Senior Linux HPC Storage & Cloud Engineer

RiseMe; Pleasanton (CA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grants

Health benefits

Retirement benefits

Annual bonus program

Job summary

10x Genomics is seeking a Linux system administrator with strong data protection experience to join our IT team. You will design, operate, and document enterprise and HPC compute and storage across hybrid environments, ensuring security, reliability, and performance for multi-petabyte genomic data.

Responsibilities include on-call support, post-incident reviews, and implementing automated patching, backup, and data lifecycle management using IaC tools like Ansible and Terraform.

Qualifications

• 5 years managing petabyte-scale enterprise or HPC storage.
• Strong knowledge of data replication and backup technologies.
• Strong knowledge of diverse Linux distributions including Debian, Ubuntu and Amazon Linux.
• Experience with AWS (S3, EBS, EC2, VPC, IAM).
• Solid knowledge of cross-platform file sharing protocols (NFS, SMB) and access control (Active Directory/LDAP).
• Experience scripting in Bash or Python.
• Experience with IaC and configuration management tools (Ansible, Terraform).

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, operate and document enterprise and HPC compute and storage across hybrid environments.
• Architect and maintain storage and compute clusters with best practices for configuration management, patching, and performance tuning.
• Manage off-site/cloud backup, archive, and data replication solutions; ensure operational readiness of all backup systems.
• Enforce data integrity, security compliance and automated monitoring across production storage and backup systems.
• Manage data lifecycle of corporate and research datasets; implement and enforce DLM policies.
• Participate in a shared on-call rotation to support production environment.
• Lead post-incident reviews to identify root causes and implement long-term fixes.

Skills

Petabyte-scale storage

Linux administration

AWS experience

Automation tools

Bash/Python scripting

Data protection

Backup replication

Tools

AWS

Terraform

Ansible

Proxmox VE

VMware ESXi

Job description

10x Genomics is seeking a Linux system administrator with strong data protection experience to join our IT team. You will design, operate, and document enterprise and HPC compute and storage across hybrid environments, ensuring security, reliability, and performance for multi-petabyte genomic data.

Responsibilities include on-call support, post-incident reviews, and implementing automated patching, backup, and data lifecycle management using IaC tools like Ansible and Terraform.