Senior Storage Engineer
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About Graphcore
At Graphcore were building the future of AI compute.
Were a team of semiconductor software and AI experts with deep experience in creating the complete AI compute stack - from silicon and software to infrastructure at datacenter scale.
As part of the SoftBank Group backed by significant long-term investment we are delivering key technology into the fast-growing SoftBank AI meet the vast and exciting AI opportunity Graphcore is expanding its teams around the are bringing together the brightest minds to solve the toughest problems in a place where everyone has the opportunity to make an impact on the company our products and the future of artificial intelligence.
Job Summary
We are seeking a Storage Engineer to be responsible for the architecture performance and management of the storage solutions that power our demanding EDA and HPC workloads. You will be the expert on all things storage from high-performance parallel file systems to object storage and backup/recovery and corporate storage solutions. Your primary goal is to provide a resilient scalable and cost-effective storage platform that meets the requirements of our chip design and software development workflows.
The Team
Youll be joining a multidisciplinary team with strong technical skills and a very supportive culture. We work closely together and regularly share knowledge and your skills will make a direct impact on our business. Its an exciting and pivotal moment for us right now with plenty of new projects ahead. If youre looking to solve interesting problems and see your work deliver real-world results this is the team for you.
Responsibilities and Duties
- Manage and maintain on-premises storage platforms including Linux-based NFS systems (e.g. ZFS) and enterprise storage arrays such as NetApp or Pure for both Corporate and Engineering workloads.
- Manage backup and recovery systems (e.g. Rubrik Cohesity) ensuring reliable data protection retention and tested restore processes.
- Deploy and optimise scale-out or high-performance storage technologies such as Ceph Lustre GPFS or WEKA to support EDA and HPC workloads.
- Automate storage configuration provisioning and operational workflows.
- Experience of managing storage in cloud environments such as AWS for engineering or backup purposes
- Capacity planning performance tuning monitoring incident response and ongoing lifecycle management of storage services.
- Work with vendors on hardware evaluation procurement updates and support cases.
Candidate Profile
Essential:
- 5 years of experience in storage administration or engineering with at least 3 years focused on cloud storage solutions in AWS
- Hands on experience with enterprise storage platforms: NetApp ONTAP Pure DDN Dell/EMC etc.
- Deep expertise in storage services particularly NFS CIFS S3 and EBS
- Hands-on experience with parallel or scale out file systems (Ceph Lustre WEKA GPFS etc.) in an HPC or high-throughput environment
- Proven experience with backup recovery and DR strategies in a large-scale environment
- Proficiency with using automation to deliver consistent storage configuration and deployment (Ansible Terraform Python or similar)
- Deep knowledge of providing storage to Virtualisation infrastructure
- Good troubleshooting skills across storage network and compute boundaries.
Desirable:
- Experience in the semiconductor industry and familiarity with the storage demands of EDA workloads
- Understanding of high-speed networking relevant to storage (10/25/40/100GbE NFSv4.1 RDMA).
- Familiarity with observability tools such as Prometheus Grafana or Splunk.
- Experience of working with source control management tools such as Git.
Benefits
In addition to a competitive salary Graphcore offers flexible working a generous annual leave policy private medical insurance and health cash plan a dental plan pension (matched up to 5%) life assurance and income protection. We have a generous parental leave policy and an employee assistance programme (which includes health mental wellbeing and bereavement support). We offer a range of healthy food and snacks at our central Bristol office and have our own barista bar! We welcome people of different backgrounds and experiences; were committed to building an inclusive work environment that makes Graphcore a great home for everyone. We offer an equal opportunity process and understand that there are visible and invisible differences in all of us. We can provide a flexible approach to interview and encourage you to chat to us if you require any reasonable adjustments.
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