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GTN Technical Staffing lists this Senior HPC Storage Engineer opportunity in fort worth, Texas. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
Compensation: Competitive Base Salary + Performance Bonus
Overview
Our client is seeking a Senior HPC Storage Engineer to design, deploy, optimize, and support large-scale storage infrastructure powering advanced HPC, AI, and data-intensive workloads.
This role will join an HPC storage engineering team responsible for more than 200PB of high-performance storage , with a significant focus on VAST Data environments.
The engineer will help scale storage capacity, improve performance, automate infrastructure operations, and maintain highly available storage platforms supporting mission-critical compute environments.
Key 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.
Performance & Optimization
Monitor and optimize storage performance across HPC and AI environments.
Troubleshoot throughput, latency, capacity, metadata, and workload-related issues.
Identify bottlenecks and recommend architectural or configuration improvements.
Partner with compute, networking, and application teams to optimize end-to-end data workflows.
Analyze utilization and workload behavior to improve infrastructure efficiency.
Automation
Develop automation for storage provisioning, configuration, monitoring, validation, and lifecycle management.
Build repeatable workflows using Python and modern automation practices.
Support Infrastructure-as-Code and DevOps approaches across storage operations.
Reduce manual processes through scripting, APIs, and automation tooling.
Operations & Troubleshooting
Troubleshoot complex issues across storage, hardware, software, networking, and workload layers.
Support highly available production storage environments.
Perform root-cause analysis and implement long-term corrective actions.
Participate in capacity planning, infrastructure expansion, and operational readiness.
Cross-Functional Engineering
Work closely with HPC, platform, network, software, and infrastructure teams.
Partner with researchers and application teams to understand workload and performance requirements.
Coordinate with storage vendors on architecture, escalations, upgrades, and product issues.
Work with technologies from VAST Data, Dell, HPE, Rubrik, and similar vendors.
Required 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.
Technical Skills
VAST Data administration, architecture, or engineering.
Experience with Dell PowerScale / Isilon, HPE, or similar scale-out storage technologies.
Python or comparable scripting experience.
Experience with APIs, automation frameworks, or Infrastructure-as-Code.
Understanding of high-speed networking as it relates to storage performance.
Experience with monitoring and infrastructure management platforms.
Preferred Experience
HPC, AI, machine learning, or research computing environments.
Storage infrastructure at 100PB+ scale.
Large GPU or CPU compute environments.
High-performance networking technologies.
Large-scale backup, replication, and data protection platforms.
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Worksite address
fort worth, TX, 76102, US
Who can apply
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