Technical Account Manager
At DDN · Santa Clara Colocation; Santa Clara, California, United States
Salary: US$128,000–154,000 a year
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- Full-time
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Job description
From DDN’s job post, as they wrote it.
Overview
DDN is seeking a Technical Account Manager (TAM) to work directly with strategic enterprise and AI/ML customers, deploying, integrating, and optimizing DDN systems in production environments.
As an TAM, you will serve as the hands-on technical lead responsible for ensuring the success, reliability, and performance of large-scale, globally distributed HPC and AI infrastructure. You’ll act as the bridge between DDN Engineering and customer Site Reliability/Operations teams, translating complex requirements into tested, automated, and maintainable solutions. You will also collaborate with sales and sales engineering teams to develop and optimize offerings to ensure customer success.
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Key Responsibilities
* Deploy, configure, and optimize DDN storage and data management systems in customer environments.
* Partner with customer Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and Operations teams to ensure production performance, availability, and scalability.
* Partner with DDN Sales and Sales Engineering teams to deliver solutions that add value to our customer environments
* Automate system monitoring, deployment, and configuration tasks using scripts and DevOps tooling.
* Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues across compute, storage, and networking layers.
* Develop and maintain deployment documentation, procedures, and best practices.
* Work with DDN Engineering and Product Management to translate field requirements into product enhancements (RFEs).
* Act as the on-site technical focal point during deployments, upgrades, and critical incidents.
* Lead technical meetings and operational reviews with customer and DDN stakeholders.
* Drive continuous improvement through feedback loops with Product, Support, and Engineering teams.
* Ensure alignment between deployed configurations and customer strategic roadmaps for HPC, AI, and ML workloads.
Required Skills and Experience
* 8+ years of hands-on technical experience in systems engineering, deployment, or operations.
* Strong Linux administration background.
* Proven experience deploying and managing large-scale HPC, AI, or ML infrastructure.
* Deep knowledge of parallel file systems (Exascaler, Lustre, or GPFS).
* Experience configuring and troubleshooting InfiniBand and high-performance Ethernet networks.
* Proficiency with DevOps tools and scripting (Python, Bash, Ansible, etc.) for automation and monitoring.
* Familiarity with containers, orchestration (Kubernetes, Slurm), and hybrid/cloud environments.
* Experience developing and maintaining technical documentation and operational runbooks.
* Strong communication skills with the ability to interface directly with customer, engineering and executive teams.
* Comfortable working independently in globally distributed environments.
* Willingness to travel as required (up to 25%).
* Ability to lift up to 75 pounds when supporting hardware installations.
Preferred Qualifications
* Experience with AI/ML workflows, GPU-accelerated computing, or large-scale data pipelines.
* Familiarity with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK).
* Understanding of CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code methodologies.
* Project management or DevOps certification (e.g., PMP, CKA, AWS Solutions Architect) is a plus.
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