HPC Storage & Data Management Architect

PDS Tech, Inc.; Greenville (SC); Hybrid; USD 68,000 - 97,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

401K plan

Paid leave

Job summary

PDS Tech, Inc. is seeking an experienced HPC Storage & Data Management Engineer to design, optimize, and govern the storage infrastructure powering engineering simulations and data-intensive workloads used by teams around the world.

This role supports enterprise-scale storage, lifecycle management, and AI readiness initiatives, with a hybrid work environment in Greenville, SC. You'll work across Linux, multi-protocol environments, and cloud-integrated storage to enable scalable performance.

Qualifications

• Degree preferred.
• Experience administering storage environments in a production HPC environment.
• Strong expertise with high-performance parallel or distributed file systems such as Lustre, GPFS / IBM Spectrum Scale, BeeGFS, WekaIO, and similar enterprise HPC platforms.
• Experience with storage quota management and capacity planning.
• Strong knowledge of storage tiering, archival solutions, and data lifecycle management.
• Solid Linux systems administration experience.
• Experience managing NFS and SMB/CIFS permissions, ACLs, and multi-protocol storage environments.
• Proven ability to develop and document standard operating procedures.

Responsibilities

• Manage and optimize enterprise HPC storage environments, including home, project, scratch, compute, and archive storage tiers.
• Administer storage quotas and capacity planning while forecasting future infrastructure needs.
• Monitor storage utilization trends and recommend performance improvements.
• Manage file permissions and access controls across Linux and Windows environments using NFS and SMB/CIFS protocols.
• Develop and maintain storage governance standards, procedures, and best practices.
• Implement and support automated data lifecycle management, storage tiering, retention, and archival processes.
• Collaborate with infrastructure and digital technology teams to define shared storage strategies and project structures.
• Analyze storage costs and contribute to reporting and optimization initiatives within AWS environments.
• Support AI and machine learning readiness by ensuring simulation data is accessible, organized, and governed effectively.
• Create and maintain standard operating procedures and technical documentation.

Skills

HPC storage

Linux administration

NFS/SMB permissions

Data lifecycle management

Storage governance

Education

Degree preferred

Tools

Lustre

GPFS / IBM Spectrum Scale

BeeGFS

WekaIO

Job description

PDS Tech, Inc. is seeking an experienced HPC Storage & Data Management Engineer to design, optimize, and govern the storage infrastructure powering engineering simulations and data-intensive workloads used by teams around the world.

This role supports enterprise-scale storage, lifecycle management, and AI readiness initiatives, with a hybrid work environment in Greenville, SC. You'll work across Linux, multi-protocol environments, and cloud-integrated storage to enable scalable performance.