Storage Engineer

vor 3 Wochen


Lugano, Schweiz CSCS Vollzeit

Job description

The main goal  of this position is to implement and operate HPC storage services in a multi-tenant infrastructure. As a Storage Engineer, you will directly contribute to the designing, implementation, maintenance, and documentation of storage services for HPC. 

Your contributions will directly impact the development and enhancement of CSCS’s HPC systems, thereby enhancing overall system functionality and efficiency.

Your profile

You should have a bachelor’s or higher degree in computer engineering, computer science, a relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

You should have  a sound knowledge of: 

Linux administration skills, Generic filesystem aspects and functions (data, metadata, block-size, etc.), Storage redundancy technologies (RAID, D-RAID, EC etc.), Backup solutions (DMF, TSM, Veeam) and backup concepts, Object Storage concepts and S3 service usage/implementation, Automation tools and framework, including CI/CD processes and ecosystem (e.g., Gitlab CI, HashiCorp Vault).

Experience with the following is preferred, though there will be ample opportunities to learn and gain more experience with all of these skills on the job:

Parallel file systems (GPFS, Lustre),  Ceph Storage Clusters, Versioning systems and CI/CD workflows such as ArgoCD, Automated installation systems for physical servers, such as MAAS or Foreman, Developing Ansible configurations, Developing services on top of Kubernetes.