Senior HPC Storage Engineer — Scale Petabyte AI Data

GTN Technical Staffing; United States; On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

GTN Technical Staffing's client is seeking a Senior HPC Storage Engineer to design, deploy, and optimize large-scale storage infrastructure powering HPC, AI, and data-intensive workloads. You will contribute to 200PB+ environments with a focus on VAST Data and scalable, highly available storage platforms.

The role emphasizes automation, capacity planning, performance optimization, and cross-functional collaboration with compute, networking, and research teams.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience designing, deploying, or supporting enterprise or HPC storage infrastructure.
• Experience with VAST Data strongly preferred.
• Experience with distributed, clustered, or scale-out storage platforms.
• Strong understanding of file, block, and object storage.
• Experience supporting multi-petabyte or rapidly scaling storage environments.
• Strong knowledge of storage performance, capacity planning, redundancy, availability, and data protection.
• Experience troubleshooting across storage, compute, and networking layers.
• Ability to support highly available production environments.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, administer, and scale VAST Data and other high-performance storage environments.
• Support multi-petabyte storage infrastructure with a focus on availability, throughput, scalability, and low-latency access.
• Serve as a technical resource for storage architecture, configuration, upgrades, capacity planning, and troubleshooting.
• Support storage lifecycle activities including deployments, expansions, migrations, upgrades, and technology refreshes.
• Develop storage engineering standards and operational best practices.

Skills

VAST Data experience

HPC storage engineering

Python scripting

APIs / automation / IaC

High-speed networking

Capacity planning

Tools

Dell PowerScale / Isilon

HPE scale-out storage

Monitoring platforms

Job description

GTN Technical Staffing's client is seeking a Senior HPC Storage Engineer to design, deploy, and optimize large-scale storage infrastructure powering HPC, AI, and data-intensive workloads. You will contribute to 200PB+ environments with a focus on VAST Data and scalable, highly available storage platforms.

The role emphasizes automation, capacity planning, performance optimization, and cross-functional collaboration with compute, networking, and research teams.