IT Storage Engineer - Exabyte-Scale Infrastructure

United States Digital Space LLC; Starbase (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking an IT Storage Engineer to design, implement, and maintain enterprise storage for mission-critical workloads, including simulation and telemetry. The role requires hands-on experience with NetApp, Pure Storage, Vast, and HPE Alletra in on-prem environments.

You will build high-performance, low-latency storage, automate monitoring and capacity planning, and collaborate with compute, networking, and application teams to align storage with system

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, or other STEM discipline and 3+ years of professional IT storage engineering experience; OR 5+ years of IT storage engineering experience in lieu of a degree.
• Experience with enterprise storage platforms: NetApp, Pure Storage, Vast, HPE Alletra.
• Strong understanding of storage protocols: NFS, CIFS/SMB, iSCSI, and NVMe over TCP.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain multi-tier storage infrastructure (performance, capacity, archive, backup/recovery, DR).
• Architect high-throughput, low-latency storage and exabyte-scale file systems (e.g., VAST) for simulation and telemetry.
• Administer NetApp, Pure, Vast, and HPE Alletra storage systems.
• Monitor and troubleshoot performance across hardware, RDMA transport, and protocol layers.
• Troubleshoot complex issues across protocols and operating systems.
• Manage access controls and permissions across protocols and OS.
• Develop automation for monitoring, capacity planning, configuration management, and alerting.
• Define standards for deployment, tuning, and operations.
• Collaborate with compute, networking, and apps teams to align storage with architecture and workloads.
• Participate in maintenance, on-call rotations, and hardware installation.

Skills

NetApp storage

Pure Storage

Vast storage

NFS/SMB/iSCSI

NVMe over TCP

Python scripting

Ansible

PowerShell

Monitoring tools

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/engineering or STEM

5+ years storage engineering without a degree

Tools

DFS administration

Monitoring tools

Virtualization

Python

PowerShell

Ansible

Job description

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking an IT Storage Engineer to design, implement, and maintain enterprise storage for mission-critical workloads, including simulation and telemetry. The role requires hands-on experience with NetApp, Pure Storage, Vast, and HPE Alletra in on-prem environments.

You will build high-performance, low-latency storage, automate monitoring and capacity planning, and collaborate with compute, networking, and application teams to align storage with system