Globus MFT Platform Engineer - Secure TB-to-PB Data Moves

Unity Systems; United States; On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Unity Systems is seeking an experienced MFT engineer to implement and operate Globus Connect Server v5 on GCP Compute Engine. You will onboard users, define operational processes, and provide technical support for secure, high-volume data movement across TB to PB scales.

The role covers configuring storage connectors, endpoints, and authentication, while optimizing transfer performance and ensuring robust security controls. Collaboration with security, infra, and research teams is essential.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of hands-on Globus experience including Globus Connect Server v5 deployment and administration.
• Strong experience with Globus endpoints, Managed/Guest Collections, Storage Gateways, S3/POSIX connectors, and Globus Web App.
• Experience with GridFTP, parallel transfers, concurrency, and performance optimization.
• Experience with Globus Flows, Globus CLI, and Globus Python SDK.
• Hands-on GCP Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, IAM, service accounts, VPC, DNS, and firewall.
• Strong Linux administration, Bash scripting, system monitoring, and troubleshooting.
• Understanding of TCP/IP, HTTPS, DNS, networking, DMZ, and Zero-Trust security.
• Experience with Managed File Transfer and large-scale data movement.
• Experience supporting terabyte- to petabyte-scale transfers in research/academic environments.

Responsibilities

• Configure, harden, and maintain Globus Connect Server v5 on GCP Compute Engine.
• Configure Globus Collections, Storage Gateways, S3 Storage Connectors, endpoints, DNS, and authentication.
• Validate secure, high-throughput TB-to-PB data transfer workflows.
• Troubleshoot transfer failures, stalled transfers, permissions, connectivity, and performance issues.
• Optimize GridFTP concurrency, parallelism, and transfer performance.
• Manage Linux VMs, services, patches, upgrades, logs, monitoring, and disaster recovery.
• Implement RBAC, access controls, audit logging, data governance, and security controls.
• Develop runbooks, SOPs, troubleshooting guides, architecture documents, and operational playbooks.
• Support Globus Flows, automation, and future AI-driven MFT operations.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, architecture, security, and research teams and provide knowledge transfer.

Skills

Globus Connect Server v5

GCP Compute Engine

Linux administration

Networking fundamentals

Globus CLI / Python SDK

Globus Auth / OAuth

RBAC / access controls

Troubleshooting data transfer

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Associate's degree in Computer Science or Engineering (with 2 years relevant experience)

Tools

S3 Storage Connectors

Globus Windows/DNS configuration

Job description

Unity Systems is seeking an experienced MFT engineer to implement and operate Globus Connect Server v5 on GCP Compute Engine. You will onboard users, define operational processes, and provide technical support for secure, high-volume data movement across TB to PB scales.

The role covers configuring storage connectors, endpoints, and authentication, while optimizing transfer performance and ensuring robust security controls. Collaboration with security, infra, and research teams is essential.