Sr. DevOps Engineer (GPU Bare Metal)

Quantum World Technologies Inc.; New Jersey; On-site; USD 85,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company in New Jersey is seeking engineers skilled in GPU Bare Metal and GPU Virtual Machine systems. Responsibilities include orchestrating bare metal Linux systems, automating deployments, and collaborating on AI/ML workloads. Ideal candidates should have deep Linux system experience and strong automation skills. This contract position targets mid-senior level professionals in the IT services and consulting industry.

Qualifications

• Proven ability to orchestrate bare metal Linux systems at scale.
• Deep Linux systems experience including troubleshooting and configuration management.
• Strong automation mindset with expert knowledge in orchestration tools.

Responsibilities

• Provision and automate GPU Bare Metal deployments.
• Assist customer support and CloudOps teams during escalations.
• Work on performance testing, analysis, and monitoring.

Skills

Linux orchestration

Automation with MaaS, Salt, Chef, Ansible or Puppet

High Performance Computing (HPC)

Communication skills

Network engineering experience with VyOS

Understanding of QEMU, KVM, Linux kernel and libvirt

Proficiency in C

Job description

We need engineers skilled in multiple areas here to support both GPU Bare Metal and GPU VM products. We also need engineers skilled in AI/ML DevOps and Linux Sysadmins.

GPU Bare Metal

Required Skills

• Proven ability to orchestrate bare metal Linux systems at scale including building automation for firmware updates, BIOS config management, and configuring PXE environments.
• Deep Linux systems experience including troubleshooting network interfaces, developing and applying configuration management, security best practices, and monitoring and alerting.
• Strong automation mindset. Expert knowledge in 1 or more orchestration tools such as MaaS, Salt, Chef, Ansible or Puppet.
• Strong communication skills. Your job will involve writing detailed documentation for others to pick up or leading knowledge sharing sessions with operations teams.
• Hands‑on experience in High Performance Computing (HPC) clustered environments from Nvidia or AMD. Experience in performing automated wide‑scale testing on NCCL or other frameworks.
• Network engineering experience with VyOS platforms.

What You'll Be Working On:

• Provisioning and automating GPU Bare Metal deployments.
• DevOps – Assist customer support and CloudOps teams with GPU specific knowledge/debugging during customer escalations.
• Performance testing, analysis and monitoring.
• Firmware, BIOS, Kernel upgrades and testing.

GPU Virtual Machines

Required Skills

• Strong understanding of Linux based operating systems.
• Deep experience with the internals of QEMU, KVM, Linux kernel and libvirt. Strong proficiency in C.
• Strong knowledge of DO’s proprietary services and how they intersect with our virtualization stack.

What You'll Be Working On:

• Accelerate the virtualization of next‑generation GPU enabled platforms that power AI/ML workloads.
• Work with hardware engineering teams and vendors to validate GPU fabric performance. Optimize performance while maintaining DO’s high security standards.
• Collaborate with open source Linux, QEMU and libvirt communities to drive the evolution of Linux virtualization technologies and incorporate them into the DO fleet.
• Backport, build, and deploy software patches in order to support new features, backport bug fixes, and resolve security issues.

Seniority level

Mid‑Senior level

Employment type

Contract

Job function

Business Development

Industries

IT Services and IT Consulting