Data Storage System Engineer - Under tillsättning eller tillsatt, ej sökbar

We are looking for a new member to enlarge our data storage engineering team - are you the one?

The smooth functioning of the MAX IV synchrotron facility relies on the efficient and flexible operation of the computing infrastructure. Experiments located at the MAX IV beamlines collect data for scientific analysis. This data sets need to be stored and made accessible to compute resources.

For this, the MAX IV IT Infrastructure team is operating a tiered high-performance storage system designed for high I/O rates, large volumes and high availability. The challenges to the system design come from the ever-increasing data rates provided by new generations of detector systems, as well as the raising capabilities of the HPC infrastructure and scientific applications.

The successful candidate will participate, as part of the MAX IV Infrastructure Team, in the operation and scale-out of our IBM Spectrum Scale installation, the design, deployment and operation of the upcoming long-term storage facility, and play an important role in the continuing design and development of the system as needed to satisfy future requirements. We provide the opportunity to work within a small but competent team, in a challenging environment and with state-of-the art high performance systems from leading vendors.

The successful candidate is expected to actively contribute to the future development, and be able to follow and analyse the trends and new developments in storage technology. Key tasks for this position are centred on the data archive, but include also the solid state, HDD and tape-based tiers of the system.

Key Work Tasks

• Design, deployment and operation of the long-term storage system for MAX IV scientific data
• Operation and maintenance of all tiers of the MAX IV storage system (IBM ESS/Spectrum Scale)
• Performance evaluation and tuning
• Integration with other components of the IT infrastructure, such as beamline data acquisition systems, HPC cluster, data transfer system and cloud storage solutions
• Evaluation of new releases, features and SW components
• Participation in collaborative projects within MAX IV, other Lund University units and national computing infrastructures

Required qualifications

• Extensive experience with cluster storage systems
• Experience with operating tape storage systems
• Solid understanding of the Linux operating system
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills
• Fluent in spoken and written English

Additional meriting qualifications

• expertise in GPFS/Spectrum Scale a strong plus
• working knowledge of IBM Spectrum Archive and/or IBM Spectrum Protect
• Experience working in scientific environment
• Working experience with Infiniband

Probationary period may apply.