My client is an exciting growing tech company focused on building cloud platform services for AI R&D and the deeptech community.
They are in the scale-up phase, already generating very good revenue plus significant investment – and with very experienced and successful tech entrepreneurs involved, this company has an exciting future
They are looking to hire an experienced HPC/Storage Architect Engineer to take a lead role with responsibility for the design, deployment and maintenance of high-performance storage systems for their AI and data-driven workloads.
The successful candidate will combine deep experience architecting and managing distributed, cloud, and tiered storage solutions with strong Linux and automation skills.
This role will involve –
Design, implement, and maintain storage platforms that support large-scale AI and data pipelines
Manage distributed storage systems such as Ceph, Lustre, or BeeGFS.
Oversee tiered storage architectures, optimizing data movement across high-performance, object, and archival tiers.
Ensure data integrity, availability, and security across on-premises and cloud environments.
Develop automation and monitoring tools (using Python, Bash or similar – Terraform/OpenTofu, Ansible)
Manage and secure container images and related storage used for AI and ML workloads.
Integrate storage systems with public cloud services (AWS, Azure, GCP) and hybrid environments.
Troubleshoot complex storage and data flow issues, collaborating closely with AI platform and infrastructure teams.
Contribute to ongoing architecture improvements, performance tuning, and capacity planning.
As well as expertise in the above, a strong Linux system admin background is important.
Any knowledge in these areas would also be really useful:
Knowledge of GPU compute environments or AI training infrastructure.
Experience with monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, etc.).
Contributions to open-source storage, data management, or infrastructure projects.F
Familiarity with object storage systems (S3, RADOS Gateway, MinIO, etc.).
This is a great opportunity to play a very visible and pivotal role in achieving success for this company
This is a hybrid role. Offices in Cambridge
If this sounds of interest, or you have any questions, please contact Matt Andrews at IC Resources