Application Engineer II - HPC Storage & Data Management Engineer

WCL Group; Wade Hampton (SC); On-site; USD 72,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

WCL Group is seeking an Application Engineer II to manage HPC storage for a large cloud-based platform supporting ~1,500 engineers worldwide. You will control storage topology, quotas, ACLs, and data lifecycle from active space to archive, while monitoring usage and AWS costs.

The role partners with the Digital Technology team to ensure data is organized for AI/ML workloads and to optimize storage performance and cost across multi-protocol environments.

Qualifications

• Export-controlled information access requires government authorization.
• Experience managing HPC storage and multi-protocol environments.
• Ability to forecast capacity and optimize storage spend.

Responsibilities

• Manage HPC storage topology including home directories and archive tiers.
• Enforce per-user/project quotas and monitor utilization trends.
• Maintain file permissions and ACLs across Linux and Windows users.
• Benchmark storage costs and report AWS spend insights.
• Define data lifecycle policies and automated tiering workflows.
• Lead storage archival standards aligned with data retention strategy.
• Collaborate with DT team to standardize shared project folders and access.
• Support data standards to enable AI/ML workloads.

Skills

HPC storage

Storage quotas

ACLs

Data lifecycle

Cost benchmarking

Tools

NFS

SMB

AWS

Job description

CLIENT HIGHLIGHT

The client you will be working for is a Fortune 500 Energy and Industrial Technology Company.

LOCATION

Greenville, South Carolina, 29615

COMPENSATION

$52.00–$58.00 per hour

SCHEDULE

Monday-Friday, 40 hours

CONTRACT TERM

1 year contract with a high likelihood of extension or conversion to full time

POSITION OVERVIEW – Application Engineer II - HPC Storage & Data Management Engineer

You'll look after the storage behind a large cloud-based high-performance computing platform that supports about 1,500 engineers worldwide running simulations. You'll manage how data is stored and where it lives, from fast working space to long-term archive, set and enforce storage limits and file permissions, and keep an eye on usage and cost in AWS. You'll also set the rules for how data moves from active use to archive and help get simulation data organized so it's ready for AI and machine learning. You'll work closely with the Digital Technology (DT) team.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Manage and optimize the full HPC storage topology, including home directories, high-performance local scratch/compute, project storage, and archive tiers, and ensure data is placed to match workload performance requirements
• Administer and enforce per-user and per-project storage quotas; monitor utilization trends across the user base and provide capacity forecasting inputs to the HPC Principal Engineer and the Digital Technology (DT) team
• Manage file permissions and access control lists (ACLs) across multi-protocol (NFS/SMB) environments, ensuring consistent access governance for both Linux HPC and Windows VDI users
• Contribute to storage cost benchmarking and reporting, providing data-driven insight into storage spend within the AWS environment
• Define and enforce data lifecycle policies governing the progression of data through active, scratch, cold, and archive states; implement and maintain automated tiering and expiration workflows
• Lead the definition and implementation of an engineering simulation data archival standard, aligned with the broader engineering simulation data retention strategy
• Partner with the DT team to define and maintain collaborative team and project folder structures, and establish and communicate standard work for shared HPC storage use
• Support the organization's initiative to define engineering simulation data standards so data is structured and accessible for AI/ML workloads

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS/SKILLS

Since this role involves access to U.S. export-controlled information, candidates must be able to obtain authorization for that access from the U.S. Government. Final offers are contingent on receiving this authorization.