Senior HPC Cluster Engineer: AI Workloads & OpenShift

Abile Group, LLC; Springfield (VA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Abile Group is seeking an HPC Infrastructure & Cluster Engineer on a 10-year contract to support a Intelligence Community customer across multiple networks and locations. You will manage Linux clusters, optimize hardware and networks, and orchestrate AI workloads with RunAI and SLURM in OpenShift/Kubernetes environments.

The role requires a Bachelor's degree and 5+ years' Linux experience, with DoD 8570 IAT Level II certification or equivalent, TS/SCI with CI poly eligibility.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in a related discipline.
• At least 5+ years in Linux systems administration and infra management for HPC environments.
• DoD 8570 IAT Level II certification or equivalent (Security+ CE, CND, SSCP, GSEC, GICSP, CySA+, CCNA).

Responsibilities

• Manage day-to-day operations of customer compute clusters, including Linux admin and system upgrades.
• Configure and optimize workload management and AI orchestration platforms (RunAI, SLURM).
• Tune performance across hardware, OS, and networking to maximize throughput.
• Administer storage and high-speed networks, including InfiniBand GPU-to-GPU topology.
• Provision environments and containers using OpenShift/Kubernetes; automate maintenance with scripts.
• Ensure security, compliance, and accreditation of all infrastructure components.

Skills

Linux systems administration

RunAI/SLURM workload management

OpenShift / Kubernetes

Automation scripting (Bash, Python)

Troubleshooting hardware/network/OS

Education

Bachelor's Degree in related discipline

Tools

InfiniBand networking

Job description

Abile Group is seeking an HPC Infrastructure & Cluster Engineer on a 10-year contract to support a Intelligence Community customer across multiple networks and locations. You will manage Linux clusters, optimize hardware and networks, and orchestrate AI workloads with RunAI and SLURM in OpenShift/Kubernetes environments.

The role requires a Bachelor's degree and 5+ years' Linux experience, with DoD 8570 IAT Level II certification or equivalent, TS/SCI with CI poly eligibility.