Role: Senior DevOps Engineer – HPC / EDA / SLURM Contract Location – Vancouver Work mode Hybrid (3 days office per week)

Key Responsibilities
HPC / EDA Platform Operations
- Support and administer SLURM-based HPC compute environments, including partition configuration and migration planning
- Plan and execute HPC/EDA compute and storage infrastructure migrations across datacenters
- Develop migration strategies and evaluate implementation options, risks, dependencies, and operational tradeoffs
- Author formal Method of Procedure (MOP) documents and runbooks for infrastructure changes and service cutovers
- Coordinate cross-functionally with EDA/SPE teams, storage teams, and IDAM to deliver coordinated platform changes
- 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 Automation & Infrastructure as Code
- Develop, maintain, and extend Ansible playbooks and roles for Linux system setup, authentication, and platform configuration
- Ensure multi-version Ansible playbook compatibility across SLES 12 and SLES 15
- Manage Git repositories and Artifactory artifact storage; migrate large binaries and configuration artifacts out of source control
- Contribute GitHub pull requests, conduct code reviews, and manage inner-source infrastructure repositories
- Drive production environment changes through change management workflows using ServiceNow Identity & Access Management
- 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
- Validate authentication methods and access behavior across HPC compute and storage environments
- Extend SSSD-based corporate authentication to current compute environments and author corresponding Ansible automation Monitoring, Logging & Operational Readiness
- Assess and implement log management strategies, including evaluation of Splunk integration for HPC system logs
- 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

📌 Senior DevOps Engineer – HPC (Vancouver)
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