HPC Systems Engineer: Slurm, InfiniBand & Storage

Santa Clara University; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 129,000 - 161,000; Full time

Job summary

Santa Clara University seeks an HPC Systems Administrator to manage day-to-day operation, optimization, and support of the university's high-performance computing infrastructure. You will optimize compute, storage, and interconnects, collaborate across teams, and ensure reliable, efficient scientific workloads.

Responsibilities include Slurm workload management, node lifecycle, system imaging, license administration, and contributing to future infrastructure evolution with a focus on

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a directly applicable field of study (Computer or Electrical Engineering, Math/CS, Operations and MIS).
• Experience with HPC environments and enterprise systems is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for day-to-day configuration, monitoring, optimization, and operation of HPC infrastructure.
• Collaborate with system administrators to strengthen shared support and operational resilience.
• Manage Slurm configurations, compute node lifecycle, and system imaging for consistent deployments.

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Slurm

InfiniBand

Lustre

GPFS

CephFS

Ansible

Warewulf

vSphere

ESXi

LDAP

DNS

Job description

Santa Clara University seeks an HPC Systems Administrator to manage day-to-day operation, optimization, and support of the university's high-performance computing infrastructure. You will optimize compute, storage, and interconnects, collaborate across teams, and ensure reliable, efficient scientific workloads.

Responsibilities include Slurm workload management, node lifecycle, system imaging, license administration, and contributing to future infrastructure evolution with a focus on