HPC Infrastructure & Cluster Engineer

Team: Enterprise Services

Location: Springfield, VA

Commitment: Full-Time Employee

Workplace Type: onsite

Salary:

Job Overview:

We are seeking an Infrastructure & Cluster Engineer to manage the administration, health, and performance of the foundational compute environmen. In this role, you will be responsible for the end-to-end administration of a dedicated customer compute cluster. Your primary mission is to ensure a highly available, secure, and optimized hardware foundation. By maintaining a robust infrastructure, you will directly contribute to the critical technology integration and performance engineering efforts, ensuring a highly reliable platform for integrating and executing complex customer workloads.

Here, your work is more than a job- it's a journey in innovation. With opportunities to work on high-impact projects, access to the latest technologies, and a culture that thrives on creativity and collaboration, INflow Federal is where your expertise can truly make a difference.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities:

• Cluster Administration: Manage the day-to-day operations of the customer compute cluster, including Linux operating system administration, hardware monitoring, patching, and system upgrades.
• Resource and Job Management: Configure, maintain, and optimize workload management and orchestration platforms, utilizing the Run:AI job scheduler to ensure efficient distribution of intensive AI/ML workloads across the cluster.
• Infrastructure Optimization: Tune cluster performance at the hardware, operating system, and network levels to maximize compute efficiency and data throughput for customer workloads.
• Storage and Network Management: Administer storage solutions and high-speed networking fabrics. Support the transition to and ongoing management of an InfiniBand GPU-to-GPU network infrastructure to minimize latency for distributed operations. 
• Environment Configuration: Partner with technology integration teams to provision specific environments, dependencies, and container platforms, specifically leveraging Red Hat OpenShift, required for seamless customer model deployment.
• Security and Compliance: Ensure all infrastructure components remain compliant with federal security standards, implementing strict access controls and maintaining system accreditations.
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Required Skills:

• Experience: 5+ years of experience in Linux systems administration and infrastructure management with a specific focus on high-performance computing environments.
• Technical Skills:
• Expertise in managing bare-metal servers, enterprise storage arrays, and advanced network configurations (Experience with InfiniBand).
• Strong proficiency with workload managers, job schedulers, and AI orchestration tools (e.g., Run:AI, SLURM).
• Hands-on experience with enterprise container orchestration platforms, specifically OpenShift or Kubernetes.
• Experience writing automation and configuration scripts (e.g., Bash, Python) to streamline cluster maintenance.
• Troubleshooting Focus: Proven ability to diagnose and resolve complex hardware, network, and OS-level issues.
 

Preferred Skills:

• Familiarity with parallel file systems and high-throughput storage architectures.
• Prior experience engineering or managing high-speed GPU-to-GPU communication topologies.

• Some travel may be required: Must have valid driver’s license and transportation. This is subject to change at the direction of the customer.
• If accommodation is needed with your application or the interview process for applicants with disabilities, please contact Human Resources at 703-594-8601.
• Candidate must have the ability to lift up to 50 lbs.
• Must have willingness to perform duties not listed in the job description as required by INflow and our customer.