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HPC Storage Platform Engineer – Dallas
A leading global investment firm is seeking an HPC Storage Platform Engineer to join its growing infrastructure engineering team in Dallas.
This role focuses on building and scaling high-performance storage platforms that support large-scale research and compute workloads across a globally distributed environment. You’ll work on enterprise-grade storage infrastructure spanning distributed file systems, object storage, and cloud platforms, with a strong emphasis on automation, performance, and reliability.
What You’ll Do:
- Design and support large-scale storage platforms for high-performance compute environments
- Manage and optimise distributed storage systems across on-prem and cloud infrastructure
- Improve storage performance, monitoring, capacity planning, and reliability
- Build automation and tooling for provisioning, configuration, and operational workflows
- Work closely with compute, networking, and platform engineering teams on infrastructure initiatives
- Evaluate and implement new storage technologies and platform improvements
What You Bring:
- Strong experience supporting enterprise &/or HPC storage environments
- Deep Linux systems knowledge and familiarity with distributed storage technologies
- Experience with platforms such as GPFS, WEKA, Ceph, Lustre, NFS, or similar
- Strong scripting or development skills in Python, Rust, Go &/or similar languages
- Experience with automation and configuration management tools (Ansible, Terraform etc)
- Exposure to cloud storage platforms (GCP ideally)
Why This Role:
- High-impact infrastructure engineering within a globally scaled environment
- Opportunity to work on cutting-edge object storage and HPC platforms
- Strong engineering culture focused on automation and performance
- Broad exposure across distributed systems, cloud, and large-scale compute workloads
- Collaborative team with significant growth and long-term technical challenges