Responsible for administration, performance tuning, capacity planning, monitoring, troubleshooting, and support of enterprise parallel file systems and storage platforms supporting HPC workloads.

Key Responsibilities

Parallel Filesystem Administration

Manage HPC storage infrastructure

Administer Lustre, IBM GPFS (Spectrum Scale), BeeGFS or equivalent

Storage provisioning

Quota management

Namespace administration

Performance Management

Storage performance tuning

I/O bottleneck analysis

Throughput optimization

Latency troubleshooting

Capacity forecasting

Data Protection

Snapshots

Backup and restore

Data integrity checks

Failover testing

Disaster recovery support

Storage Operations

Daily health checks

Scrub monitoring

Error counter analysis

OEM advisory implementation

Storage incident management

Capacity Planning

Utilization monitoring

Growth forecasting

Risk reporting

Capacity recommendations

Mandatory Skills

HPC Storage

Must have experience with one or more:

Lustre

IBM Spectrum Scale (GPFS)

BeeGFS

CephFS

Enterprise Storage

Dell PowerScale / Isilon

NetApp

Pure Storage

HPE Alletra

Lenovo ThinkSystem

Linux

RHEL

Rocky Linux

Linux storage management

Performance Analysis

IOPS analysis

Throughput monitoring

Storage benchmarking

Capacity analytics

Experience Requirements

Prefer 3–5 years storage engineering experience

Experience supporting HPC environments

Experience in enterprise storage platforms

Certifications

Mandatory:

ITIL Foundation

Preferred:

Dell Storage Certification

NetApp NCDA

IBM Spectrum Scale Certification

Red Hat Storage Certification