Engineer, Storage and Data Protection (AI/HPC)

Location: Hybrid in Gurugram, Haryana, Bangalore, or Hyderabad, India

Company

hirify.global's Managed Services – MS Infrastructure department provides enterprise infrastructure operations and support for managed services customers.

What you will do

• Provide operational support for incident, problem, and change management activities.
• Administer and tune distributed and parallel filesystems, including Lustre, GPFS, BeeGFS, Ceph, Weka, and Vast.
• Optimize storage performance, throughput, metadata operations, and data locality for AI training and inference workloads.
• Build and maintain automation for provisioning, monitoring, alerting, quota management, and storage lifecycle operations.
• Support data ingest, replication, caching, tiering, archiving, and data protection workflows.
• Investigate complex storage, Linux, network, and I/O issues; coordinate with technical teams, customers, vendors, infrastructure, platform, and research teams.
• Evaluate storage architectures for scalability, resilience, and cost efficiency, maintain documentation, and participate in an on-call rotation.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience with HPC, AI infrastructure, or large-scale storage engineering.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Information Systems or a related field.
• Strong Linux systems administration experience and hands-on experience configuring, managing, and tuning distributed or parallel filesystems.
• Knowledge of HPC schedulers such as Slurm and/or container platforms such as Kubernetes, plus familiarity with InfiniBand or RDMA.
• Understanding of replication, backup strategies, and disaster recovery in HPC environments, including machine learning or data science workflows.
• Managed Services or consulting experience, strong customer service, problem-solving, and communication skills.

Nice to have

• Experience supporting GPU clusters, AI/ML workflows, multi-petabyte environments, caching architectures, or storage isolation in multi-tenant systems.
• Familiarity with object storage such as S3, MinIO, or Ceph Object Gateway.
• Experience with Terraform, Ansible, Helm, GitOps, Prometheus, or Grafana.
• Scripting or programming experience with Python and Bash.
• Related storage certifications.