AI Cluster Automation Engineer - Infra & Commissioning

Firmus Technologies Pty Ltd.; Sydney; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Firmus Technologies is seeking a skilled Infrastructure Automation Engineer to join our Commissioning team in Australia. The position focuses on developing, maintaining, and improving software tools used from initial power-on through integration, bring-up, testing, benchmarking, and hand-over to operations for AI infrastructure.

Role involves custom tool development, integration with various tools and cloud services, and deployment of AI Factory tech with a focus on security and automation.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience developing software, automation platforms, operational tooling, or infrastructure automation solutions for large-scale Linux, cloud, HPC, or AI environments.
• Experience using scripting, automation, and IaC tools including bash, Python, Ansible.
• Solid understanding of advanced hardware technologies, particularly high performance GPU infrastructure.
• Experience in Linux systems including server, network, and storage configuration.

Responsibilities

• Hardware bring-up: develop custom tools and automate processes for initial system bring-up, hardware configuration, firmware updates, system inventory, testing, and issue tracking.
• System and status monitoring: implement health-checks and diagnostics tools to aid remediation and prepare for production.
• Network tools: automate commissioning tools and integrate diagnostics from OS deployment to network configuration.
• Storage: develop tooling for deployment, configuration, benchmarking, and validation of storage platforms.
• Communication tools: integrate messaging tools, inventories, trackers, dashboards, and operational analytics for fast commissioning.
• Testing and benchmarking: develop and execute tests to confirm successful commissioning.
• Automation and documentation: use IaC; implement CI/CD pipelines and document tools and processes for hand-over to operations.
• Security: apply best security practices including updates and secure handling of credentials.
• Success measures: reduced commissioning time, high reliability, and accurate handover to operations.

Skills

5+ years exp

Scripting

Automation

IaC

GPU infra

Linux expertise

Communication

Travel willingness

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

bash

Python

Ansible

Redfish

IPMI

DCGM

Prometheus

Grafana

NetBox

Slurm

Job description

Firmus Technologies is seeking a skilled Infrastructure Automation Engineer to join our Commissioning team in Australia. The position focuses on developing, maintaining, and improving software tools used from initial power-on through integration, bring-up, testing, benchmarking, and hand-over to operations for AI infrastructure.

Role involves custom tool development, integration with various tools and cloud services, and deployment of AI Factory tech with a focus on security and automation.