HPC Systems Engineer (Linux)

Company

hirify.global provides specialized operations and infrastructure management for high-performance computing environments.

What you will do

• Operate and evolve Slurm configurations (partitions, QoS, fairshare) to balance throughput, priority, and cost.
• Administer Linux cluster nodes, including provisioning, patching, and lifecycle maintenance across heterogeneous hardware.
• Automate infrastructure using Ansible and standardize golden images and node deployment workflows.
• Troubleshoot performance and reliability issues across compute, storage (Lustre/GPFS/NFS), and networking.
• Implement monitoring and alerting via Prometheus and Grafana to define SLOs and on-call playbooks.
• Collaborate with research teams to translate workload needs into capacity plans and queue policies.

Requirements

• 3–7 years of experience administering production Linux systems in multi-node environments.
• Hands-on experience operating and supporting Slurm in an HPC or research/engineering compute setting.
• Strong Linux fundamentals: systemd, networking, storage, and security hardening.
• Proficiency in scripting with Bash and/or Python to build reliable operational tooling.
• Experience working in a ticketed/on-call environment with a strong focus on root-cause analysis.

Nice to have

• Experience with InfiniBand/RDMA and parallel filesystems (e.g., Lustre, BeeGFS).
• Knowledge of HPC containers such as Apptainer or Singularity.
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform) and Git-based change management.