High Performance Computer Engineer

We are seeking a skilled HPC Engineer to join our cloud infrastructure team, with a focus on supporting and optimizing high performance computing environments on AWS. You will play a key role in ensuring the health, performance, and scalability of HPC systems, including AWS ParallelCluster, SOCA, and DCV (Nice Desktop Cloud Visualization).

This role is ideal for someone with a strong background in HPC infrastructure, user support, and AWS-native services who thrives in a collaborative, high-impact environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Monitor and maintain the health, performance, and utilization of HPC and computational infrastructure on AWS.
• Troubleshoot and resolve binary-level issues impacting end users across HPC environments.
• Provide support for DCV (Desktop Cloud Visualization), addressing performance concerns, patch management, and version upgrades.
• Onboard new users in SOCA and ParallelCluster, integrating with Active Directory and shared file systems.
• Manage user migrations, ensuring seamless transitions across SOCA and ParallelCluster platforms.
• Diagnose and remediate file system issues across shared storage environments.
• Administer and maintain Slurm workload manager configurations, policies, and upgrades.
• Configure, update, and support AWS ParallelCluster environments to ensure system scalability and performance.

Qualifications

Required:

• 5-10+ years of experience in HPC environments, preferably on AWS.
• Strong experience with AWS ParallelCluster, SOCA, and DCV.
• Hands-on experience managing Slurm workload manager in a production HPC environment.
• Solid understanding of Linux administration, distributed file systems (e.g., Lustre, EFS, FSx), and Active Directory integration.
• Experience troubleshooting binary-level application issues and user environment problems.
• Familiarity with patch management, version upgrades, and system monitoring tools.

Preferred:

• AWS certifications (e.g., Solutions Architect, SysOps Administrator)
• Scripting experience with Bash, Python, or similar
• Experience working with containerized HPC workloads (e.g., Singularity, Docker)

The actual salary offered is dependent on various factors including, but not limited to, location, the candidate’s combination of job-related knowledge, qualifications, skills, education, training, and experience

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