AWS HPC Engineer (Linux/Slurm) – Hybrid/On-Prem

Strategic Business Systems; Chantilly (VA); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Strategic Business Systems, Inc. (SBS) seeks an HPC Systems Engineer to support mission-critical HPC environments for government and enterprise clients. The role focuses on on-premises or hybrid HPC infrastructures, with beneficial familiarity in AWS for hybrid use cases.

The candidate should excel in Linux cluster administration, job scheduling (Slurm/PBS/LSF), and performance tuning while ensuring security and compliance across environments. U.S. citizenship is required.

Qualifications

• U.S. Citizenship required or as per government policy.
• Demonstrated experience supporting HPC or large-scale distributed environments.
• Strong proficiency in Linux/Unix system administration.
• Experience with job schedulers such as Slurm, PBS, or LSF.
• Understanding of parallel and distributed computing concepts.
• Familiarity with high-performance networking and parallel storage systems.
• Scripting experience using Bash or Python.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and maintain HPC environments for compute-intensive workloads.
• Administer and optimize Linux-based clustered systems.
• Manage and support job scheduling/workload management platforms (e.g., Slurm, PBS, LSF).
• Monitor and tune system performance for efficient resource use.
• Support high-speed interconnects (InfiniBand) and parallel file systems (Lustre, GPFS/BeeGFS).
• Collaborate with engineers and stakeholders to translate requirements into solutions.
• Implement automation using Bash or Python.
• Ensure reliability, security, and compliance with standards.
• Provide documentation and user support.
• Contribute to capacity planning and infrastructure enhancements.
• Nice to have: AWS-based HPC extensions for hybrid scenarios.

Skills

Linux/Unix admin

High Performance Computing

Scripting Bash/Python

Job scheduling

Communication

Collaboration

Tools

Slurm

PBS

LSF

InfiniBand

Lustre

BeeGFS

Docker

Singularity/Apptainer

AWS

Job description

Strategic Business Systems, Inc. (SBS) seeks an HPC Systems Engineer to support mission-critical HPC environments for government and enterprise clients. The role focuses on on-premises or hybrid HPC infrastructures, with beneficial familiarity in AWS for hybrid use cases.

The candidate should excel in Linux cluster administration, job scheduling (Slurm/PBS/LSF), and performance tuning while ensuring security and compliance across environments. U.S. citizenship is required.