[Remote] HPC Platform Engineer

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. X-ISS delivers managed services and project expertise for customers operating complex, large-scale High-Performance Computing environments. The HPC Platform Engineer will support, optimize, automate, and improve hybrid on-premise and cloud Linux/HPC platforms while collaborating with customers and engineering teams on architecture, reliability, observability, and infrastructure operations.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate closely with other platform engineers as well as users, tailoring hybrid on-premise and cloud HPC infrastructure to meet their unique compute and storage needs
• Manage, update, and optimize HPC resources across on-premise clusters and cloud environments, looking for opportunities for simplification and cost optimization while performing regular updates, firmware maintenance, and security patches
• Support infrastructure changes which will maintain and achieve set standards for platform uptime across bare-metal and cloud-hosted resources
• Support architecture and design decisions — including cluster topology, scheduler configuration, storage architecture, and cloud-bursting strategy — by providing technical expertise and working collaboratively with the wider team to identify the right solutions for our customers
• Develop and maintain reliable and scalable infrastructure, automating provisioning end-to-end across on-premise and cloud environments, to support the continuous and safe delivery of software solutions that meet the evolving needs of our users
• Ensure system observability and reliability by implementing monitoring tools spanning compute, network, and storage layers, and establishing clear escalation mechanisms for incident response, ensuring systems meet operational performance standards

Skills

• • A bachelor's degree, or equivalent qualification, in computer science
• • A minimum of six years' professional experience implementing and supporting Linux server solutions
• • Experience using service desk or ticketing systems to a high standard
• • Exceptional troubleshooting skills across Linux servers and networking within large-scale environments, with the ability to work through interconnected hardware, network and software components across on-premise and cloud infrastructure to identify and resolve root causes
• • Expertise in HPC platform engineering, with practical experience deploying, automating, and maintaining compute infrastructure in both on-premise and cloud environments, including containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and Linux/Rocky 8 administration
• • Hands-on experience with HPC job scheduling and workload management (e.g., Slurm, PBS Pro, or LSF), and automating bare-metal cluster provisioning (e.g., Ansible, xCAT, Warewulf, or Foreman/Cobbler) alongside equivalent automation in cloud environments
• • Experience supporting and utilizing continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, enabling seamless, repeatable deployments across hybrid on-premise and cloud infrastructure
• • Proficient programming skills in scripting and automation languages, such as bash or Python, and infrastructure-as-code tooling (e.g., Ansible or Terraform), for automating operational tasks, system configuration, and cluster provisioning at scale
• • Familiarity with core HPC infrastructure components, including parallel file systems (e.g., Lustre, GPFS/Spectrum Scale, or BeeGFS), high-speed interconnects (InfiniBand/RDMA), and environment/module management (e.g., Lmod, Spack, or EasyBuild)
• • Strong interpersonal and communication skills to effectively engage and collaborate with both technical and non-technical team members, ensuring clarity and understanding across all collaborators
• • Familiarity with databases, including deployment, optimization, and automation. MySQL experience preferred
• • Linux and/or networking certifications
• • Hands-on experience with cloud and on-premise infrastructure monitoring and observability tools (e.g., Prometheus/Grafana alongside cloud-native monitoring stacks), to ensure system observability and performance tracking
• Familiarity with GitLab and DevOps pipelines is a plus
• • Experience with GPU-accelerated computing environments, including NVIDIA drivers, CUDA, and GPU scheduling, is a plus

Benefits

• 401k matching
• Health, Vision, Dental, Life and Supplemental Insurance
• HSA
• Tuition reimbursement

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