Senior HPC Storage Architect - Remote & On-Call

The Regents of the University of California on behalf of their Los Angeles Campus; Los Angeles (CA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

UCLA’s Office of Advanced Research Computing (OARC) seeks a Senior HPC Storage Engineer to lead design, deployment, and operation of large-scale storage systems supporting data-intensive research, AI/ML, and multi-institution collaborations. You will evaluate storage tech, deploy petabyte-scale platforms, and ensure secure, reliable services across campus, cloud, and federated HPC environments.

Join a collaborative team advancing national-scale research data infrastructure through the iDLab

Qualifications

• 7 years or more experience in storage environments with responsibility for large-scale production storage services (Required).
• Experience with petabyte-scale storage, federated storage, multi-site research infrastructure, or HPC/cloud-integrated storage (Preferred).
• Advanced knowledge of HPC, data science, and cyberinfrastructure supporting large-scale workloads (Required).
• Knowledge of scale-out, parallel, distributed, object, federated storage architectures and performance considerations (Required).
• Hands-on experience with large-scale storage platforms (Lustre, VAST Data, GPFS/Spectrum Scale, Ceph, BeeGFS, MinIO) (Required).
• Experience operating large-scale production storage systems (monitoring, capacity planning, upgrades, tuning, incident response, backup, DR) (Required).
• Advanced Linux administration including kernel troubleshooting and tuning (Required).
• Scripting/automation using Bash/Python; familiarity with Ansible and Git (Required).
• Experience integrating storage with identity providers (AD/LDAP/OIDC/SAML/Globus) (Required).
• Ability to design and execute benchmarks and document results (Required).
• Ability to design/support shared research storage services and data movement (Preferred).
• Strong communication with technical and leadership audiences (Required).
• Ability to lead technical teams and manage multi-month projects (Required).

Responsibilities

• Lead design, deployment, and operation of petabyte-scale storage systems for data-intensive research.
• Evaluate emerging storage technologies and architectures for campus, cloud, and federated HPC environments.
• Develop secure, reliable storage services and perform performance optimization.
• Conduct storage benchmarks, validate vendor claims, and document results for engineering/executive audiences.
• Coordinate with researchers and partner institutions; contribute to national-scale data infrastructure initiatives.
• Support deployment and upgrades, incident response, backup, replication, and disaster recovery for storage platforms.

Skills

Large-scale storage

HPC storage

Storage architectures

Lustre

GPFS/Spectrum Scale

Ceph

BeeGFS

MinIO

Performance tuning

Linux administration

Scripting (Bash/Python)

Identity integration (AD/LDAP/OIDC/SAM

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science/related field

Master's Degree (Preferred)

PhD (Preferred)

Tools

Ansible

Git

Python

Job description

UCLA’s Office of Advanced Research Computing (OARC) seeks a Senior HPC Storage Engineer to lead design, deployment, and operation of large-scale storage systems supporting data-intensive research, AI/ML, and multi-institution collaborations. You will evaluate storage tech, deploy petabyte-scale platforms, and ensure secure, reliable services across campus, cloud, and federated HPC environments.

Join a collaborative team advancing national-scale research data infrastructure through the iDLab