Senior HPC & EDA Infrastructure System Administrator

Gsme; Muscat; On-site; OMR 23,070 - 30,760; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology firm in Oman is seeking a highly skilled System Administrator specialized in HPC and EDA infrastructure. This role involves designing, administering, and optimizing large-scale Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)-based environments. The ideal candidate will have strong experience in Linux system administration, workload orchestration, and virtualization. You'll be responsible for ensuring system performance and compliance in a regulated environment, thus supporting engineering workloads and compute-intensive tasks.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of Linux system administration experience in enterprise environments.
• Strong expertise in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).
• Experience with HPC cluster management or large compute farms.
• Hands-on experience with LSF, Slurm, or similar job schedulers.
• Experience with VMware virtualization.

Responsibilities

• Administer and maintain large-scale RHEL-based HPC environments.
• Perform system tuning for high CPU, memory, and I/O workloads.
• Manage OS patch lifecycle, upgrades, and security compliance.
• Implement system hardening aligned with CIS security baselines.
• Deploy and maintain EDA tool environments.

Skills

Linux system administration

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)

HPC cluster management

Job scheduling (LSF/Slurm)

VMware virtualization

NFS storage

Scripting (Bash, Python)

Troubleshooting and performance optimization

Education

RHCSA or RHCE

Tools

Cadence

Synopsys

Siemens EDA

Docker

Podman

Job description

A leading technology firm in Oman is seeking a highly skilled System Administrator specialized in HPC and EDA infrastructure. This role involves designing, administering, and optimizing large-scale Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)-based environments. The ideal candidate will have strong experience in Linux system administration, workload orchestration, and virtualization. You'll be responsible for ensuring system performance and compliance in a regulated environment, thus supporting engineering workloads and compute-intensive tasks.