Linux HPC Systems Engineer

LER TechForce; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

HSA and FSA options

401(k) with company match

Short-term and long-term disability

Life insurance

Employee Assistance Program

Job summary

LER TechForce is seeking an experienced Linux HPC Systems Engineer to design, deploy, and support HPC infrastructure used for advanced engineering and DoD programs. You will manage bare-metal Linux clusters, provisioning, storage, networking, and workload scheduling to deliver reliable, scalable computing environments.

Responsibilities include automation with Bash, Python and Ansible, troubleshooting complex issues, and capacity planning across lifecycle upgrades.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field or equivalent professional experience.
• Strong Linux administration experience in HPC/large-scale computing environments.
• Experience deploying bare-metal Linux servers and compute nodes.
• Experience with HPC cluster architecture, schedulers, storage, networking, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
• Proficient in Bash, Python and Ansible scripting/automation.
• Experience with high-availability production infrastructure emphasizing performance and security.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, configure, and maintain Linux-based HPC clusters from bare-metal to production.
• Administer Linux OS, cluster provisioning, compute nodes, storage, networking, and supporting infra.
• Configure and support HPC workload scheduling, resource management, monitoring, and performance tuning.
• Troubleshoot hardware, OS, network, storage, and cluster-level issues.
• Maintain secure, scalable HPC environments for engineering and scientific workloads.
• Automate provisioning and administrative processes where appropriate.
• Support HPC infrastructure throughout lifecycle: upgrades, patches, capacity planning, hardware refreshes.
• Collaborate with engineering users to ensure HPC resources meet workloads.

Skills

Linux administration

HPC clustering

Scripting and automation

Bash

Python

Ansible

System troubleshooting

Networking

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

SLURM

Linux server provisioning tools

Job description

Are you looking to work for a company that provides an innovative work environment where your voice is heard?

LER TechForce is looking for an experienced Linux HPC Systems Engineer to design, deploy, and support High-Performance Computing (HPC) infrastructure used for advanced engineering and computational workloads, including DoD programs.

Who We Are

LER TechForce is an industry leader in engineering talent and technical solutions. For over 20 years, LER has worked with customers across North America to meet complex engineering and technology challenges.

This position supports U.S. Department of Defense programs and involves access to ITAR-controlled technical data. Candidates must meet applicable U.S. Person requirements under ITAR and be eligible to access export-controlled information. Additional customer or program-specific security requirements may apply.

What You Will Be Doing

• Design, deploy, configure, and maintain Linux-based HPC clusters from bare-metal hardware through fully operational production environments.


• Administer Linux operating systems, cluster provisioning, compute nodes, storage, networking, and supporting infrastructure.


• Configure and support HPC workload scheduling, resource management, monitoring, and performance optimization.


• Troubleshoot complex hardware, operating system, network, storage, and cluster-level issues.


• Maintain highly available, reliable, secure, and scalable HPC environments supporting engineering and scientific computing workloads.


• Automate system provisioning, configuration, monitoring, and administrative processes where appropriate.


• Support HPC infrastructure throughout its lifecycle, including upgrades, patching, capacity planning, performance tuning, and hardware refreshes.


• Partner with engineering and technical users to ensure HPC resources effectively support computational workloads.

What You'll Need to Be Successful

• Strong Linux Systems Administration experience supporting HPC, compute cluster, or large-scale technical computing environments.


• Hands-on experience deploying and administering bare-metal Linux servers and compute nodes.


• Experience with HPC cluster architecture, workload schedulers, storage systems, networking, monitoring, and troubleshooting.


• Strong scripting and automation skills using Bash, Python, Ansible, or similar technologies.


• Experience supporting highly available production infrastructure with an emphasis on performance, reliability, scalability, and security.


• Ability to independently troubleshoot complex infrastructure issues across hardware, Linux, storage, networking, and HPC environments.


• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related technical field preferred, or equivalent professional experience.

This position supports U.S. Department of Defense programs and involves access to ITAR-controlled technical data. Candidates must meet applicable U.S. Person requirements under ITAR and be eligible to access export-controlled information. Additional customer or program-specific security requirements may apply.

What You'll Get

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits


• HSA and FSA options


• 401(k) with company match


• Short-term and long-term disability and life insurance


• Employee Assistance Program


• Opportunity to support advanced engineering and DoD HPC programs