Senior HPC DevOps Engineer - Automation & Onsite Cluster

Peraton; United States; On-site; USD 146,000 - 234,000; Full time

Job summary

Peraton Labs seeks a poly cleared Senior HPC DevOps Engineer to own automation for an existing HPC/AI compute cluster (Linux) on-site near College Park, MD. You will codify repeatable ops with Ansible and drive state enforcement via an enterprise automation platform.

Responsibilities include drift detection, node onboarding, patch automation, logging, incident management, and runbooks. On-site work and strong security posture are required.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in relevant field and advanced degree combinations as stated in the ad.
• 7+ years in Linux systems/SRE/DevOps with HPC or large-scale compute experience.
• 3+ years building and operating Ansible automation at scale (roles/collections, idempotency, inventories, secrets).
• Strong Linux hardening and compliance fundamentals (SELinux/AppArmor, SSH key automation).
• Experience with clustered compute environments (HPC, large Linux farms).
• Hands-on experience with container tooling and image lifecycle/versioning.
• Active TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph.

Responsibilities

• Automation ownership: manage automation workflows, inventories, credentials, RBAC, execution environments, and promotion across environments.
• Enforce desired-state and drift detection across cluster services; implement alerting and reconcile runtime vs configured state.
• Compute node onboarding (Bare-metal/VM): automated OS install/config, security baselines, scheduler/shared storage enrollment, hardware readiness checks.
• Patch & vulnerability automation: rolling maintenance, image scanning, and lifecycle integration.
• 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 management.
• Docs-as-code: versioned runbooks and operator guidance on documentation platform.

Skills

SRE/DevOps

Ansible automation

Linux hardening

Incident response

Documentation practices

Git workflows

Education

BS in computer science, IT, or related technical field

MS in computer science or related field

PhD in related field

Tools

Ansible

Git

Container tooling

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Peraton Labs seeks a poly cleared Senior HPC DevOps Engineer to own automation for an existing HPC/AI compute cluster (Linux) on-site near College Park, MD. You will codify repeatable ops with Ansible and drive state enforcement via an enterprise automation platform.

Responsibilities include drift detection, node onboarding, patch automation, logging, incident management, and runbooks. On-site work and strong security posture are required.