Engineer, Storage and Data Protection
At AHEAD · Gurugram, Haryana; Bangalore; Hyderabad
- Engineering
- Full-time
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- Posted
- 21 August 2026
- First seen by us
- 3 November 2026
- Last checked
- 16 hours ago
Job description
From AHEAD’s job post, as they wrote it.
The High-Performance Computing Storage Engineer is primarily responsible for the overall health and maintenance of storage technologies in our managed services customer's environments. Our Storage Engineers are a valued member of the Managed Services Infrastructure Practice responsible for Tier 3 incident management, service request management and change management infrastructure support for all Managed Services customers.
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Key Responsibilities
* Provide enterprise-level operational support to Managed Services customers for incident, problem, and change management activities
* Administer parallel and distributed filesystems such as Lustre, GPFS, BeeGFS, Ceph, Weka, or Vast
* Optimize storage performance, throughput, metadata operations, and data locality for AI training and inference
* Build and maintain automation for storage provisioning, monitoring, alerting, quota management, and lifecycle operations
* Plan and perform maintenance activities
* Assess customer environments for performance and design issues and propose resolutions
* Work across technical teams to troubleshoot complex infrastructure issues
* Create and maintain detailed documentation
* Serve as a subject matter expert and escalation point for storage technologies
* Work with vendors to resolve storage issues
* Communicate with customers and internal team with transparency
* Support data movement workflows including ingest, replication, caching, tiering, and archiving
* Troubleshoot storage, Linux, network, and I/O bottlenecks across storage clusters and fabrics
* Partner with infrastructure, platform, and research teams to support production AI/HPC workloads
* Evaluate new storage architectures and technologies for scalability, resilience, and cost efficiency
* Communicate with customers and internal team with transparency
* Participate in on-call rotation
Required Qualifications
Required skills- Storage - Vast, Ceph, EMC, Pure, Netapp | Parallel storage systems | Linux administration | HPC/AI ML experience | High speed networking with RDMA and InfiniBand | MSP is highly desired | ITIL is highly desired
5+ years of experience with HPC, AI infrastructure, or large-scale storage engineering
* Bachelor’s degree or equivalent Information Systems or related field. Unique education, specialized experience, skills, knowledge, training, or certification may be substituted for education
* Strong experience with Linux systems administration
* Hands-on experience configuring, managing, and tuning distributed or parallel filesystems
* Experience tuning storage for performance-sensitive workloads
* Knowledge of HPC schedulers such as Slurm and/or container platforms such as Kubernetes
* Familiarity with high-speed interconnects such as InfiniBand or RDMA
* Ability to troubleshoot complex issues across storage, compute, and networking layers
* Understanding of data protection mechanisms, including data replication, backup strategies, and disaster recovery in HPC environments
* Experience with machine learning or data science workflows in HPC environments
* Managed Services or consulting experience
* Strong background with customer service
* High level problem-solving and communication skills
* Strong oral and written communications skills
* Managed Services or consulting experience
Preferred Qualifications
* Experience supporting storage solutions for GPU clusters and AI/ML workflows
* Familiarity with object storage such as S3, MinIO, or Ceph Object Gateway
* Experience with Terraform, Ansible, Helm, or GitOps workflows
* Knowledge of observability platforms such as Prometheus and Grafana
* Experience with multi-petabyte environments, caching architectures, and storage isolation in multi-tenant systems
* Experience with machine learning or data science workflows in HPC environments
* Scripting or programming experience with Python and Bash
* Related Storage certifications are a bonus
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