Payrate: $50.00 - $65.00/hr.

Summary:
The Company is seeking a professional to provide an engagement supporting our High Performance Computing (HPC) and Electronic Design Automation (EDA) infrastructure team. This role will work directly within the IT Datacenter (ITDC) organization and is expected to operate independently at a senior level with minimal ramp-up time. The ideal candidate brings strong hands-on experience with Linux HPC environments, infrastructure automation, SLURM workload management, datacenter migration execution, and enterprise identity integration.

Responsibilities

Support and administer SLURM-based HPC compute environments, including partition configuration and migration planning.
Plan and execute HPC/EDA compute and storage infrastructure migrations across datacenters.
Develop migration strategies and evaluate implementation options, risks, dependencies, and operational tradeoffs.
Author formal Method of Procedure (MOP) documents and runbooks for infrastructure changes and service cutovers.
Coordinate cross-functionally with EDA/SPE teams, storage teams, and IDAM to deliver coordinated platform changes.
Verify storage volumes, application access, and service continuity following migrations or infrastructure changes.
Define HPC storage service tiers and gather performance and capacity requirements for EDA workloads.
Administer SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 12 and SLES 15 systems in a production HPC environment.
Build and maintain custom Linux OS images and installation media using Kiwi NG and related tooling.
Enable and maintain bare-metal provisioning workflows via RackN / Digital Rebar Provision for SLES and ESXi deployments add PXE.
Provision and configure VMware vSphere virtual machines for HPC service workloads.
Troubleshoot production issues in Linux HPC operational scripts, services, and system daemons.
Develop, maintain, and extend Ansible playbooks and roles for Linux system setup, authentication, and platform configuration.
Ensure multi-version Ansible playbook compatibility across SLES 12 and SLES 15.
Manage Git repositories and Artifactory artifact storage; migrate large binaries and configuration artifacts out of source control.
Contribute GitHub pull requests, conduct code reviews, and manage inner-source infrastructure repositories.
Drive production environment changes through change management workflows using ServiceNow.
Integrate and configure enterprise identity systems including Okta, Active Directory, LDAP, NIS, VAS, and SSSD for Linux/HPC environments.
Audit and reconcile Linux user and group identity data (UID/GID) across multiple directory and authentication domains.
Validate authentication methods and access behavior across HPC compute and storage environments.
Extend SSSD-based corporate authentication to new compute environments and author corresponding Ansible automation.
Assess and implement log management strategies, including evaluation of Splunk integration for HPC system logs.
Investigate and remediate operational issues in production Linux services (VNC, NIS, AutoFS, Zabbix, etc.).
Produce technical documentation, architecture diagrams, implementation guides, and end-user instructions in Confluence.

Qualifications

5 years of experience in a DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Linux Systems Engineering role.
Hands-on HPC cluster administration experience, including SLURM or equivalent workload managers.
Demonstrated experience supporting EDA or scientific computing environments.
Strong Ansible automation skills with production-grade playbook and role development.
Experience with bare-metal provisioning tools (RackN, Cobbler, or equivalent).
Proven ability to plan and execute datacenter or infrastructure migrations with minimal disruption.
Familiarity with enterprise Linux identity and authentication stacks (SSSD, LDAP, AD, NIS, Okta).
Experience with NetApp or comparable enterprise storage platforms in HPC contexts.
Ability to author formal technical documentation (MOPs, runbooks, architecture diagrams).
Strong written and verbal communication skills; capable of coordinating across multiple teams.

Skills

Experience with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 12 and/or 15 in an enterprise environment.
Familiarity with RackN / Digital Rebar Provision for bare-metal OS deployment.
Hands-on experience with Kiwi NG or similar tools for custom OS image creation.
Knowledge of VMware vSphere for HPC support VM provisioning.
Experience migrating configuration artifacts and binaries to Artifactory.
Background in semiconductor, storage, or high-tech manufacturing IT environments.

Pay Transparency: The typical base pay for this role across the U.S. is: $50.00 - $65.00 /hour. Non-exempt positions are eligible for overtime at a rate of 1.5 times the base hourly rate for all hours worked in excess of 40 in a work week, or as required by state or local law. Final offer amounts, within the base pay set forth above, are determined by factors including your relevant skills, education and experience. Full-time employees are eligible to select from different benefits packages. Packages may include medical, dental, and vision benefits, health savings accounts with qualified medical plan enrollment, 10 paid days off, 3 days paid bereavement leave, 401(k) plan participation with employer match, life and disability insurance, commuter benefits, dependent care flexible spending account, accident insurance, critical illness insurance, hospital indemnity insurance, accommodations and reimbursement for work travel, and discretionary performance or recognition bonus. Sick leave and mobile phone reimbursement provided based on state or local law.

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