HPC Principal Federal Technical consultant – Clearance Required

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

94d • $115,500 - $266,000

About The Position

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work. We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today’s complex world. Our culture thrives on finding new and better ways to accelerate what’s next. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good. If you are looking to stretch and grow your career our culture will embrace you. Open up opportunities with HPE.

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional experience, with at least 3+ in HPC architecture, systems engineering, or large-scale infrastructure design.
• Advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, or related technical field (or equivalent experience).
• Proven ability to design and deliver complex, multi-vendor HPC solutions at scale.
• Demonstrated ability to independently complete solution implementations and application design deliverables.
• Must be United States Citizen due to the responsibilities and requirements of the role as this will be supporting a Federal site.
• Top Secret Clearance, TS/SCI with Full Scope Polygraph (FSP).
• Must be willing to travel as the business dictates.

Nice To Haves

• Demonstrates broad knowledge across multiple technical domains to effectively manage complex integration efforts involving HPC and enterprise systems.
• Expertise in one or more of the following: parallel computing, MPI/OpenMP, GPU acceleration, workload schedulers (Slurm, Altair PBS Pro, Torque/MOAB, etc.), or large-scale data storage systems (Lustre, GPFS, Ceph).
• Experience with Network boot technologies (PXE or gPXE/Etherboot etc).
• Storage specific knowledge: LVM, RAID, iSCSI, Disk partitioning (GPT, MBR).
• Exposure to Opensource community and software.
• Knowledge of shared storage like Lustre, SpectrumStore and High Availability solutions is a plus.
• Experience with development and automation such as Ansible and GitHub, etc.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical implementation design and delivery of world class scale HPC solutions, from requirements gathering to implementation.
• Provide architectural guidance on compute, storage, networking, and workload management tailored to customer use cases.
• Configure, deploy, and maintain Linux-based HPC clusters, associated storage, and network infrastructure.
• Work in close collaboration with customers on finalizing and deploying HPC software applications, hosting platforms, and management systems that enable customer research and production workloads.
• Provide technical support and troubleshooting for HPC implementation in secure locations.
• Work on both operational support and strategic HPC projects; actively participate in customer user group environments.
• Evaluate and implement new tools, middleware, and methodologies to improve operations and service delivery.
• Ensure compliance with enterprise IT security and technology controls.
• Act as principal consultant in customer engagements, often leading cross-functional project teams (including customer staff).
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex, multi-vendor HPC infrastructure challenges.
• Advise senior IT and research leadership on HPC strategy, best practices, and future direction.
• Collaborate with sales teams on proposals, proof-of-concepts, and pre-sales activities, ensuring technical soundness and customer alignment.
• Mentor junior engineers and consultants, fostering knowledge sharing across the HPC practice.

Benefits

• Health & Wellbeing: Comprehensive suite of benefits that supports physical, financial and emotional wellbeing.
• Personal & Professional Development: Programs catered to helping you reach career goals.
• Unconditional Inclusion: Commitment to inclusivity and valuing varied backgrounds.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Master's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees