Night-Shift HPC Systems Lead - Remote

5C Group; Springfield (OH); On-site; USD 115,000 - 145,000; Full time

Job summary

5C Data Centers is seeking a Systems Administrator Lead for the Night Shift to support, troubleshoot, and optimize large-scale HPC/AI infrastructure across data center and cloud environments. You will handle Linux systems, GPU servers, high-speed networking, storage, firmware, and out-of-band management, providing critical overnight coverage.

The role serves as a senior escalation point for complex incidents, collaborating with Network Engineering and Data Center Operations to restore service

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required and 7+ years in Linux systems administration and HPC/AI infrastructure.
• Hands-on experience with enterprise server hardware and NVIDIA GPU infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Administer and troubleshoot Linux-based HPC/AI compute environments and large GPU clusters.
• Diagnose hardware, OS, driver, firmware, networking, and storage failures with root-cause analysis.
• Senior escalation point for complex incidents affecting production compute infrastructure.
• Support heterogeneous environments—bare-metal, virtualized, containerized, and cloud-hosted.

Skills

Linux administration

HPC/AI infrastructure

Python

Bash

Ansible

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or related field

Tools

NVIDIA DCGM

NVIDIA Fabric Manager

nvidia-smi

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

Redfish

IPMI

iDRAC

iLO

Job description

5C Data Centers is seeking a Systems Administrator Lead for the Night Shift to support, troubleshoot, and optimize large-scale HPC/AI infrastructure across data center and cloud environments. You will handle Linux systems, GPU servers, high-speed networking, storage, firmware, and out-of-band management, providing critical overnight coverage.

The role serves as a senior escalation point for complex incidents, collaborating with Network Engineering and Data Center Operations to restore service