Senior HPC Systems Engineer – Research Computing Backbone

SLAC; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 168,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

PTO

Health benefits

Tuition assistance

403(b) plan

Mental health programs

Commuter benefits

Job summary

Stanford Research Computing seeks a talented systems engineer to strengthen the backbone of our multi-petabyte research computing environment. You will steward bastion and jump hosts, manage FLEXlm license services, and lead the central observability stack while supporting a co-location initiative and replication across sites.

You’ll also lead container hosts, backbone services, and deployment projects, ensuring security, resiliency, and proper documentation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and ten years of relevant experience or equivalent.
• Experience with complex, multi-system platforms and coordinating across vendors.
• Ability to design and implement disaster recovery and business continuation plans.
• Proficiency in multiple programming languages and operating systems.
• Experience leading large deployment projects and cross-team collaboration.
• Knowledge of security trends and best practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead bastion hosts administration, hardening and high availability across data centers.
• Operate and improve FLEXlm license servers and related services.
• Oversee central observability services (Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, XDMoD).
• Support co-location design, production hand-off and remote replication.
• Manage container hosts, backbone services, and Ansible/Git-driven config.
• Establish and enforce secure build standards and access lifecycle.
• Document core service requirements and recovery procedures.
• Plan hardware lifecycle and capital needs with platform leads.
• Engage with vendors to triage issues, manage RMAs and warranties.

Skills

Multi-system platforms

Disaster recovery

System deployment

Programming languages

Security best practices

Vendor coordination

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Ansible

Git

Job description

Stanford Research Computing seeks a talented systems engineer to strengthen the backbone of our multi-petabyte research computing environment. You will steward bastion and jump hosts, manage FLEXlm license services, and lead the central observability stack while supporting a co-location initiative and replication across sites.

You’ll also lead container hosts, backbone services, and deployment projects, ensuring security, resiliency, and proper documentation.