HPC Linux Operations & Infrastructure Engineer
Westbury Partners Sydney, AustraliaHPC Linux Operations & Infrastructure Engineer
Provide hands-on operational support for large-scale Linux HPC environments, troubleshooting complex infrastructure, automating recurring tasks, maintaining reliability, and supporting compute, storage, networking, and research workloads.
What You'll Do:
- Provide front-line operational support across 24/7 Linux HPC environments.
- Troubleshoot compute, storage, networking, and interconnect issues.
- Respond rapidly to infrastructure alerts and problem reports.
- Develop automation for diagnostics, troubleshooting, and recurring tasks.
- Monitor system performance, reliability, and infrastructure health.
- Support global infrastructure projects and production environments.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Support HPC compute, storage, and high-performance network infrastructure.
- Troubleshoot parallel filesystems, batch schedulers, and RDMA fabrics.
- Diagnose complex production issues and perform root cause analysis.
- Write code using Go, Python, C, or similar languages.
- Develop tools for operational automation and system monitoring.
- Manage the complete lifecycle of technical incidents and problems.
- Participate in maintenance operations, including scheduled evening and weekend windows.
- Collaborate with engineering teams and external technology vendors.
- Maintain comprehensive systems and user documentation.
- Participate in an operational on-call rotation.
Why Join Us:
- Work hands-on with sophisticated, large-scale HPC infrastructure.
- Solve challenging and unpredictable operational problems every day.
- Gain exposure to compute, storage, networking, and automation technologies.
- Contribute to global infrastructure projects and production environments.
- Work closely with technical teams supporting demanding research workloads.
- Build expertise across a diverse and constantly evolving technology landscape.
About You:
- 2+ years of professional Linux systems experience.
- Strong programming or scripting skills in Go, Python, C, or similar.
- Genuine interest in hands-on operational engineering.
- HPC experience is advantageous but not essential.
- Strong troubleshooting and root cause analysis capabilities.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Comfortable managing multiple projects and competing priorities.
- Strong collaboration skills and a sense of urgency.
- Willing to participate in evening, weekend, and on-call support.
- Reliable, adaptable, and comfortable working in a fast-paced environment.
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