Presentation
Linux Storage Engineer [Job ID 6109]
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SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
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Menlo Park, CA
SessionJob Postings
DescriptionAre you a motivated and innovative storage engineer with a passion for scientific research? Would you like to support the needs of multiple very large-scale scientific experiments required for massive scale data analytics? Would you like to apply your skills to architect, deploy and manage very large storage solutions that support complex scientific workflows in a heterogeneous environment? Would you like to play a part in advancing our understanding of the physical world?
If you're enthusiastic about cutting-edge technologies, value teamwork, and want to contribute to significant scientific discoveries, we invite you to apply for the Linux Storage Engineer position.
Your specific responsibilities will be to:
Engage in, support, improve and evolve the whole lifecycle of the object and POSIX storage services portfolio; from inception and design through deployment, operation and sunset
Plan for, operate and manage hundreds of PB of disk storage and tape storage
Investigate new storage technologies through research, collaboration with peers, and participation in standards organizations, industry groups, and conferences.
Gather data, perform analysis and help troubleshoot issues across the entire scientific storage services portfolio.
Provide documentation, monitoring, alerting and reporting of the entire storage portfolio.
Support day-to-day operations of scientific storage services at SLAC
Be part of a 24x7 on-call support for all storage platforms on a rotational basis
If you're enthusiastic about cutting-edge technologies, value teamwork, and want to contribute to significant scientific discoveries, we invite you to apply for the Linux Storage Engineer position.
Your specific responsibilities will be to:
Engage in, support, improve and evolve the whole lifecycle of the object and POSIX storage services portfolio; from inception and design through deployment, operation and sunset
Plan for, operate and manage hundreds of PB of disk storage and tape storage
Investigate new storage technologies through research, collaboration with peers, and participation in standards organizations, industry groups, and conferences.
Gather data, perform analysis and help troubleshoot issues across the entire scientific storage services portfolio.
Provide documentation, monitoring, alerting and reporting of the entire storage portfolio.
Support day-to-day operations of scientific storage services at SLAC
Be part of a 24x7 on-call support for all storage platforms on a rotational basis
RequirementsTo be successful in this position you will bring:
Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field and 8 years of relevant experience in Unix storage (design, operation and lifecycle) or a combination of education and relevant experience
Demonstrated expertise in Erasure Coding, RAID, fault tolerant/HA storage architectures
Demonstrated expertise in deploying and managing object storage software (Ceph, MinIO, or similar)
Demonstrated expertise in any/all of: WekaFS, Lustre, ZFS, XFS, LVM, MegaRAID, mdadm
Demonstrated expertise with heterogenous storage hardware/arrays (e.g., Dell, Supermicro, DDN, Seagate)
Proficiency with VMware or other leading virtualization platforms
Proficiency with general Unix administration, configuration management and monitoring and with cloud technologies (e.g Kubernetes)
A good understanding of high performance networking (100GbE+) and network configuration and tuning for storage networks
Proficient with programming in python and/or ruby and bash
Demonstrated track record of detecting and resolving service and performance issues
Ability to establish and promote best practices
Excellent organizational and communication skills
Ability to work effectively in a team environment
In addition, preferred requirements include:
Expertise in tape library management (Spectra Logic or IBM)
Expertise in HPSS and/or TSM/Storage Protect tape storage software
Experience with Cloud storage technologies
Company DescriptionSLAC is one of the world’s premier research laboratories, renowned for its groundbreaking capabilities in photon science, accelerator physics, high energy physics (HEP), and energy sciences. SLAC is home to some of the largest producers of scientific data on the planet. The Scientific Computing Systems (SCS) Division within the Technology Innovation Directorate (TID) provides and manages the core Scientific Computing and Data resources for SLAC, and supports the needs of a number of these prestigious large & complex projects such as the LSST-Rubin Observatory, the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) user facility, CryoEM user facilities, and the LHC ATLAS detector at CERN.
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Event Type
Job Posting
TimeTuesday, 19 November 202410:30am - 3pm EST
LocationExhibit Hall A3 - Job Fair Inside
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