Senior HPC DevOps Engineer - Automation & Onboarding Lead

Peraton; College Park (MD); Hybrid; USD 146,000 - 234,000; Full time

Job summary

Peraton Labs is seeking a Senior HPC DevOps Engineer to own the operations and automation lifecycle for an HPC/AI compute cluster on Linux. You will codify repeatable operations in Ansible and drive execution through an enterprise automation controller at a customer site near College Park, MD.

The role emphasizes automation, drift detection, node onboarding, and secure, auditable runbooks with logs integrated into monitoring and ITSM to support incident response and scale.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in a technical field with equivalent education.

Responsibilities

• Automation ownership: Own and manage automation workflows, including job templates, inventories, credentials, RBAC configurations, execution environments, and promotion across environments.
• Desired-state and drift detection: Enforce desired state across cluster services via code-driven configuration.
• Compute node onboarding (Bare-metal/VM): Build automated node bootstrap workflow installing OS, applying baselines, enrolling into scheduler/storage, and reporting results.
• Patch & vulnerability response: Implement rolling maintenance and patch automation with image scanning.
• Logging & observability: Emit auditable logs and integrate with metrics/alerting for incident response.
• Incident/problem management: Automate responses to common incidents using runbooks and out-of-band interfaces.
• Docs-as-code: Keep runbooks and docs versioned with automation.

Skills

Linux Systems

Ansible

SRE/DevOps

HPC Compute

Automation

Git

Containerization

Monitoring & ITSM

Security Compliance

Runbook Automation

Education

BS in CS/IT or related

MS or PhD acceptable

Tools

Ansible

Foreman/MAAS

Image lifecycle tooling

Job description

Peraton Labs is seeking a Senior HPC DevOps Engineer to own the operations and automation lifecycle for an HPC/AI compute cluster on Linux. You will codify repeatable operations in Ansible and drive execution through an enterprise automation controller at a customer site near College Park, MD.

The role emphasizes automation, drift detection, node onboarding, and secure, auditable runbooks with logs integrated into monitoring and ITSM to support incident response and scale.