Remote Storage Production Engineering Lead

2100 NVIDIA USA; United States; Remote; USD 272,000 - 431,000; Full time

Job summary

NVIDIA is seeking a Storage Production Engineering Manager to lead a team responsible for designing, deploying, and operating large-scale storage systems across distributed and HPC environments. You will drive reliability, performance, and scalable storage infrastructures in collaboration with engineering, DevOps, and AI teams.

The role requires 12+ years in storage architecture and 6+ years of people leadership, with hands-on experience in Lustre/GPFS, Ceph or S3-like storage, and IaC tools

Qualifications

• BS or MS in Computer Science, Storage Systems, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
• 12+ overall years of experience in large scale storage architecture, operations, production engineering, or infrastructure.
• 6+ years of people management or technical leadership experience with storage, infrastructure, or site reliability teams.
• Direct experience managing infrastructure operations including on-call rotations, incident response, ongoing maintenance, troubleshooting, and optimization of production systems, managing SLOs and operational KPIs.
• Hands on experience with parallel file systems (such as Lustre or GPFS), distributed storage (such as Ceph or MinIO), and enterprise object or NAS platforms (such as S3 compatible systems, NetApp, or Pure Storage).
• Strong knowledge of block, file, and object storage, including how to tune performance, protect data, and design for high availability.
• Experience with storage networking and protocols like NFS, SMB, iSCSI, Fibre Channel, RDMA, and NVMe-oF.
• Practical experience with automation and infrastructure as code using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or Puppet.
• Strong knowledge of monitoring and observability tools (for example Prometheus, InfluxDB, or Elastic stack), logging, and alerting used to operate and improve storage systems.

Responsibilities

• Leading and coaching a team of Storage Production Engineers, creating a collaborative, inclusive, and learning focused environment.
• Designing, deploying, and improving large scale storage systems, including distributed storage, parallel file systems, and object storage.
• Using automation, monitoring, and analytics to make storage services more reliable, efficient, and easier to operate.
• Owning capacity planning, data lifecycle management, cost awareness, and high availability and disaster recovery plans for storage.
• Evaluating and adopting modern storage approaches such as NVMe over Fabrics, RDMA, high speed interconnects, and cloud based storage.
• Guiding incident response and root cause analysis for storage issues, and putting in place changes that prevent repeat problems.
• Partnering with engineering, DevOps, and AI/ML teams to improve data pipelines, access patterns, and workflow performance.

Skills

Leadership

Storage systems

Production engineering

Terraform

Ansible

Prometheus

Kubernetes

Education

BS or MS in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Puppet

Ceph

GPFS

Lustre

Job description

NVIDIA is seeking a Storage Production Engineering Manager to lead a team responsible for designing, deploying, and operating large-scale storage systems across distributed and HPC environments. You will drive reliability, performance, and scalable storage infrastructures in collaboration with engineering, DevOps, and AI teams.

The role requires 12+ years in storage architecture and 6+ years of people leadership, with hands-on experience in Lustre/GPFS, Ceph or S3-like storage, and IaC tools