Research HPC & AI Systems Administrator

California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo; San Luis Obispo (CA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental & vision insurance

Pension retirement benefits

Educational benefits for eligible

Job summary

Cal Poly seeks an experienced Linux/HPC Systems Administrator to deploy, design, and maintain enterprise-grade computing platforms for research and instruction. You will manage on-prem NVIDIA HPC infrastructure, AWS workloads, and Kubernetes-based AI/ML services, collaborating with faculty and ITS teams to ensure high availability and security.

This role emphasizes automation, scripting, and infrastructure-as-code using tools like Ansible and Terraform, with strong emphasis on GPU hardware and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with four years of relevant experience.
• Advanced Linux and HPC experience with production systems.
• Experience with Ansible, Terraform, AWS Systems Manager and Git/CI-CD.

Responsibilities

• Deploy, design, enhance, manage, document and maintain systems, servers, storage and services.
• Support on-prem NVIDIA HPC platform (AI Factory) and AWS workloads across Kubernetes-based AI/ML services.
• Collaborate with faculty and ITS teams to ensure availability, security and optimization for academic use.

Skills

Linux system administration

HPC & GPU hardware

Ansible

Terraform

AWS Systems Manager

Git CI/CD

Python Bash scripting

Kubernetes

NVIDIA GPU tech

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related field

4+ years relevant experience

Tools

Slurm

VAST storage

Kubernetes

AWS

Job description

Cal Poly seeks an experienced Linux/HPC Systems Administrator to deploy, design, and maintain enterprise-grade computing platforms for research and instruction. You will manage on-prem NVIDIA HPC infrastructure, AWS workloads, and Kubernetes-based AI/ML services, collaborating with faculty and ITS teams to ensure high availability and security.

This role emphasizes automation, scripting, and infrastructure-as-code using tools like Ansible and Terraform, with strong emphasis on GPU hardware and