Senior HPC Storage Engineer (HPC Storage)

Location: Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA

Company

Oak Ridge National Laboratory is a U.S. Department of Energy national laboratory focused on scientific breakthroughs and solutions for energy, environmental, and national security challenges.

What you will do

• Lead the architecture, design, modernization, and optimization of storage and supporting systems across classified HPC environments.
• Translate scientific and mission requirements into secure, scalable, resilient infrastructure solutions.
• Analyze storage performance, availability, scalability, data movement, and system reliability in mission-critical environments.
• Develop prototypes, automation, monitoring, metrics, and observability solutions using Python, Bash, Grafana, Nagios, and related tools.
• Lead troubleshooting and root-cause analysis, coordinate lifecycle planning, and resolve hardware and software issues with vendors and engineering teams.
• Advise on technical strategy, mentor staff, evaluate emerging HPC and AI/ML technologies, and shape infrastructure roadmaps.

Requirements

• BS degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, plus at least eight years of relevant experience; equivalent education, experience, and certifications may be considered.
• At least five years of experience supporting Intelligence Community environments or missions.
• Ability to independently lead complex technical efforts and translate requirements into scalable infrastructure solutions.
• Current Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility and eligibility for Sensitive or Special Access Program information are required.
• Q Clearance with SCI must be obtained and maintained; pre-placement and random substance-abuse testing and possible polygraph testing apply.
• Experience with HPC storage, Linux engineering, high-performance networking, automation, and infrastructure supporting data-intensive workloads.

Nice to have

• Experience with Lustre, IBM Storage Scale/GPFS, BeeGFS, or similar parallel file systems.
• Experience with InfiniBand, TCP/IP, Fibre Channel, tiered storage, data lifecycle management, resiliency, and performance optimization.
• Experience with Ansible, Git-based workflows, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, or modern DevOps practices.
• Experience designing infrastructure for HPC, AI/ML, GPU computing, or other data-intensive workloads.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaboration with scientists, researchers, HPC engineers, cybersecurity professionals, technical leaders, vendors, and mission partners.
• Medical, prescription, dental, vision, retirement, pension, life insurance, and disability benefits.
• Vacation, holidays, parental leave, flexible spending and health savings accounts, wellness programs, and educational assistance.
• On-site fitness, banking, and cafeteria facilities, plus employee discounts and relocation assistance.
• Participation in a planned maintenance schedule and on-call rotation for mission-critical systems.

Hiring process

• The position remains open for at least five days and closes when a qualified candidate is identified or hired.
• Employment requires successful completion of applicable clearance, credentialing, substance-abuse testing, and eligibility procedures.