Description
Lead the diagnosis and resolution of the most complex, systemic, and elusive Lustre file system issues, performing deep dive root cause analysis.
Provide expert-level support for performance bottlenecks, data integrity concerns, and critical outages affecting large-scale Lustre environments.
Design, architect, and implement scalable and high-performing Lustre solutions to meet evolving High-Performance Computing (HPC) demands.
Proactively identify and implement optimizations for Lustre performance, I/O patterns, and metadata operations across the HPC infrastructure.
Develop and refine monitoring, alerting, and logging strategies for comprehensive Lustre health and performance tracking.
Oversee major Lustre upgrades, migrations, and expansion projects, ensuring minimal disruption to HPC workloads.
Act as a primary liaison with Lustre vendors and the open-source community for advanced bug reporting, feature requests, and technical consultations.
Collaborate closely with HPC system administrators, researchers, and other technical teams to understand requirements and integrate Lustre effectively into complex workflows.
Mentor and provide technical guidance to Tier 1-3 support personnel and other HPC team members on Lustre best practices and advanced troubleshooting techniques.
Develop and maintain robust disaster recovery, backup, and high availability strategies for critical Lustre data and services.
Automate routine operational tasks and develop custom tools or scripts to enhance Lustre management and user experience.
Evaluate, test, and integrate new Lustre features, versions, and complementary storage technologies to enhance the HPC ecosystem.
Create and maintain comprehensive documentation, runbooks, and knowledge base articles for Lustre architecture, configurations, and complex issue resolution.
Work Experience
Execute configuration, tuning, testing, and advanced storage troubleshooting for cloud-based implementations such as HADOOP.
Provide configuration, tuning, testing, and advanced storage troubleshooting for RedHat, Suse, and Solaris operating systems, specifically pertaining to file services and Fibre Channel (FC) connectivity.
Install, configure, tune, troubleshoot, and administer SGI IRIX based operating systems.
Manage and maintain SGI systems, including those with direct attached storage and Fibre Channel (FC) SAN storage.
Administer Network Appliance clusters, encompassing direct attached storage and Fibre Channel (FC) SAN storage.
Support and troubleshoot applications deployed on Network Appliance and SGI IRIX platforms.
Install, configure, tune, troubleshoot, and administer multi-vendor clustered file systems such as GPFS and Lustre.
Manage and troubleshoot Brocade Fibre Channel (FC) switch networks.
Install, configure, tune, troubleshoot, and administer enterprise-class storage arrays.
Optimize and manage Solid State Disk (SSD) storage solutions.
Administer NFS/CIFS based server/storage appliances.
Install, configure, tune, troubleshoot, and administer HPSE solutions.
Manage and troubleshoot Data Domain and similar data deduplication products.
Install, configure, tune, troubleshoot, and administer cloud-based storage solutions, including HADOOP and IBM BigInsights.
Manage and resolve trouble tickets efficiently using the Remedy ITSM system.
Specialty Experience
None required
Relevant Experience
10 years' experience (with degree or 15 without) in a large and complex IT environment providing industry and government recognized functional expertise with the skills listed above
Education
10 years' experience (with degree or 15 without) in a large and complex IT environment providing industry and government recognized functional expertise with the skills listed above
Marquee Defense is an equal opportunity employer (EEO)
All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.