Principal Storage Architect & Team Lead (Research & HPC Data Platforms)

**Job Description**

**Reports to:** Executive Director of Research Computing

**Please note:** Visa Sponsorship is not provided for this position.

**The Opportunity**
Stanford University operates one of the most sophisticated academic storage ecosystems in the world, with aggregate capacity exceeding 100PB and 5 billion files. We are seeking a world-class technical leader to oversee our primary research storage platforms. These services span the gamut from the 15PB flash-based Lustre scratch filesystem on our Sherlock HPC cluster to archival storage on the Elm HSM platform.

**Why Stanford?** You aren't just managing a storage cluster; you are architecting a data and storage ecosystem that supports Nobel-caliber research across all disciplines.

**Primary Responsibilities**

+ **Technical Leadership:** Lead and mentor a specialized team of systems engineers, balancing high-level architectural design with hands-on operations and ...