Senior HPC & Observability Infrastructure Engineer

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Palo Alto (CA)

On-site

USD 168,000 - 200,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

PTO 18+ days

Tuition assistance

403(b) plan

Flexible work options

Job summary

Stanford Research Computing is seeking a systems engineer to steward the backbone of the campus computing environment. You will harden bastion hosts, operate FLEXlm license servers, and lead the observability stack and remote data center replication.

The role emphasizes resilience, security, and scalable infrastructure across multiple data centers. Working with a team of researchers and IT professionals, you will drive hardware lifecycle, automation with Ansible, and vendor engagements to ensure

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree and ten years of relevant experience.
Extensive experience with complex, multi-system platforms and vendors.
Notable experience coordinating multi-system and computing environments in independent facilities.
Expert ability to program in multiple programming languages and manage large deployment projects.

Responsibilities

Lead the administration, hardening, and modernization of bastion and jump hosts across multiple data centers.
Operate and improve primary and secondary FLEXlm license servers behind research software.
Lead central observability service and related servers: Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, XDMoD, telemetry.
Support a co-location initiative from design through production hand-off and replication in a remote facility.
Lead container hosts and backbone services, with Ansible and Git-based configuration management.
Establish and enforce security standards in line with university and contractual requirements.