Storage Architect

Technology Landscape Analysis

You research and evaluate the storage technology landscape across commercial vendors, cloud storage providers, and open-source distributed file systems. Directly engage with vendors, identifying and assessing candidate solutions. Develop comparative assessments that inform architecture decisions and support acquisitions.

Design Leadership

Lead the technical design and architectural planning for a multi-tiered, widely distributed storage system that meets varied scientific data needs. The varied scientific data needs include incorporating storage reliability, immutability, data integrity, and performance principles across the facility's distributed locations.

Performance and Cost Modeling

Develop and validate models to predict storage performance, capacity requirements, and total cost of ownership at scale. Must define Key Performance Parameters (KPPs) and benchmarking strategies that will govern storage system selection and validation.

Metrics and Observability

Establish the foundation for storage system observability, defining initial SLOs and SLIs for storage performance and availability. Architect and prototype monitoring and alerting solutions that will support both the design validation phase and future facility operations.

Storage Team Framework

Define the operational framework and staffing plans for the future Storage team, which will be responsible for the lifecycle management of the entire storage infrastructure.

Experience Required

• 10 or more years IT infrastructure experience

Education

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other relevant information technology
• Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other relevant information technology (preferred)

Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities

• Deep expertise in HPC, enterprise and emerging storage technologies including SAN, NAS, object storage, cloud storage, distributed file systems, parallel file systems and tape libraries
• Hands-on experience designing and deploying solutions at scale
• Deep understanding of storage networking protocols and interconnects including Fibre Channel, iSCSI, NVMe-oF, and high-speed data transfer technologies relevant to high-throughput scientific data workflows
• Evaluating and deploying commercial high-performance storage solutions (e.g. VAST, Weka, IBM Spectrum Scale) and open-source distributed file systems (e.g. Ceph, Lustre, DAOS, GlusterFS) against performance, reliability, and cost requirements
• Experience designing multi-tiered, highly available, and resilient storage architectures, including data staging, archival, and immutability strategies across distributed locations
• Experience developing storage performance models, capacity planning frameworks, and total cost of ownership analyses at facility scale
• Familiarity with data integrity, encryption, and compliance requirements including FAIR data principles, data retention policies, and relevant federal data management standards (preferred)
• Experience leading small teams (preferred)

About Jefferson Lab

Join a community with a common purpose of solving the most challenging scientific and engineering problems of our time. The Jefferson Lab campus is located in southeastern Virginia amidst a vibrant and growing technology community. A career at Jefferson Lab is more than a job. You will be part of "big science" and work alongside top scientists and engineers from around the world unlocking the secrets of our visible universe. Managed by SURATech, LLC, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility is entering an exciting period of mission growth and is seeking new team members ready to apply their skills and passion to have an impact. You could call it work, or you could call it a mission. We call it a challenge. We do things that will change the world.

Total Rewards at Jefferson Lab

Benefits at Jefferson Lab include, but are not limited to: Medical, Dental, and Vision Care Plans Flexible Spending Accounts Paid Time-off and Leave Programs (Paid Parental, vacation, holidays, and sick leave) 401(k) Plan – 9% Lab Contribution; 100% vested Flexible Work Arrangements (Remote & Alternate Work Schedules available) Tuition Assistance, Training and Professional Development Programs Live near the waterways of the Chesapeake Bay region with access to nearby beaches, mountains, and all major metropolitan centers on the East Coast

About SURATech, LLC

SURATech, LLC manages and operates the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Lab). SURATech is an Equal Opportunity Employer. SURATech is committed to providing reasonable accommodation for people with disabilities (unless doing so will result in an undue hardship). If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please send an e-mail to recruiting@jlab.org or contact Human Resources by calling (757) 269-7100 and selecting option 1 between 8 am – 5 pm EST to provide the nature of your request.