Senior HPC Storage Architect - Remote/Hybrid

University of California Los Angeles; Los Angeles (CA); Hybride; USD 150 000 - 210 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Join UCLA’s Office of Advanced Research Computing (OARC) as a Senior HPC Storage Engineer to design, deploy, and operate large-scale petabyte storage platforms for data-intensive research across campus, cloud, and federated HPC environments.

You will lead architecture, evaluation of emerging storage tech, and implement secure, reliable storage services while coordinating with researchers and partner institutions to advance national-scale research infrastructure.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in large-scale storage environments with production services.
• Experience with petabyte-scale and federated storage architectures.
• Advanced knowledge of HPC, data science, and cyberinfrastructure for large workloads.
• Hands-on with Lustre, GPFS/Spectrum Scale, Ceph, BeeGFS, or similar platforms.
• Experience operating production storage systems, monitoring, backups, DR, and upgrades.
• Advanced Linux administration across InfiniBand, RoCE, Ethernet fabrics.
• Scripting and automation; familiarity with Ansible and Git.
• Identity integration with AD/LDAP/OIDC/SAML/Globus Auth.
• Ability to benchmark, document results, and communicate to exec audiences.
• Excellent communication, independence, and collaboration.

Responsabilités

• Lead design, deployment, and operation of large-scale storage platforms.
• Evaluate new storage tech and optimize performance for data-intensive research.
• Develop secure, reliable services spanning campus, cloud, and federated HPC.
• Support iDLab initiative with national-scale data infrastructure.
• Coordinate with researchers, engineers, and partners to sustain services.

Connaissances

HPC know-how

Scale-out storage expertise

Linux performance tuning

Scripting (Bash/Python)

Automation (Ansible)

Git/version control

Storage benchmarking

Independent & collaborative work

On-call readiness

Formation

Bachelor's Degree in CS/Computational Science/Engineering

Master's Degree in CS/Computational Science/Engineering

PhD in CS/Computational Science/Engineering

Outils

Lustre

GPFS/Spectrum Scale

Ceph

BeeGFS

WekaFS

MinIO

Description du poste

Join UCLA’s Office of Advanced Research Computing (OARC) as a Senior HPC Storage Engineer to design, deploy, and operate large-scale petabyte storage platforms for data-intensive research across campus, cloud, and federated HPC environments.

You will lead architecture, evaluation of emerging storage tech, and implement secure, reliable storage services while coordinating with researchers and partner institutions to advance national-scale research infrastructure.