storage tech (SAN).

Responsibilities

Lead operation, maintenance and optimisation of Pawsey's object storage and archive infrastructure.
Troubleshoot complex storage service issues and drive continuous improvements.
Provide technical leadership across storage, cloud, HPC, Linux and supporting platforms.
Manage archive workflows, data movement, automation and re-archiving activities.
Perform hands-on infrastructure tasks including server, storage, tape library and networking hardware maintenance.
Develop and maintain technical documentation and runbooks.
Support service delivery through incident, request and change management processes.