Qarik Overview
Qarik Group, LLC is a technology consulting firm focused on combining senior-level expertise and experience to help clients see further and go faster, solving big business problems.
We have a saying at Qarik that sums up our culture: ‘Greatness grows greatness.’ It reflects how we support each other by sharing expertise, experience and opportunity. One person’s insight smooths the way for another to succeed. And it’s not just about supporting each other. It’s as much about how we help our client's businesses thrive. By using what we collectively know and mashing ideas together, breathtaking things happen. Not least of which is how your career’s journey can go further and faster than you ever imagined possible. So, if you have greatness to give, we've got the perfect place to help it grow.
We work “with” our clients, not "for" them. We embrace agile instead of deliverables and milestones - establish a vision, create theme based roadmap and then execute. We work in the trenches with client's engineers to learn from each other's experiences and capabilities. We frequently have a stake in their success, ensuring that everyone is aiming towards the same goals.
We check badges and egos at the door and bring incredible people together to achieve great outcomes. This allows people to bring their whole person to contribute to, and be part of the team. You should never feel like you have to be somebody else.
Overview of the Role
We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Cloud Storage Technical Lead engineer to join our dynamic team, focusing on the development of scalable file storage solutions for cloud based High Performance Computing (HPC) platforms. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in both traditional parallel filesystems and modern cloud-native storage solutions such as S3, ElastiCache and File Cache. You should also have extensive experience with AWS, infrastructure as code, and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.
As a Cloud Storage Technical Lead, you will play a crucial role in designing, building, and maintaining the storage infrastructure that supports our cutting-edge life sciences research initiatives. You will collaborate with computational scientists and other engineers to ensure that our platform is robust, scalable, and capable of handling complex computational workloads. You will also ensure our solutions are implemented securely, with appropriate controls to allow safe storage of sensitive data. You will collaborate with additional cloud platform technical and product leads to ensure your solutions align with other emerging infrastructure capabilities being developed concurrently for the R&D organization.
Fully remote and offshore candidates are welcome however this role requires working during US west coast standard working hours (9-5pm PST/PDT).