HPC Infrastructure & Cluster Engineer
About The Position
Valiant Solutions is seeking an HPC Infrastructure & Cluster Engineer to support a program providing user-facing and data center services to an Intelligence Community customer. The team supports the design, engineering, procurement, implementation, operation, sustainment, and disposal of IT services across multiple networks, security domains, and locations worldwide. The engineer will administer and optimize a customer compute cluster, including Linux systems, hardware, storage, networking, workload scheduling, and container platforms. The role includes supporting an InfiniBand GPU-to-GPU network infrastructure, partnering with technology integration teams to provision environments and dependencies, and maintaining compliance with federal security standards and system accreditations. The position is located in Springfield, Virginia, and requires a TS/SCI clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain a CI Polygraph. A related bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education, professional training, or work/military experience is required, as is a DoD 8570 IAT Level II qualifying certification.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience in Linux systems administration and infrastructure management, specifically in high-performance computing environments.
- Expertise managing bare-metal servers, enterprise storage arrays, and advanced network configurations, including experience with InfiniBand.
- Strong proficiency with workload managers, job schedulers, and AI orchestration tools such as Run:AI and SLURM.
- Hands-on experience with enterprise container orchestration platforms, specifically OpenShift or Kubernetes.
- Experience writing automation and configuration scripts, such as Bash and Python, to streamline cluster maintenance.
- Demonstrated ability to diagnose and resolve complex hardware, network, and operating-system issues.
- Bachelor's degree in a related discipline, or an equivalent combination of education, professional training, or work/military experience.
- Meet DoD 8570 IAT Level II requirements with one of the following certifications: Security+ CE, CND, SSCP, GSEC, GICSP, CySA+, or CCNA.
- TS/SCI clearance and ability to obtain and maintain a CI Polygraph.
Nice To Haves
- Familiarity with parallel file systems and high-throughput storage architectures.
- Prior experience engineering or managing high-speed GPU-to-GPU communication topologies.
Responsibilities
- Manage day-to-day customer compute cluster operations, including Linux operating system administration, hardware monitoring, patching, and system upgrades.
- Configure, maintain, and optimize workload management and orchestration platforms, using the Run:AI job scheduler to distribute 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.
- 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 environments, dependencies, and container platforms, including Red Hat OpenShift, for customer model deployment.
- Keep infrastructure components compliant with federal security standards by implementing strict access controls and maintaining system accreditations.
Benefits
- Choice of medical plans, including an HSA option and a PPO, with company contributions.
- Dental and vision coverage for employees and their families.
- Company-paid life, short-term disability, and long-term disability insurance.
- Optional supplemental life, accident, and critical illness coverage.
- 401(k) retirement plan with company match.
- Paid time off that grows with years of service and paid federal holidays.
- Paid certifications, professional development, and access to the Valiant University training portal.
- Flexible spending accounts.
- Wellness and fitness program.
- Referral bonuses.
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Job Type
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