Classified Systems Engineer

LinuxCareers; Costa Mesa (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grants

Top-tier benefits

Job summary

Anduril Industries is seeking an experienced professional to design, build, and maintain high-performance computing infrastructure across classified environments. The role spans on-premise and cloud integration, with a focus on scalable architectures and secure multi-tenant capabilities for HPC workloads.

You will contribute to DevSecOps, CI/CD pipelines, and collaboration with business lines to deliver solutions on time and within budget, including training materials for users leveraging HPC

Qualifications

• Experience with Linux distributions (RHEL, Rocky Linux, Ubuntu) required.
• Automation tools: Ansible, Terraform, Puppet, or Chef.
• Familiarity with HPC file systems: Lustre, GPFS, Pure, or VAST.
• HPC batch schedulers: PBSPro, SLURM.
• Eligibility to obtain and maintain US Top Secret clearance.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain scalable HPC architectures across on-prem and cloud environments.
• Support day-to-day operations of HPC cluster systems for performance and availability.
• Implement multi-tenant security and resource consolidation.
• Evaluate new HPC technologies and present findings to senior engineers.
• Support DevSecOps and CI/CD pipelines for IaC automation.
• Collaborate with business lines and classified IT to meet requirements.
• Create training materials and runbooks for HPC users.

Skills

Linux OS knowledge

CI/CD processes

DevSecOps collaboration

Security clearance eligibility

Tools

Ansible

Terraform

Puppet

Chef

Lustre

GPFS

SLURM

PBSPro

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company building AI-powered military systems. This role focuses on designing, building, and maintaining high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructure that supports next-generation computational, networking, and storage capabilities across classified enterprise environments.

What You'll Do

• Build and maintain scalable, hybrid HPC architectures spanning on-premise and cloud environments within established architectural patterns
• Support day-to-day operations of existing HPC cluster systems to ensure performance and availability
• Implement and test secure multi-tenant capabilities to support resource consolidation
• Evaluate and test new HPC technologies (hardware and software) and present findings to senior engineers
• Support DevSecOps processes and maintain CI/CD pipelines for Infrastructure and Policy as Code automation
• Work with business lines and classified IT to gather requirements and develop solutions on time and on budget
• Create and maintain training materials and runbooks for users leveraging HPC capabilities for modeling and simulation activities

What You Need

• Knowledge of and experience with Linux operating systems such as RHEL, Rocky Linux, Ubuntu, or similar distributions
• Experience with automation and scripting tools such as Ansible, Terraform, Puppet, or Chef
• Familiarity with HPC technologies including parallel/distributed file systems such as Lustre, GPFS, Pure, or VAST
• Familiarity with HPC batch scheduling software such as PBSPro or SLURM
• Eligibility to obtain and maintain a US Top Secret Clearance with customer approval

Nice to Have

• Exposure to container orchestration such as Kubernetes with associated container technologies like Podman, Docker, Shifter, AppTainer/Singularity
• Exposure to HPC network technologies such as RoCEv2, InfiniBand, or Slingshot
• Experience with bare-metal systems provisioning using tools such as xCAT, Warewulf, or Bright Cluster Manager
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
• Familiarity with software development and debugging in parallel environments
• Familiarity with MPI and OpenMP applications and associated library configuration
• Awareness of NIST SP 800-53 controls and their technical implementation for cybersecurity requirements

Highly competitive equity grants included in majority of full-time offers; top-tier benefits package for full-time employees including health and recovery support