HPC Cloud Engineer

Description

The company is a technology firm that serves the US federal government. More than 13,000 people work across defense, national security, public safety, civilian, and military health clients.

This role supports a client at Hill AFB in Utah, focusing on high-performance computing infrastructure for compute-heavy mission workloads.

You will work alongside a senior cloud and HPC engineer on cluster operations, job scheduling, and GPU-accelerated workloads, and take on more design work over time.

The ideal candidate has solid hands-on cloud engineering experience, some exposure to HPC job scheduling or GPU computing, and works well in a fast-moving, mission-focused setting.

Responsibilities

• Keep HPC clusters running day to day.
• Run job schedulers such as Slurm and PBS, and troubleshoot job failures.
• Help provision AWS ParallelCluster and/or AWS Batch environments.
• Configure GPU software and tune it for acceleration.
• Help set up and troubleshoot CUDA and cuDNN.
• Track CPU and GPU utilization across node pools.
• Help connect HPC compute to data pipelines built on Kafka, Airflow, and Spark.
• Assist with AWS data services including EMR, Redshift, and Glue.
• Help manage infrastructure as code for cluster provisioning using Terraform and Ansible.
• Take part in sprints, standups, and retrospectives.
• Write and maintain configuration records, runbooks, and troubleshooting guides.
• Work with the senior cloud and HPC engineer and the data engineering teams.

Requirements

• Two years of cloud or infrastructure engineering experience.
• Exposure to HPC schedulers or GPU-accelerated computing.
• Understanding of DevOps practices such as CI/CD, IaC, and GitOps.
• Experience with job schedulers such as Slurm and PBS.
• Proficiency in Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
• Preferred: CompTIA Security+ or an equivalent certification.
• Bonus: familiarity with Kafka, Airflow, or Spark.
• Bonus: familiarity with current GPU hardware and/or CUDA and cuDNN.
• Bonus: working knowledge of AWS ParallelCluster or AWS Batch, or the ability to learn them quickly.
• Bonus: experience with AWS data services such as EMR, Redshift, and Glue.
• Bonus: AWS certifications.
• Bonus: a bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field.
• Bonus: experience in classified environments such as NIPR, SIPR, or JWICS.
• Comfortable with a centralized vision and a decentralized command structure.
• Strong Agile mindset.
• Takes ownership of assigned cluster operations.
• Fail-fast, fail-forward approach.
• Eager to grow HPC and GPU expertise.

Conditions

Based at Hill AFB in Utah.

Active Secret clearance required; Top Secret preferred.

Base pay for roles in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and the District of Columbia is $106,300 to $206,200 USD.

Pay is set by location, role, skill set, and experience, and local law requires these pay ranges to be shared in the states listed.

Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis with no fixed deadline.

The company is committed to equal opportunity and an inclusive workplace.

Benefits

• A broad set of benefits.
• Hands-on experience, certifications, and industry training to help you grow.