HPC Operations Engineer
Core
Develop, deploy, and maintain tools, automation, and processes for Livermore Computing's high-performance computing systems, storage, networks, and data center facilities to ensure high reliability and performance.
Role type
Senior IC HPC Operations Engineer (SES.1/SES.2)
Builds
Monitoring, alerting, observability tools, and automation for HPC clusters, storage, and facility infrastructure.
Domain
High-Performance Computing (HPC), Data Center Operations, Infrastructure
Deliverable
infrastructure
Required skills
Linux/UNIX systems administration, HPC cluster management, storage systems (Lustre, RAID), networking (InfiniBand), scripting (Python, C/C++, Go, Rust, Bash), version control (Git), configuration management (Ansible, CFEngine), incident management, root cause analysis, technical documentation.
Preferred skills
HPC technologies (Slurm, Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, Nagios), container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, Podman), building management systems (power/cooling), virtualization.
Responsibilities
Develop and maintain monitoring/alerting tools; create automation for alarm response and diagnostics; integrate facility data (power/cooling) with HPC monitoring; diagnose and resolve hardware/software/network/facility issues; deploy and validate new HPC systems; develop operational runbooks; respond to user problems; lead technical projects and mentor staff (SES.2).
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC (SES.1) to Principal/Lead (SES.2)
