Job Title: Linux Storage Engineer
Posted by: SLAC/Stanford on Apr 21, 2024
Location:
Menlo Park , CAJob Description:
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Would you like to enable groundbreaking research through innovative scientific computing? Do you enjoy learning and applying leading-edge technologies? SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory seeks a talented storage engineer to provide multi-petabyte Object and POSIX solutions required for massive scale analytics.
SLAC is one of the world's premier research laboratories, with leading capabilities in photon science, accelerator physics, high energy physics (HEP), and energy sciences. Our Scientific Computing Systems (SCS) department is responsible for the scalable high-throughput computing infrastructure that enables our major facilities and experiments. These include: Rubin Observatory, the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS), CryoEM and the LHC ATLAS detector at CERN.
You must be a pragmatic and skillful storage specialist who will blend hardware and software solutions to deliver the best outcomes for our scientists. A broad understanding of technology and the implications of the impact of design decisions will be important, as will the ability to communicate clearly both within our team and with our partners.
You will play a critical role in designing, deploying and supporting the storage system required by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory. This system will eventually hold exabytes of data and require terabit/sec aggregate transfer speeds. Rubin is a next-generation astronomical facility currently under construction in Chile, with staff based at SLAC. Rubin Observatory will undertake the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) which will be one of the largest and most comprehensive astronomy surveys of its kind. Rubin will bring countless discoveries in almost every area of modern astronomical research. We encourage free-thinking open dialog and provide opportunities to explore and implement new technologies and ideas. There is huge potential for career growth. High performance computing is recognized as a SLAC core competency.
Given the nature of this position, SLAC is open to on-site and hybrid work options.
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, operate and manage 500+PB of disk storage and 1+EB of tape storage Investigate new storage technologies through research, collaboration with peers, and participation in standards organizations, industry groups, conferences, etc. 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 Provide 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 Expertise in Erasure Coding, RAID, fault tolerant/HA storage architectures Expertise in deploying and managing object storage software (Ceph, MinIO, or similar) Expertise in any/all of: Lustre, WekaIO, GPFS, ZFS, XFS, Santricity, MegaRAID Expertise with storage hardware/arrays (e.g., Dell, Supermicro, DDN, Seagate, NetApp) Proficient with VMware or other leading virtualization platforms Proficient with general Unix administration, configuration management and monitoring Understanding of high performance networking (including 100GbE+) Proficient with programming in python and/or ruby and bash 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 (Oracle STK, IBM, and/or Spectra Logic) Expertise in HPSS, TSM/Spectrum Protect, and/or TiBS 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 accommodation to any employee with a disability who requires accommodation 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 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 Subject to and expected to comply with all applicable 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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Classification Title: System Administrator 3
Grade: K
Job code: 4833
Duration: Regular Continuing
The expected pay range for this position is $119,000 to $150,000 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.
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About SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
As one of 17 Department of Energy national labs, SLAC pushes the frontiers of human knowledge and drives discoveries that benefit humankind. We invent the tools that make those discoveries possible and share them with researchers all over the world. X-rays Reveal the Atomic World Our 2-mile-long particle accelerator is the lab’s backbone. Once the scene of major discoveries in particle physics, today it generates the world’s brightest X-rays for our revolutionary X-ray laser, the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS). Thousands of researchers come to SLAC to use LCLS and the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource to probe matter in atomic detail. These X-ray studies help scientists understand the fundamental workings of nature and find solutions to real-world problems. Fundamental Science, Practical Benefits When researchers delve into basic details of the world around us, practical benefits often follow. This is true of research at SLAC. In chemistry, “molecular movies” made with our X-ray laser are capturing all the tiny steps of chemical reactions for the first time. This new understanding will help improve reactions that give us fuels, fertilizers and a host of other products. In biology, X-rays reveal how proteins – one of the key molecules of life – function in our bodies and in nature. This research has contributed to the development of medications for melanoma, flu and HIV and is aiding the fight against COVID-19, Ebola, high blood pressure and other ills. SLAC studies of exotic materials with quirky traits could have a profound impact on society, although it may be far in the future. Meanwhile, scientists use our X-ray beams for experiments to improve materials for computer chips, jet planes, refinery operations and “smart windows” that automatically adjust the amount of light coming in, to name a few.Even the accelerator technology developed for basic physics experiments has had a huge impact in medicine and industry, where it shrinks tumors, sterilizes medical supplies and hardens materials, among many other things. SLAC researchers are working to make accelerators much smaller and cheaper so they can accomplish even more. Solving Energy Challenges Many threads of SLAC research come together in the quest for clean, sustainable energy sources. We study how plants make energy from sunlight with an eye to doing the same, and customize chemical reactions for generating clean fuels. Our specialized X-ray equipment allows scientists to watch batteries, solar cells and fuel cells in operation, a crucial step in improving how they work. An Eye on the Cosmos SLAC started more than 50 years ago as a place to discover fundamental particles and forces. Today, our researchers still explore the universe at the largest and smallest scales. At the tiniest scale, we help search for new particles and forces at the Large Hadron Collider in Europe, where the Higgs boson was discovered. At the most sweeping scale, we’re building the world’s biggest digital camera for the widest, deepest survey of the night sky ever undertaken. Our longstanding expertise in building particle detectors is being put to use in experiments that search for dark matter and dark energy, probe the secrets of ghostly neutrinos, look for signs of cosmic inflation and capture high-energy particles from the most violent events in the universe. Key Partnerships Stanford University operates SLAC for the DOE Office of Science. Our five joint research centers and facilities with Stanford focus on cosmology and astrophysics, materials and energy science, catalysis, ultrafast science and cryogenic electron microscopy. SLAC’s location in Silicon Valley and our connections with DOE, Stanford and other leading research centers speed our progress. We also look for ways to work with industry to solve problems and spread the benefits of research out into society.