Remote Cloud Storage Technical Lead (Contract)

Description:

• Qarik Group, LLC is a technology consulting firm that focuses on solving big business problems by combining senior-level expertise and experience.
• The company promotes a culture of collaboration and support, emphasizing that "Greatness grows greatness."
• The Cloud Storage Technical Lead will develop scalable file storage solutions for cloud-based High Performance Computing (HPC) platforms.
• The ideal candidate should have a strong background in traditional parallel filesystems and modern cloud-native storage solutions such as S3, ElastiCache, and File Cache.
• Extensive experience with AWS, infrastructure as code, and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines is required.
• The role involves designing, building, and maintaining storage infrastructure for life sciences research initiatives.
• Collaboration with computational scientists and engineers is essential to ensure the platform is robust and scalable.
• The position requires working during US west coast standard working hours (9-5pm PST/PDT) and is open to fully remote and offshore candidates.

Requirements:

• A deep understanding of AWS services and best practices for building scalable, secure, and cost-effective cloud environments is required.
• Proven experience with DevOps practices, including infrastructure as code (Terraform, Ansible), continuous integration, and continuous deployment (GitLab CI/CD) is necessary.
• Prior experience integrating storage with identity and access management solutions such as Active Directory and IAM Identity Center is essential.
• Proficiency with Git and experience managing code repositories is required.
• Expert-level proficiency with POSIX file system semantics and I/O profiling for high performance/high throughput workloads is necessary.
• Candidates must have expert-level proficiency in at least one high performance/parallel filesystem technology such as Weka, Lustre, GPFS, CEPH, or JuiceFS.
• High proficiency with Amazon S3 object storage and Network File System (NFS) semantics is required.
• Knowledge of security best practices in cloud environments and experience implementing them is essential.
• Excellent communication skills to share architecture plans, designs, risks, and implementation with various stakeholders are required.

Benefits:

• Qarik offers a competitive and comprehensive employee compensation and benefits package.
• The company is an Equal Opportunity employer, ensuring all qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without discrimination.