Sandia National Laboratories is the nation’s premier science and engineering lab for national security and technology innovation, and they are seeking a Secure Platform Engineer and Scientific Software Support Engineer to support the Advanced Simulation and Computing program. This role involves collaborating with teams to develop and maintain secure developer environments and infrastructure while ensuring cybersecurity compliance and delivering efficient solutions.
Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with teams to define secure computing requirements
- Develop, test, and deploy secure HPC environments and infrastructure
- Troubleshoot and optimize software and platform configurations
- Ensure cybersecurity compliance and best practices
- Integrate AI/ML workflows into HPC platforms
- Communicate with stakeholders to prioritize and update on progress
- Enhance DevSecOps processes for improved security and performance
- Provide responsive support to ASC scientific and engineering users
Requirements:
- A Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline and five (5) years of directly relevant experience, or an equivalent combination of directly relevant education and engineering or scientific experience that demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and ability to perform independent research and development
- Ability to obtain and maintain DOE Q security clearance
- Graduate degree in Computer Science or a highly related field where an independent research project was a graduation requirement (e.g., independent project, thesis, or dissertation)
- Demonstrated software development skills and familiarity with modern software development practices and tools (e.g., Agile)
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, ability to work effectively in multidisciplinary teams, and a passion to improve and expand technical skills
- Familiarity with scientific and research software development, including user support
- Experience with various software development support tools such as Jira, Gitlab, Confluence, MS Teams, etc
- Proficient with CI/CD infrastructure, identity and access management, containerization, and orchestration platforms such as OpenShift/Kubernetes
- Experience with CFD/FEA codes for engineering analysis activities
- Experience developing infrastructure for AI systems
- Active Q security Clearance