Senior HPC & Kubernetes Platform Lead (On-Prem)

Autonomai Recruitment; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Autonomai Recruitment partners with a research-driven financial firm to hire a hands-on engineering leader who will own its on-premises compute platform. The role requires steering architecture, governance and a high-performing team while staying closely involved with code and operations.

The successful candidate will own Kubernetes on bare-metal Linux, drive reliability, and collaborate with researchers to translate workloads into robust infrastructure, balancing strategic direction with

Qualifications

• 10+ years of hands-on experience engineering and operating large-scale compute environments.
• 5+ years of people management with evidence of developing strong engineers.
• Deep Kubernetes expertise across cluster infrastructure and application behaviour.
• Experience managing bare-metal Linux infrastructure at scale, ideally using RPM-based distributions.
• Practical experience with low-latency systems and performance tuning.
• Strong knowledge of IP networking, routing and network performance.
• Confidence writing Python to automate infrastructure and solve operational problems.
• Experience designing and validating disaster recovery and continuity plans.
• Clear communication and the judgment to connect technical decisions with user needs.

Responsibilities

• Set the architecture and technical direction for the on-premises compute platform.
• Lead and develop the compute engineering team while remaining an active technical contributor.
• Scale and harden Kubernetes and Linux infrastructure for demanding production and research workloads.
• Build automation and establish standards that make environments consistent, reproducible and easier to operate.
• Diagnose performance and reliability issues across applications, Kubernetes, Linux and networking.
• Select and integrate open-source and commercial technologies where they solve the problem.
• Own disaster recovery and business continuity planning for the compute environment.
• Share responsibility for on-call support and planned maintenance.

Skills

Large-scale compute

Team leadership

Kubernetes

Bare-metal Linux

Low-latency systems

Networking

Python automation

Disaster recovery

Clear communication

Tools

Kubernetes

Linux

Python

RPM-based distros

Job description

Autonomai Recruitment partners with a research-driven financial firm to hire a hands-on engineering leader who will own its on-premises compute platform. The role requires steering architecture, governance and a high-performing team while staying closely involved with code and operations.

The successful candidate will own Kubernetes on bare-metal Linux, drive reliability, and collaborate with researchers to translate workloads into robust infrastructure, balancing strategic direction with