Senior HPC Storage Systems Engineer

Job Description

Job Description

COMPANY OVERVIEW

XCEL Engineering, Inc. is an award-winning small business that provides trusted information technology, engineering, consulting and project management solutions and services to federal agencies and organizations. Originally founded in 1971 by professional engineers at the University of Tennessee, XCEL was acquired in 2003 by U.S. Army and Navy veterans and in 2023 became a MartinFed company.

XCEL Engineering is a part of IT Lab Partners (ITLP) which was created to support a leading research facility in the East Tennessee region in recruiting the best and the brightest technical talent. Considering joining our impressive team today!

JOB OVERVIEW

Xcel Engineering is seeking a Senior HPC Storage Systems Engineer to design, operate and maintain clusters, servers, and workstations storage supporting services where science happens at ORNL! This position resides in the Emerging Technologies & Computing team in the Research Computing group in the Information Technology Services Directorate at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).

The Emerging Technology Computational Group facilitates goals through HPC systems engineering, integration, and support for the research community. By providing design, deployment, optimization, monitoring, and tooling support across multiple clustered storage infrastructures, we facilitate Lab-wide R&D projects. Our HPC clusters range in scope from just a handful of nodes to over fifty-thousand cores.

We partner with ORNL research organizations to enable research excellence and delivery. We work with other clustered computing and HPC groups to help research programs identify the best solutions for their needs. When we build our customer's environments, our team collaborates to design, implement, and maintain the systems from inception to retirement.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Architect, deploy, and manage large-scale HPC storage systems, including parallel file systems such as Lustre, GPFS / Spectrum Scale, BeeGFS and WEKA
• Design, implement, and operate large-scale Ceph storage clusters for HPC and research workloads, delivering reliable, high-performance object, block, and file storage services.
• Ensure the availability, performance, scalability, and security of production storage environments.
• Administer and optimize enterprise storage platforms such as Qumulo and NetApp in support of HPC and research workloads.
• Design, deploy, and maintain archival storage solutions including Spectra Logic BlackPearl and large-scale tape libraries to ensure long-term data preservation and accessibility.
• Integrate high-performance, enterprise, and archival storage layers into cohesive tiered storage architectures that balance cost, scalability, and performance for diverse scientific workflows.
• Leverage automation and monitoring solutions to minimize day-to-day maintenance while identifying opportunities to optimize system performance and management.
• Collaborate with researchers and technical POCs to support large data workflows and optimize I / O performance for scientific workloads.
• Automate storage provisioning, monitoring, and maintenance using scripting and configuration management tools.
• Diagnose and resolve complex storage and I / O-related issues in high-throughput, low-latency HPC environments.
• Evaluate emerging storage technologies (NVMe, object storage, hierarchical storage management, burst buffers) and contribute to strategic planning for future HPC systems.
• Work with 24 / 7 operations staff to streamline monitoring and troubleshooting, significantly reducing the need for off-hours support.
• Deliver ORNL's mission by aligning behaviors, priorities, and interactions with our core values of Impact, Integrity, Teamwork, Safety, and Service. Promote equal opportunity by fostering a respectful workplace.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

Master's degree holders : 7-10 years of relevant experience.

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS & ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS

OTHER DUTIES

This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Xcel Engineering is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, color, religion, religious creed, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, transgender, pregnancy, marital status, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, disability, protected Veteran Status, genetics or any other characteristics protected by applicable federal, state or local law.

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