Linux HPC Operations Engineer - 24/7 High-Performance Infra

Westbury Partners; Sydney; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Westbury Partners is seeking a hands-on Linux engineer to operate and optimize large-scale HPC environments in Sydney. You will resolve production issues, automate tasks, and maintain compute, storage, and networking systems around the clock.

You will collaborate with researchers and engineers, develop tooling, participate in on-call rotations, and contribute to global infrastructure projects, while following security policies.

Qualifications

• Minimum two years of professional Linux experience.
• Strong scripting in Python, Go, or C.
• Ability to diagnose complex HPC infrastructure issues.
• Willingness to participate in on-call rotation and maintenance windows.

Responsibilities

• Provide front-line operational support for 24/7 Linux HPC compute, storage, and network infrastructure.
• Troubleshoot complex issues across RDMA fabrics, parallel filesystems, batch schedulers, FUSE filesystems, hardware, and software.
• Manage incidents and problem reports through their entire lifecycle, escalating when required.
• Respond quickly to infrastructure alerts.
• Participate in coordinated maintenance activities, including scheduled evening and weekend maintenance windows.
• Support global infrastructure projects across a broad range of technologies.
• Develop code and tooling to diagnose, troubleshoot, triage, and resolve difficult operational problems.
• Automate frequently performed operational tasks.
• Contribute to testing infrastructure and codebases across multiple programming languages.
• Develop and maintain performance and fault‑monitoring systems.
• Create and improve technical and user documentation.
• Work with external technology vendors and support vendor relationships.
• Participate in an on‑call rotation and provide operational support as a core responsibility.
• Follow cybersecurity and IT policies when managing infrastructure and production systems.

Skills

Linux

Scripting

Python

Go

C

HPC

Networking

RDMA

Storage

FUSE

Job description

Westbury Partners is seeking a hands-on Linux engineer to operate and optimize large-scale HPC environments in Sydney. You will resolve production issues, automate tasks, and maintain compute, storage, and networking systems around the clock.

You will collaborate with researchers and engineers, develop tooling, participate in on-call rotations, and contribute to global infrastructure projects, while following security policies.