Senior Linux Storage Engineer — HPC & Data Pipelines

National Laboratory of the Rockies; Golden (CO); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 181,000; Full time

Job summary

National Laboratory of the Rockies in Golden, CO is seeking a Storage Engineer III to design, deploy, and maintain scalable storage systems for data-intensive workloads. You will install and optimize storage hardware and software across object, block, and distributed file systems, including cloud storage integrations.

The role emphasizes Linux-based infrastructure, networked storage solutions, and collaboration with researchers and operations teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of related experience, or equivalent education/experience.
• Master's degree and 3+ years of related experience, or equivalent education/experience.
• PhD or equivalent education/experience.
• General knowledge of IS disciplines; strong leadership and project management skills.
• Analytical problem solving; advanced programming, design and analysis abilities with various software.
• US citizenship required for access to sensitive Government information systems.

Responsibilities

• Install, configure, and support storage-related products and services for advanced computing efforts.
• Determine optimal hardware and software configurations and stay current with new storage technologies.
• Support data-intensive activities using object, block, and distributed file systems and cloud storage.
• Work in a hybrid role with at least 3 days on-site at NLR.

Skills

Linux systems

Storage engineering

Data pipelines

Python

PERL

Bash

Collaboration

Project management

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

PhD

Tools

Network Attached Storage

Backup software

Git

Ansible

SLURM

InfiniBand

Ceph

BeeGFS

Lustre

Job description

National Laboratory of the Rockies in Golden, CO is seeking a Storage Engineer III to design, deploy, and maintain scalable storage systems for data-intensive workloads. You will install and optimize storage hardware and software across object, block, and distributed file systems, including cloud storage integrations.

The role emphasizes Linux-based infrastructure, networked storage solutions, and collaboration with researchers and operations teams.