Application Engineer II

Axelon Services Corporation; Greenville (SC); On-site; USD 100,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Axelon Services Corporation is seeking an experienced HPC storage administrator in Greenville, SC to manage and optimize the full HPC storage topology, including home directories, scratch, project storage and archives. The role involves enforcing per-user quotas, monitoring usage, and capacity forecasting within AWS-enabled environments.

You will implement data lifecycle policies, automate tiering and expiration workflows, define archival standards for engineering simulations, and collaborate

Qualifications

• Demonstrated ability to develop and document SOPs.
• Experience in HPC storage administration in a production environment.
• Experience with quota management systems and storage capacity planning.
• Expertise in high-performance parallel/distributed file systems (Lustre, GPFS, BeeGFS, WekaIO).
• Proficiency in storage tiering, data lifecycle management, and archival tooling.
• Solid Linux systems administration skills.
• Strong experience with NFS and SMB/CIFS dual permission/ACL management.

Responsibilities

• Manage and optimize the full HPC storage topology, including home directories, high-performance local scratch/compute, project storage, and archive tiers.
• Administer and enforce per-user and per-project storage quotas; monitor utilization trends and provide capacity forecasting inputs.
• Manage file permissions and access control lists (ACLs) across multi-protocol (NFS/SMB) environments.
• Contribute to storage cost benchmarking and reporting, providing data-driven insight into storage spend within the AWS environment.
• Define and enforce data lifecycle policies, implementing and maintaining automated tiering and expiration workflows.
• Lead the definition and implementation of an engineering simulation data archival standard.
• Partner with the Digital Technology (DT) team to define and maintain collaborative team and project folder structures.
• Support the organization's initiative to define engineering simulation data standards for AI/ML workloads.

Skills

SOP documentation

HPC storage admin

Quota management

Capacity planning

Lustre

GPFS

BeeGFS

WekaIO

Linux admin

NFS/SMB ACLs

Tools

Slurm

AWS S3

FSx Lustre

EFS

Job description

• Manage and optimize the full HPC storage topology, including home directories, high-performance local scratch/compute, project storage, and archive tiers.
• Administer and enforce per-user and per-project storage quotas; monitor utilization trends and provide capacity forecasting inputs.
• Manage file permissions and access control lists (ACLs) across multi-protocol (NFS/SMB) environments.
• Contribute to storage cost benchmarking and reporting, providing data-driven insight into storage spend within the AWS environment.
• Define and enforce data lifecycle policies, implementing and maintaining automated tiering and expiration workflows.
• Lead the definition and implementation of an engineering simulation data archival standard.
• Partner with the Digital Technology (DT) team to define and maintain collaborative team and project folder structures.
• Support the organization's initiative to define engineering simulation data standards for AI/ML workloads.

Summary

Location: Greenville, SC

Duration: 12 Months

Responsibilities

• Manage and optimize the full HPC storage topology, including home directories, high-performance local scratch/compute, project storage, and archive tiers.
• Administer and enforce per-user and per-project storage quotas; monitor utilization trends and provide capacity forecasting inputs.
• Manage file permissions and access control lists (ACLs) across multi-protocol (NFS/SMB) environments.
• Contribute to storage cost benchmarking and reporting, providing data-driven insight into storage spend within the AWS environment.
• Define and enforce data lifecycle policies, implementing and maintaining automated tiering and expiration workflows.
• Lead the definition and implementation of an engineering simulation data archival standard.
• Partner with the Digital Technology (DT) team to define and maintain collaborative team and project folder structures.
• Support the organization's initiative to define engineering simulation data standards for AI/ML workloads.

Requirements

• Demonstrated ability to develop and document standard operating procedures.
• Experience in HPC storage administration in a production environment.
• Experience with quota management systems and storage capacity planning.
• Expertise in high-performance parallel/distributed file systems (e.g., Lustre, GPFS/IBM Spectrum Scale, BeeGFS, WekaIO, or similar).
• Proficiency in storage tiering, data lifecycle management, and archival tooling.
• Solid Linux systems administration skills.
• Strong experience with NFS and SMB/CIFS dual permission/ACL management.

Preferred Skills

• Experience in an AWS or cloud hybrid storage environment (S3, FSx for Lustre, EFS).
• Experience working within a DevOps or collaborative Infrastructure as Code model.
• Familiarity with engineering simulation data (CFD, FEA, or similar) and associated file size/storage patterns.
• Familiarity with Slurm job scheduler in the context of scratch and burst storage.