Storage Engineer

At IMC, technology is at the core of everything we do and the way we build and maintain our storage infrastructure is key to our success globally. Our Storage Engineering team scales our storage infrastructure to support growing data volumes and multiple global research initiatives, ensures seamless performance through continuous tuning and capacity planning, and integrates emerging technologies to stay competitive. As a Storage Engineer you will also strengthen our global team by providing expert support, balancing workloads across regions, and ensuring our systems can handle current and future storage demands efficiently. 

This role offers a unique chance to work on cutting-edge, large-scale storage systems in a fast-paced, high-performance environment where your expertise directly impacts critical business outcomes. A place where you will collaborate with a world-class team, tackle complex technical challenges using advanced technologies and are able to shape the architecture of a growing, data-intensive organisation. We love to work with people who care about technical excellence, innovation, and collaboration, professional development, and the opportunity to work in a truly rewarding and intellectually stimulating environment.

Your Core Responsibilities: 

Senior IMC engineers started specialising on our Storage efforts and have a clear plan in place to make the most out of our storage capacities now and in the future. It is now up to you to help us reach the next levels. You will:

• Design, deploy, and manage our global storage platform, ensuring high performance, massive scalability, reliability, and future-proof solutions
• Collaborate with cross-functional research and engineering teams, enabling them to leverage high-performance storage solutions, optimize data workflows, and accelerate computational workloads across global infrastructures
• Diagnose and resolve complex storage, linux, and networking challenges in a fast-paced environment
• Integrate storage systems with distributed computing clusters, ensuring seamless compatibility with hardware and software across multiple locations
• Participate in ‘follow-the-sun’ support, responding proactively to critical storage issues and ensuring continuous uptime for our operations across the globe.

Your Skills and Experience: 

• 5+ years of experience in system storage architecture, system design within a large-scale compute environment
• Storage system design and optimisation with systems like Lustre, GPFS, S3, BeeGFS, Weka, Ceph, Vast, PowerScale, DDN, MinIO
• Strong Linux Engineering skills, including bare-metal
• Understanding of the implementation of storage stack from the kernel to user space (including file systems, block storage, I/O schedulers, VFS)
• Storage benchmarking and performance tuning, with experience analyzing throughput, latency, IOPS, and workload-specific optimisations
• Ability to manage large-scale, performance-critical environments, including capacity planning, scaling, and optimisation
• Knowledge of hardware components critical to storage systems, including NVMe, CPU/GPU/xPU architectures, PCIe, power utilisation, NIC (eth/ib), PMEM, SCM, RedFish and how they impact performance and scalability
• Proficiency in programming with languages such as Rust, Python, Go, or Bash
• Nice to haves: Kubernetes, CSI, Slurm, AWS, GCP, HDFS, AI/ML frameworks, Prometheus and Terraform/Ansible
• Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to translate complex technical concepts for non-technical audiences.