Lab Reliability Engineer: Automation & Platform Expert

VAST Data; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

VAST Data in New York State seeks a senior Lab Operations Engineer to own the reliability of our lab clusters. You will drive automation, tooling, and infrastructure-as-code practices, while serving as the escalation point for the toughest technical problems in the lab.

You will collaborate with a growing team across engineering, pre-sales, and services to validate solutions and keep the lab production-quality.

Qualifications

• 4+ years in systems engineering, storage engineering or related role.
• Hands-on with enterprise storage systems at operational level.
• Strong Linux admin skills: networking, storage, filesystems, systemd, CLI.
• Programming/scripting: Python or Bash to build automation.
• Operational experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Infra-as-code or config management tools such as Ansible.
• Solid networking foundations and troubleshooting ability.
• Experience with virtualization platforms (VMware vSphere, ESXi, Proxmox).
• Methodical troubleshooting across storage, network, compute layers.

Responsibilities

• Own operational reliability of VAST clusters in the lab; monitor health and plan upgrades.
• Serve as primary tech escalation for complex cluster issues; collaborate with engineering.
• Shape automation and tooling strategy for the lab, including provisioning and dashboards.
• Establish standards for infrastructure-as-code and config management in the lab.
• Reproduce issues in controlled labs and provide diagnostic data for engineering.
• Own lab infrastructure including virtualization, compute, networking, and storage.
• Mentor and support other lab operations team members.
• Collaborate with pre-sales, services, and engineering to validate lab scenarios.

Skills

Systems engineering

Storage engineering

Customer support engineering

Linux administration

Python

Bash

Docker

Kubernetes

Ansible

VMware vSphere

Proxmox

Networking

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Ansible

VMware vSphere

Proxmox

Grafana

Prometheus

Job description

VAST Data in New York State seeks a senior Lab Operations Engineer to own the reliability of our lab clusters. You will drive automation, tooling, and infrastructure-as-code practices, while serving as the escalation point for the toughest technical problems in the lab.

You will collaborate with a growing team across engineering, pre-sales, and services to validate solutions and keep the lab production-quality.