Senior HPC DevOps Engineer | TS/SCI w/ MD Poly

Capstone Technology Partners; College Park (MD); On-site; USD 222,000 - 257,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Four weeks paid time off

Eleven paid holidays

401k with employer contributions and 3

Annual bonuses for performance

Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance

Education and training budget

Certification and coursework budget

Amazon Prime Membership Reimbursement

Birthday Club

Capstone Swag

Job summary

Capstone Technology Partners seeks a senior HPC DevOps Engineer to own operations and automation for a large compute cluster in College Park, MD. You will codify repeatable tasks with Ansible, enforce desired state, and drive automation through an enterprise controller.

You will collaborate with our Maryland-based customer, apply security baselines, and ensure incident readiness with robust runbooks and logs. The role requires active TS/SCI with MD polygraph clearance.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience and a BS in computer science, IT, or related field; MS and 10 years, or a Ph.D. with 8 years of experience.
• 7+ years in Linux systems / SRE / DevOps, including production cluster operations in HPC or large-scale compute environments.
• 3+ years of experience building and operating Ansible automation at scale (roles/collections, idempotency, inventories, secrets).
• Strong Linux hardening &"+" compliance fundamentals (SELinux/AppArmor, SSH key automation, baseline config management).
• Demonstrated experience operating or automating clustered compute environments (HPC, large Linux farms, or similar).
• Hands-on experience with container tooling in Linux environments, including image lifecycle/versioning.
• Familiarity with incident response and runbook-driven operations; ability to automate common remediations.
• Strong Git workflow and documentation practices.

Responsibilities

• Enforce desired-state across cluster services via code-driven configuration; implement drift detection and alert on deviations; reconcile runtime state vs configured state.
• Build and maintain an automated node bootstrap workflow for Bare-metal/VM onboarding; apply security baselines and enroll nodes into scheduler and storage ecosystem.
• Implement rolling maintenance and patch automation; maintain version-controlled container build definitions and integrate image scanning into build/release lifecycles.
• Ensure auditable logs and integrate with metrics/alerting for reliable incident response and auto-remediation.
• Automate responses to common incidents leveraging out-of-band hardware management interfaces and standard runbooks.
• Keep runbooks and operational docs versioned alongside automation; publish operator guidance to documentation platforms.

Skills

Linux systems

SRE / DevOps

Ansible automation

Security hardening

Git workflows

Container tooling

Incident response/runbooks

Documentation practices

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Master's degree in Computer Science or related field

Ph.D. with 8+ years experience

Tools

Ansible

Foreman/MAAS

Job description

Capstone Technology Partners seeks a senior HPC DevOps Engineer to own operations and automation for a large compute cluster in College Park, MD. You will codify repeatable tasks with Ansible, enforce desired state, and drive automation through an enterprise controller.

You will collaborate with our Maryland-based customer, apply security baselines, and ensure incident readiness with robust runbooks and logs. The role requires active TS/SCI with MD polygraph clearance.