Field HPC Infrastructure Engineer

Nityo Infotech; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Nityo Infotech in Melbourne seeks a Data Centre Technician to support HPC and AI infrastructure across rack-and-stack, cabling, and out-of-band management. You will provision bare-metal nodes, hardware upgrades, and storage clients, while validating performance with standard benchmarks.

Responsibilities include fault triage for GPU, network, and storage, RMA coordination, and L2 support with offshore teams. Linux admin skills and Ansible experience are preferred.

Qualifications

• Data Centre background with experience in rack-and-stack and field engineering in SI/OEM/colo environments.

Responsibilities

• Rack-and-stack execution and verification of DGX/HGX/MGX nodes, switches, and PDUs.
• Structured cabling and P2P validation; verify transceiver types and MPO sizes.
• Bring up and validate out-of-band management network (BMC/IPMI) before in-band compute-fabric activation.
• Bare-metal and fabric provisioning using BCM provisioning workflows and Ansible playbooks.
• Configure host networking (IPoIB, Netplan) and mount high-performance storage clients (VAST, WEKA, Lustre).
• Perform firmware and driver upgrades (SBIOS, BMC, GPU VBIOS, NVSwitch) per NVIDIA recipes.
• Execute performance benchmarks (HPL, NCCL-tests, ib_write_bw/ib_send_bw, IOR/FIO) and compare to Gold Standard.
• Triage hardware issues (GPU, links, storage mounts) and distinguish node vs network vs storage faults.
• Coordinate RMA with OEM/vendor and track DOA cases; resolve L2 escalations with offshore HPC team.
• Solid HPC/AI infra exposure and familiarity with NVIDIA BCM and DGX/HGX/MGX architectures.

Skills

Data centre background

Fault diagnosis

HPC & AI infrastructure

NVIDIA BCM familiarity

GPU/InfiniBand networking

Storage integration

RHEL/Ubuntu administration

Ansible

Git workflow

Tools

Ansible

Git

ibstat

ibdiagnet

iostat

iotop

nvidia-smi

dmesg

ethtool

Job description

Nityo Infotech in Melbourne seeks a Data Centre Technician to support HPC and AI infrastructure across rack-and-stack, cabling, and out-of-band management. You will provision bare-metal nodes, hardware upgrades, and storage clients, while validating performance with standard benchmarks.

Responsibilities include fault triage for GPU, network, and storage, RMA coordination, and L2 support with offshore teams. Linux admin skills and Ansible experience are preferred.