Senior HPC Infrastructure & Systems Engineer

Westbury Partners; Sydney; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Westbury Partners seeks an experienced HPC engineer to design and maintain large-scale compute and storage infrastructure. You will optimize systems, networks, and storage to achieve peak performance while building monitoring, fault-detection, and deployment tooling at scale.

You will collaborate with researchers to optimize HPC workloads and support global production environments, leveraging Go, Python, and C for software tooling and automation.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional HPC experience.
• 5+ years of Linux systems administration experience.
• Strong programming or scripting skills in Go, Python, C, or similar.
• Experience with complex, distributed, interdependent systems.
• Familiarity with configuration management tools (Ansible, Puppet, SaltStack).

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain high-performance compute and storage infrastructure.
• Optimize systems, networks, and storage for maximum performance.
• Build monitoring and fault-detection solutions across infrastructure.
• Develop tooling for software deployment and upgrades at scale.
• Collaborate with researchers to optimize HPC workloads.
• Support global infrastructure projects and production environments.

Skills

Go

Python

C

Tools

Ansible

Puppet

SaltStack

Job description

Engineer and optimize large-scale HPC infrastructure across compute, storage, networking, and Linux environments, developing software tooling and distributed systems that enable reliable, high-performance quantitative research.

What You'll Do:

• Design and maintain high-performance compute and storage infrastructure.
• Optimize systems, networks, and storage for maximum performance.
• Build monitoring and fault-detection solutions across infrastructure.
• Develop tooling for software deployment and upgrades at scale.
• Collaborate with researchers to optimize HPC workloads.
• Support global infrastructure projects and production environments.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Build and maintain distributed HPC systems and parallel filesystems.
• Develop software and automation using languages such as Go, Python, or C.
• Profile, debug, and optimize application and infrastructure performance.
• Implement configuration management and scalable deployment solutions.
• Conduct root cause analysis across complex system failures.
• Participate in coordinated maintenance and operational support.
• Collaborate with technology teams, researchers, and external vendors.
• Develop comprehensive systems and user documentation.

Why Join Us:

• Work with sophisticated, globally distributed HPC infrastructure.
• Solve challenging performance and reliability problems at scale.
• Collaborate directly with quantitative researchers and technology specialists.
• Work across compute, networking, storage, and software engineering.
• Contribute to global infrastructure projects with significant technical scope.
• Gain exposure to highly customized production computing environments.

About You:

• 5+ years of professional HPC experience.
• 5+ years of Linux systems administration experience.
• Strong programming or scripting skills in Go, Python, C, or similar.
• Experience with complex, distributed, interdependent systems.
• Strong debugging, profiling, and performance optimization capabilities.
• Experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible, Puppet, or SaltStack.
• Familiarity with parallel filesystems and batch scheduling systems.
• Strong analytical mindset and commitment to root cause analysis.
• Reliable, hands‑on, and comfortable supporting production environments.