Duration: 12 Months Contract

Client is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer supporting our High Performance Computing (HPC) and Electronic Design Automation (EDA) infrastructure team. This role will work directly within the IT Datacenter (ITDC) organization and is expected to operate independently at a senior level with minimal ramp-up time. The ideal candidate brings strong hands-on experience with Linux HPC environments, infrastructure automation, SLURM workload management, datacenter migration execution, and enterprise identity integration.

Support and administer SLURM-based HPC compute environments, including partition configuration and migration planning

Develop migration strategies and evaluate implementation options, risks, dependencies, and operational tradeoffs

Verify storage volumes, application access, and service continuity following migrations or infrastructure changes

Define HPC storage service tiers and gather performance and capacity requirements for EDA workloads

Linux Systems Engineering & OS Deployment

Administer SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 12 and SLES 15 systems in a production HPC environment

Build and maintain custom Linux OS images and installation media using Kiwi NG and related tooling

Enable and maintain bare-metal provisioning workflows via RackN / Digital Rebar Provision for SLES and ESXi deployments

Provision and configure VMware vSphere virtual machines for HPC service workloads

Troubleshoot production issues in Linux HPC operational scripts, services, and system daemons

Develop, maintain, and extend Ansible playbooks and roles for Linux system setup, authentication, and platform configuration





migrate large binaries and configuration artifacts out of source control

Drive production workplace changes through change management workflows using ServiceNow

Integrate and configure enterprise identity systems including Okta, Active Directory, LDAP, NIS, VAS, and SSSD for Linux/HPC environments

Audit and reconcile Linux user and group identity data (UID/GID) across multiple directory and authentication domains

Extend SSSD-based corporate authentication to new compute environments and author corresponding Ansible automation

Monitoring, Logging & Operational Readiness

Investigate and remediate operational issues in production Linux services (VNC, NIS, AutoFS, Zabbix, etc.)

Produce technical documentation, architecture diagrams, implementation guides, and end-user instructions in Confluence

5+ years of experience in a DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Linux Systems Engineering role

Demonstrated experience supporting EDA or scientific computing environments

Proven ability to plan and execute datacenter or infrastructure migrations with minimal disruption

Familiarity with enterprise Linux identity and authentication stacks (SSSD, LDAP, AD, NIS, Okta)

Ability to author formal technical documentation (MOPs, runbooks, architecture diagrams)





Core Technical Skills

SLURM, HPC compute/storage administration, EDA infrastructure, datacenter migrations

Linux / OS: SLES 12, SLES 15, ESXi 8.0, Kiwi NG ISO creation, Linux system services, acct/pacct, dracut

Provisioning / Automation: Ansible (playbooks, roles, multi-version), RackN / Digital Rebar Provision, VMware vSphere

NetApp SVM, NFS, AutoFS, RootSquash, storage tier design, IOPS/capacity planning

DevOps / Source Control: Git, GitHub, Artifactory, inner-source repository management

Monitoring / Logging: Scripting / Languages: Ansible (YAML), Python, Perl (debugging), Bash

ServiceNow (change requests), MOP authoring, Confluence, Jira, technical diagramming.

Experience with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 12 and/or 15 in an enterprise environment

Familiarity with RackN / Digital Rebar Provision for bare-metal OS deployment

Experience migrating configuration artifacts and binaries to Artifactory

Background in semiconductor, storage, or high-tech manufacturing IT environments.

Bachelors Degree

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