Senior IT Systems Engineer, Storage and Infrastructure
About The Position
Lead development of Relativity’s long-term enterprise storage architecture strategy to support telemetry, manufacturing, and test workloads at aerospace scale Design and implement next-generation file, unstructured, block, and object storage systems that balance performance, scalability, and cost efficiency Partner with IT Operations, DevOps, and Test Engineering to ensure infrastructure solutions integrate seamlessly with telemetry, simulation, and data-driven applications Provide and enhance coverage and shared ownership of virtualization, compute, and storage infrastructure across multiple datacenters and cloud platforms Drive innovation by evaluating and integrating emerging technologies such as NVMe-oF, software-defined storage, and single-namespace distributed systems Empower rocket test and launch success through architectural ingenuity
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in enterprise infrastructure or systems engineering with focus on, and technical ownership of, storage architecture and systems design
- Deep expertise in SAN/NAS, object storage, and storage networking (iSCSI, Fibre Channel, NVMe-oF)
- Proven experience managing virtualization and compute environments (e.g., VMware, KVM, Proxmox, or Hyper-V)
- Strong understanding of hybrid cloud and data-tiering strategies across on-prem and public cloud (Azure, GCP, or AWS)
- Demonstrated ability to architect and maintain large-scale, high-availability storage systems for mission-critical applications
- Experience with backup, disaster recovery, and data protection best practices in complex enterprise environments
Nice To Haves
- Familiarity with aerospace, manufacturing, or high-throughput data environments (telemetry, CAD, or test data)
- Experience implementing software-defined storage platforms such as Ceph, MinIO, or Red Hat ODF
- Background in container-native storage or Kubernetes persistent storage (CSI, Rook/Ceph, OpenEBS, Portworx)
- Exposure to single-namespace or global file systems and metadata-aware platforms
Responsibilities
- Lead development of Relativity’s long-term enterprise storage architecture strategy to support telemetry, manufacturing, and test workloads at aerospace scale
- Design and implement next-generation file, unstructured, block, and object storage systems that balance performance, scalability, and cost efficiency
- Partner with IT Operations, DevOps, and Test Engineering to ensure infrastructure solutions integrate seamlessly with telemetry, simulation, and data-driven applications
- Provide and enhance coverage and shared ownership of virtualization, compute, and storage infrastructure across multiple datacenters and cloud platforms
- Drive innovation by evaluating and integrating emerging technologies such as NVMe-oF, software-defined storage, and single-namespace distributed systems
- Empower rocket test and launch success through architectural ingenuity
Benefits
- Relativity Space offers competitive salary and equity, a generous PTO and sick leave policy, parental leave, an annual learning and development stipend, and more!
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
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