Senior Unix SRE for HPC & Grid Orchestration

Synopsys, Inc.; Sunnyvale (CA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Synopsys is seeking an experienced infrastructure engineer to support large-scale Unix/Linux environments used by thousands of engineers. You will manage workload schedulers, diagnose complex production issues, and drive automation to improve reliability across global teams.

The role is hybrid with flexibility to work from Sunnyvale and remotely. The ideal candidate has 7+ years of hands-on experience, strong scripting skills, and familiarity with HPC/grid ecosystems and workload managers like

Qualifications

• 7+ years of hands-on Unix/Linux infrastructure experience in production.
• Deep knowledge of Unix/Linux OS, administration, performance troubleshooting.
• Experience supporting large-scale infrastructure used by engineering teams.
• Ability to diagnose and resolve complex production problems.
• Strong scripting and automation with shell, Python, Perl, or similar.
• Experience with HPC/grid computing and large-scale engineering environments.
• Hands-on with workload managers like LSF, PlatformLSF, Slurm, PBSPro, GridEngine.

Responsibilities

• Administer and troubleshoot large-scale Unix/Linux environments.
• Support grid and HPC infrastructures with workload schedulers like IBM Spectrum LSF, Slurm, PBSPro, GridEngine.
• Diagnose and resolve production issues affecting job execution, scheduling, resource utilization, and system performance.
• Maintain and improve reliability of source code and development platforms (GitHub, GitLab, Perforce, Artifactory).
• Build automation, scripts, tools, and operational documentation to reduce repetitive work and improve reliability.
• Participate in production support and on-call rotation across globally distributed systems.
• Conduct root-cause analyses and drive corrective actions to prevent recurrence.
• Assist capacity planning via system health monitoring and trend analysis.

Skills

Unix/Linux admin

Performance troubleshooting

HPC/Grid computing

LSF/Slurm/PBSPro

Scripting (Shell/Python)

Incident management

Colaboration across time zones

Tools

GitHub

GitLab

Perforce

Artifactory

IBMSpectrumLSF

PlatformLSF

Slurm

PBSPro

GridEngine

Job description

Synopsys is seeking an experienced infrastructure engineer to support large-scale Unix/Linux environments used by thousands of engineers. You will manage workload schedulers, diagnose complex production issues, and drive automation to improve reliability across global teams.

The role is hybrid with flexibility to work from Sunnyvale and remotely. The ideal candidate has 7+ years of hands-on experience, strong scripting skills, and familiarity with HPC/grid ecosystems and workload managers like