DevOps Engineer DDN Labs

This is an incredible opportunity to be part of a company that has been at the forefront of AI and high-performance data storage innovation for over two decades. DataDirect Networks (DDN) is a global market leader renowned for powering many of the worlds most demanding AI data centers in industries ranging from life sciences and healthcare to financial services autonomous cars Government academia research and manufacturing.

DDNs A3I solutions are transforming the landscape of AI infrastructure. IDC

The real differentiator is DDN. I never hesitate to recommend DDN. DDN is the de facto name for AI Storage in high performance environments - Marc Hamilton VP Solutions Architecture & Engineering NVIDIA

DDN is the global leader in AI and multi-cloud data management at scale. Our cutting-edge data intelligence platform is designed to accelerate AI workloads enabling organizations to extract maximum value from their data. With a proven track record of performance reliability and scalability DDN empowers businesses to tackle the most challenging AI and data-intensive workloads with confidence.

Our success is driven by our unwavering commitment to innovation customer-centricity and a team of passionate professionals who bring their expertise and dedication to every project. This is a chance to make a significant impact at a company that is shaping the future of AI and data management.

Our commitment to innovation customer success and market leadership makes this an exciting and rewarding role for a driven professional looking to make a lasting impact in the world of AI and data storage.

We are seeking a hands-on self-motivated DevOps Engineer to support and manage our dedicated benchmarking and ISV lab environments. This role will oversee physical and virtual infrastructure including Linux systems containers virtual machines networks and storage with occasional travel to Colorado Spring Office for onsite system access and maintenance.

You will be a key enabler for high-performance benchmarking AI workloads and ISV testing working closely with engineers and partners to ensure reliable and secure access to lab environments.

Key Responsibilities:

• Maintain and manage a fleet ofLinux-based servers including provisioning monitoring and patching
• Deploy and managevirtual machines (VMs)andcontainers(Docker/K8s) supporting diverse benchmarking workloads
• Configure and maintainnetwork infrastructure including IP address management routing VLANs and firewall rules
• Set up maintain and optimizestorage systems including object block and NFS
• Coordinate and manage secureuser accessto lab systems and software environments
• Collaborate with internal teams to supportISV testing performance benchmarks and development efforts
• Own lab health includinghardware lifecycle physical troubleshooting and environmental monitoring
• Travel toColorado lab siteas needed for hardware installation maintenance and validation
• Document procedures topologies and system configurations
• Support DevOps tooling and automation effortsusing CI/CD pipelines where applicable

Required Qualifications:

• 3 yearsof hands-on experience with:
• Linux system administration
  • Networking(routing subnets firewalls VLANs)
  • Virtualization(KVM VMware or similar)
  • Containers(Docker Podman Kubernetes)
  • Hardware troubleshooting(x86 servers switches cabling)
• Strong experience withshell scripting basic automation and infrastructure management tools
• Ability to workindependently troubleshoot complex systems and manage multiple priorities
• Hands-on withstorage constructs(RAID NFS LUNs object stores)
• Willingness and ability totravel to Coloradoas required
• Excellent documentation and communication skills

Nice to Have:

• Experience withbenchmarking environmentsorISV certification labs
• Experience withDevOps tooling(Ansible Terraform Jenkins GitLab CI/CD etc.)
• Exposure toAI/ML workloads HPC systems or GPU-based systems
• Hands-on withstorage or similar storage platforms

Salary Range for this role: $130000 - $160000

DDN has a very strong orientation towards these 4 characteristics and any successful employee will demonstrate these capabilities:

Self-Starter - Takes independent action to identify and solve problems. Seeks out relevant information needed to make decisions. Gets involved with new initiatives.

Success/Achievement Orientation - Delivers quality results consistently. Targets achieves (or exceeds) measurable results. Sets challenging goals focuses on critical priorities and is accountable.

Problem Solving - Recognizes problems and responds with a systematic assessment that identifies and addresses cause of issue. Practical realistic and resourceful.

Innovative - Builds and improves key business processes that enhance the effectiveness of DDN. Generates new ideas challenges the status quo and solves problems creatively.

DataDirect Networks Inc. is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion gender gender identity gender expression transgender sex stereotyping sexual orientation national origin disability protected Veteran Status or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal state or local law.

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