Linux Storage Engineer

SLAC Job Postings

Position overview:

Are 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?

SLAC 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.

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

To 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

SLAC employee competencies :

• Effective Decisions: Uses job knowledge and solid judgment to make quality decisions in a timely manner.
• Self-Development: Pursues a variety of venues and opportunities to continue learning and developing.
• Dependability: Can be counted on to deliver results with a sense of personal responsibility for expected outcomes.
• Initiative: Pursues work and interactions proactively with optimism, positive energy, and motivation to move things forward.
• Adaptability: Flexes as needed when change occurs, maintains an open outlook while adjusting and accommodating changes.
• Communication: Ensures effective information flow to various audiences and creates and delivers clear, appropriate written, spoken, presented messages.
• Relationships: Builds relationships to foster trust, collaboration, and a positive climate to achieve common goals.

Physical Requirements and Working Conditions:

• You are expected to reside locally and work onsite up to 3 days a week
• Consistent with its obligations under the law, the University will provide reasonable accommodations to any employee with a disability who requires accommodations to perform the essential functions of the job. May work extended hours during peak business cycles.

Work Standards :

• Interpersonal Skills: Demonstrates the ability to work well with SLAC/Stanford colleagues and clients and with external organizations.
• Promote Culture of Safety: Demonstrates commitment to personal responsibility and value for environment, safety and security; communicates related concerns; uses and promotes safe behaviors based on training and lessons learned. Meets the applicable roles and responsibilities as described in the ESH Manual, Chapter 1-General Policy and Responsibilities: http://www-group.slac.stanford.edu/esh/eshmanual/pdfs/ESHch01.pdf
• SLAC employees are subject to and expected to comply with all applicable Stanford University policies and procedures, including but not limited to the personnel policies and other policies found in the University's Administrative Guide, http://adminguide.stanford.edu

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Classification Title: System Administrator 3

Grade: K

Job code: 4833

Duration: Regular Continuing

The expected pay range for this position is $140,000 to $168,602 per annum. SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Stanford University provides pay ranges representing its good faith estimate of what the university reasonably expects to pay for a position. The pay offered to a selected candidate will be determined based on factors such as (but not limited to) the scope and responsibilities of the position, the qualifications of the selected candidate, departmental budget availability, internal equity, geographic location and external market pay for comparable jobs.