Unspecified region
Resident Engineer
About this role
ROLE SUMMARY: The Resident Incident Engineer is responsible for maintaining the availability, performance, resilience, and operational readiness of DDN storage infrastructure deployed within a customer / NVIDIA Cloud Partner (NCP) environment. The role will initially support a mid-tier NCP deployment that is expected to grow into one of the largest storage environments in the region. The engineer will act as a trusted on-site technical resource, working closely with the customer’s infrastructure, platform, Kubernetes, networking, security, and operations teams.
The role requires hands-on expertise across DDN storage platforms, EXAScaler/Lustre, Linux, high-speed networking, data-centre infrastructure, Kubernetes, and the Container Storage Interface (CSI). The engineer will provide proactive operational support, incident response, problem management, capacity planning, performance optimization, and technical coordination with DDN Support and Engineering. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES • Provide on-site operational ownership for DDN storage systems and associated EXAScaler/Lustre environments.
• Monitor storage health, availability, capacity, performance, alerts, and system trends. • Respond to incidents, service requests, and operational events in accordance with agreed severity and response targets. • Lead technical triage, fault isolation, recovery, and root-cause analysis for storage, file-system, Linux, networking, and integration issues. • Coordinate with customer operations teams, DDN Support, Engineering, hardware vendors, and other stakeholders during major incidents.
• Maintain and troubleshoot EXAScaler/Lustre file systems, metadata services, storage targets, client connectivity, failover, and recovery procedures. • Support Kubernetes environments that consume DDN storage, including cluster integration, persistent volumes, storage classes, access modes, and workloadlevel storage troubleshooting. • Configure, validate, and troubleshoot CSI drivers and related Kubernetes storage components Investigate issues across the Kubernetes-to-storage path, including pods, nodes, kubelet, CSI controller and node plugins, APIs, mounts, permissions, networking, and backend storage.