HPC Storage & Data Management Engineer

Drive the Future of High-Performance Computing and Enterprise Data Infrastructure

• Location: Greenville, SC | Hybrid work environment
• Schedule: Monday-Friday | 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
• Pay Rate: $59.95/hr

Shape the Platform Behind Mission-Critical Engineering Innovation

PDS Tech Commercial is seeking an experienced HPC Storage & Data Management Engineer to support a global energy industry leader. In this highly visible role, you'll help design, optimize, and govern the storage infrastructure powering advanced engineering simulations and data-intensive workloads used by teams around the world.

This is an opportunity to work at enterprise scale, supporting approximately 1,500 global users while helping drive cloud-based HPC innovation, data lifecycle strategy, and AI readiness initiatives.

What You'll Do

As the HPC Storage & Data Management Engineer, you'll serve as a key technical resource responsible for the performance, scalability, and governance of a large-scale HPC storage environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage and optimize enterprise HPC storage environments, including home, project, scratch, compute, and archive storage tiers
• Administer storage quotas and capacity planning while forecasting future infrastructure needs
• Monitor storage utilization trends and recommend performance improvements
• Manage file permissions and access controls across Linux and Windows environments using NFS and SMB/CIFS protocols
• Develop and maintain storage governance standards, procedures, and best practices
• Implement and support automated data lifecycle management, storage tiering, retention, and archival processes
• Collaborate with infrastructure and digital technology teams to define shared storage strategies and project structures
• Analyze storage costs and contribute to reporting and optimization initiatives within AWS environments
• Support AI and machine learning readiness by ensuring simulation data is accessible, organized, and governed effectively
• Create and maintain standard operating procedures and technical documentation

Required Qualifications

• Degree preferred
• Experience administering storage environments in a production HPC environment
• Strong expertise with high-performance parallel or distributed file systems such as:
• Lustre
• GPFS / IBM Spectrum Scale
• BeeGFS
• WekaIO
• Similar enterprise HPC platforms
• Experience with storage quota management and capacity planning
• Strong knowledge of storage tiering, archival solutions, and data lifecycle management
• Solid Linux systems administration experience
• Experience managing NFS and SMB/CIFS permissions, ACLs, and multi-protocol storage environments
• Proven ability to develop and document standard operating procedures

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with AWS or hybrid cloud storage technologies including:
• Amazon S3
• FSx for Lustre
• EFS
• Experience working within DevOps, automation, or Infrastructure-as-Code environments
• Familiarity with engineering simulation workloads such as CFD, FEA, or related applications
• Knowledge of Slurm workload management and scratch storage optimization

Why Join Us?

This is more than a storage engineering role. It's an opportunity to influence the future of enterprise HPC infrastructure supporting cutting-edge engineering and technology initiatives.

• Work with large-scale cloud and HPC technologies
• Support mission-critical engineering and simulation environments
• Collaborate with highly skilled infrastructure and engineering teams
• Contribute to AI and advanced data management initiatives
• Gain exposure to enterprise-level architecture and cloud transformation projects
• Competitive compensation and a stable Monday-Friday schedule
• Opportunity for long-term career growth with a global industry leader

Ready to Make an Impact?

If you're passionate about HPC infrastructure, enterprise storage architecture, and solving complex technical challenges at scale, we'd like to hear from you.

Apply today and help power the next generation of engineering innovation through high-performance computing and intelligent data management.

This position requires use of information or access to facilities subject to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and/or Export Administration Regulations (EAR). These regulations may limit access of controlled technologies: 1) to U.S. Persons, including U.S. Citizens, lawful permanent residents, and other narrow categories including refugees and asylees, or 2) to certain foreign nationals that have received an export license.

Pay Details: $59.95 per hour

Benefit offerings available for our associates include medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, additional voluntary benefits, EAP program, commuter benefits and a 401K plan. Our benefit offerings provide employees the flexibility to choose the type of coverage that meets their individual needs. In addition, our associates may be eligible for paid leave including Paid Sick Leave or any other paid leave required by Federal, State, or local law, as well as Holiday pay where applicable.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled

Military connected talent encouraged to apply

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