HPC Infrastructure & Cluster Engineer

D2 Technical Services•Springfield, VA

1d•$170,000 - $180,000•Onsite

About The Position

We are seeking an Infrastructure & Cluster Engineer to manage the administration, health, and performance of the foundational compute environment. In this role, you will be responsible for the end-to-end administration of a dedicated customer compute cluster. Your primary mission is to ensure a highly available, secure, and optimized hardware foundation. By maintaining a robust infrastructure, you will directly contribute to the critical technology integration and performance engineering efforts, ensuring a highly reliable platform for integrating and executing complex customer workloads.

Requirements

5+ years of experience in Linux systems administration and infrastructure management with a specific focus on high-performance computing environments
Expertise in managing bare-metal servers, enterprise storage arrays, and advanced network configurations (Experience with InfiniBand)
Strong proficiency with workload managers, job schedulers, and AI orchestration tools (e.g. Run:AI, SLURM)
Hands-on experience with enterprise container orchestration platforms, specifically OpenShift or Kubernetes
Experience writing automation and configuration scripts (e.g. Bash, Python) to streamline cluster maintenance
Proven ability to diagnose and resolve complex hardware, network, and OS-level issues
ACTIVE TS/SCI SECURITY CLEARANCE REQUIRED

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with parallel file systems and high-throughput storage architecture
Prior experience engineering or managing high-speed GPU-to-GPU communication topologies

Responsibilities

Manage the day-to-day operations of the customer compute cluster, including Linux operating system administration, hardware monitoring, patching, and system upgrades
Configure, maintain, and optimize workload management and orchestration platforms, utilizing Run:AI job scheduler to ensure efficient distribution of intensive AI/ML workloads across the cluster
Tune cluster performance at the hardware, operating system, and network levels to maximize compute efficiency and data throughput for customer workloads
Administer storage solutions and high-speed networking fabrics. Support the transition to and ongoing management of an InfiniBand GPU-to-GPU network infrastructure to minimize latency for distributed operations
Partner with technology integration teams to provision specific environments, dependencies, and container platforms, specifically leveraging Red Hat OpenShift, required for seamless customer model deployment
Ensure all infrastructure components remain compliant with federal security standards, implementing strict access controls and maintaining system accreditations