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Competitive Salary

Industry-leading compensation packages with performance bonuses and equity options.

Flexible Work

Remote-first culture with flexible hours and modern collaborative workspaces.

Learning & Development

Continuous learning opportunities with training budgets and conference attendance.

Health & Wellness

Comprehensive health insurance, wellness programs, and mental health support.

Team Culture

Collaborative environment with team building events and inclusive culture initiatives.

Work-Life Balance

Generous PTO policy, sabbatical opportunities, and family-friendly benefits.

Storage Engineer

Full-time

Chennai

4.0+ years

Position Storage Engineer Job Purpose Provide high‑throughput, consistent storage tiers (Scratch/HPS + Object) for large‑scale training data ingest, checkpoints, and inference artifacts.

Role Description Key Responsibilities Implementation Design/expand Lustre/BeeGFS HPS

- NVMe‑oF and Object (S3) tiers; align with AI dataflow and GDS. Establish namespace, OST/MDT layout, stripe/RAID policies; tiering for warm/cold datasets.

Operations

Capacity/performance planning; rebalance and failover testing; automate snapshots and checkpoint retention. Proactive detection of hot spots and metadata contention; schema for small‑file handling. Performance &
- Optimization Tune RDMA paths, page cache, IO schedulers; validate end‑to‑end I/O profiles for LLM training/inference. Reliability &
- Incident Lead P0/P1 critical incident response for enterprise-scale AI/ML storage infrastructure supporting NVIDIA GPU clusters, ensuring rapid service restoration and minimal impact to business-critical workloads.



Act as the storage SME during major incidents involving BeeGFS, Lustre, GPFS (IBM Spectrum Scale), NFS, NVMe-oF, Parallel File Systems, and Object Storage platforms. Perform deep-dive troubleshooting and resolution of storage performance degradation, metadata bottlenecks, I/O latency spikes, filesystem corruption, capacity exhaustion, and hardware failures. Conduct comprehensive Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for storage-related outages affecting GPU training, inferencing, AI pipelines, and high-performance computing (HPC) workloads. Backup/DR for critical datasets; test restore time and RPO/RTO regularly; corruption and split‑brain handling. Security &
- Compliance Multi‑tenant encryption at rest and in transit, POSIX/ACLs, S3 policies, retention/legal holds.

Experience &

• Educational Requirements Qualifications and Experience EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS: (degree, training, or certification required) BE/B-Tech or equivalent with Computer Science or Electronics &
- Communication RELEVANT EXPERIENCE: (no. of years of technical, functional, and/or leadership experience or specific exposure required) 4 - 7 years distributed storage; hands‑on with Lustre/BeeGFS/Ceph, NVMe‑oF, and S3 in GPU environments. Tools / Tech Lustre/BeeGFS tooling, Ceph
- GDS
- Perf tools (fio, fs‑digests)
- Prometheus/Grafana
- Ansible.

Certifications SNIA; vendor (NetApp/Dell/VAST) preferred. KPIs Sustained/peak throughput, metadata ops latency, job I/O stall rate, restore drill success. Work Mode onsite; participates in maintenance windows and DR exercises.

Our Culture & Values

Innovation First

We encourage creative thinking and bold ideas that push the boundaries of what's possible in analytics.

Cooperative Excellence

Our diverse teams work together to solve complex challenges and deliver exceptional results for our clients.

Continuous Growth

We invest in our people's development and provide opportunities to learn, grow, and advance their careers.

📌 Storage Engineer (Chennai)
🏢 Balbhas Business Sysnomics
📍 Chennai