Title: Senior Systems & Storage Engineer

Location: Sydney CBD (hybrid). Adelaide also considered.

Salary: Up to $145,000 super

Look after one of the largest research data platforms in Australia

Intersect is a not-for-profit owned by Australian universities, and part of the country’s research infrastructure. Its storage, cloud and data platforms support research into bushfire modelling, NSW air-quality forecasting, koala conservation, agriculture and solar.

We’re looking for a Senior Systems & Storage Engineer to look after a 42 PB tiered disk-and-tape archive, built to grow past 120 PB. It sits alongside high-speed Lustre on VAST storage that feeds HPC workloads. Most corporate settings in Australia never get past a few petabytes.

You don’t need Versity experience. If you understand hierarchical storage management (HSM), you can learn the product on the job.

What you’ll do
Run and troubleshoot multi-petabyte disk and tape storage
Manage HSM policy: tiering, caching, recall and hydration
Plan capacity, and look after replication, data protection and DR
Integrate storage with HPC, cloud and container platforms
Automate everything with Ansible, since all infrastructure is managed as code
Work with vendors, researchers and university stakeholders





What you’ll bring
A solid understanding of HSM or tiered storage (front-end cache, nearline/tape, recall). Experience with Versity, DMF, HPSS, SAM-QFS, Spectrum Archive, StorNext, or cloud tiering like AWS Glacier all counts.
Solid Linux administration (SLES, Ubuntu, Red Hat), including HA and clustering
Ansible or other infrastructure-as-code experience
Australian citizenship or PR (sponsorship isn’t available)

Bonus points
HPC experience from a university, CSIRO or research institute
Lustre, GPFS, Weka, VAST, InfiniBand
Petabyte-scale environments
Zabbix, Prometheus, Grafana

Why Intersect
No on-call roster. Service levels are business hours only.
Adaptable hybrid working with a family-friendly culture
Not-for-profit salary packaging, a $75/month tech allowance, and gifted leave days over Christmas when Intersect meets budget
Purpose: your work supports research that matters
Small, social team. Variety, rare technology, Thursday drinks and quarterly team events.

This is a retained search led by Georgia Hart at nDeva. Apply here or message me for a confidential chat.

Please get in touch even if you don’t tick every box.

📌 Senior Storage & System Engineer Sydney
🏢 Intersect
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