Senior Cloud HPC Architect for AWS/EDA Workloads

Ayar Labs; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Ayar Labs is seeking a Senior Cloud HPC Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate a cloud HPC platform in AWS, migrating from a Red Hat environment. You will own workloads, licenses, and data movement, chair capacity planning, and implement scalable compute with Slurm as the central scheduler.

You will collaborate with IT, design teams, and EDA partners, delivering self‑service access, secure connectivity, and reliable, cost‑aware operations.

Qualifications

• 7+ years building and operating Linux infrastructure, incl. 3+ years in AWS or similar cloud.
• Deep hands-on experience with Enterprise Linux in production as a System Administrator.
• Experience designing or operating HPC, batch compute, large-scale simulation.
• Deep production experience administering Slurm as the primary HPC scheduler, incl. clusters and policies.
• Strong AWS experience across EC2, IAM, VPC, S3, CloudWatch, SSM, KMS, and high-performance storage.
• Strong IaC skills using Terraform or OpenTofu; reusable modules, state, testing.
• Experience automating Linux images with Packer, Ansible, Python, and Bash.
• Knowledge of cloud networking, DNS, routing, firewalls, VPN, and hybrid connectivity.
• Experience with FlexNet/FlexLM network licensing.
• Monitoring, alerting, incident response, capacity management, and cost controls.

Responsibilities

• Lead the AWS migration: inventory workloads, data, licenses, requirements; plan waves, cutovers, and rollbacks.
• Build and operate scalable AWS compute with EC2, accelerated networking, autoscaling, and isolation.
• Own scheduling and job execution using Slurm as primary control plane; deploy via Slurm/ParallelCluster.
• Translate run manifests into CPU/core, memory, GPU, wall-time, storage I/O, and budget needs.
• Design high‑performance storage and tiering across FSx, EFS, S3, and on-premise systems.
• Create reproducible RHEL-compatible environments for Cadence, Synopsys, Ansys, and tools.
• Manage licenses ensure access across hybrid and cloud environments; monitor usage.
• Automate infrastructure with Terraform/OpenTofu, Packer, Ansible; maintain patch lifecycle.
• Prove performance and correctness; validate runtime, queue time, storage, cost, and results.
• Deliver self-service VDI/DVI access; publish apps, images, SSO, MFA, and policy governance.
• Ensure security, least-privilege access, logging, and secure connectivity (VPN/Direct Connect).
• Operate for reliability; runbooks, incident response, disaster recovery testing, capacity plans.
• Control cloud cost with tagging, budgets, and cost/performance optimization; use Slurm accounting.
• Eliminate fragile manual steps; implement versioned automation and clear documentation.

Skills

Linux infrastructure

AWS

Slurm

Terraform/OpenTofu

Packer/Ansible/Python/Bash

HPC/batch compute

VDI/DVI administration

Cloud cost optimization

Monitoring/incident response

Documentation & collaboration

Education

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

Tools

Terraform/OpenTofu

Packer

Ansible

AWS ParallelCluster

Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops

Job description

Ayar Labs is seeking a Senior Cloud HPC Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate a cloud HPC platform in AWS, migrating from a Red Hat environment. You will own workloads, licenses, and data movement, chair capacity planning, and implement scalable compute with Slurm as the central scheduler.

You will collaborate with IT, design teams, and EDA partners, delivering self‑service access, secure connectivity, and reliable, cost‑aware operations.