Lead HPC Cluster Engineer for AI/ML & OpenShift

Abile Group, Inc; Springfield (VA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Abile Group, Inc. seeks an experienced HPC Infrastructure & Cluster Engineer to support an Intelligence Community customer on a long-term contract. The role covers design, deployment, and operations of user-facing and data center IT services across networks and security domains worldwide.

The candidate will manage Linux HPC clusters, optimize workloads with Run:AI and SLURM, and implement OpenShift/Kubernetes environments while maintaining compliance with federal security standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in a related discipline or equivalent education/training/experience.
• 5+ years Linux systems administration and infrastructure management in HPC environments.
• TS/SCI clearance with ability to obtain CI poly.
• DoD 8570 IAT Level II certifications such as Security+ CE, CCNA, SSCP, GSEC, GICSP, CySA+.

Responsibilities

• Cluster administration of customer compute cluster including Linux OS, hardware monitoring, patching, and upgrades.
• Configure and optimize workload management and orchestration platforms (Run:AI, SLURM).
• Tune cluster performance across hardware, OS, and network for workload throughput.
• Manage storage and high-speed networks; support InfiniBand GPU-to-GPU network implementation.
• Provision environments and containers (OpenShift/Kubernetes) for model deployment.
• Ensure infrastructure compliance with federal security standards and attestations.

Skills

Bare-metal servers

Enterprise storage

InfiniBand

Workload managers

Job schedulers

AI orchestration

Run:AI

SLURM

Container orchestration

OpenShift

Kubernetes

Bash scripting

Python scripting

Troubleshooting

Education

Bachelor's Degree in related discipline

Tools

OpenShift

Kubernetes

Job description

Abile Group, Inc. seeks an experienced HPC Infrastructure & Cluster Engineer to support an Intelligence Community customer on a long-term contract. The role covers design, deployment, and operations of user-facing and data center IT services across networks and security domains worldwide.

The candidate will manage Linux HPC clusters, optimize workloads with Run:AI and SLURM, and implement OpenShift/Kubernetes environments while maintaining compliance with federal security standards.