Bangalore work from office only

Contract 2 hire

Key Responsibilities

Linux Skills

- Familiarity with one, or more, shell environments (BASH, sh, tcsh, ksh, etc.)

- Experience administering Linux (boot process, file systems, kernel modules)

- Familiarity with core OS services such as: SSH, telnet, FTP, NFS, DNS, DHCP, Samba, LDAP

- Familiarity with networking tools (ping, tracert, tracemon, tcpdump, etc.)

- Understanding of the OSI model and related concepts

Cluster Administration

- Install, configure, and maintain Linux-based compute and login nodes.

- Manage workload schedulers (e.g., Slurm, PBS Pro) and optimize job throughput and queue performance.

- Oversee software provisioning, OS image deployment, and firmware updates across thousands of nodes.

- Manage HPC management frameworks such as HPE Performance Cluster Manager (HPCM), Bright Cluster Manager, or equivalent.

Networking & Interconnect

- Monitor and tune high-speed fabrics such as InfiniBand (HDR/NDR) including subnet managers (UFM, OpenSM) and link diagnostics.

- Need to ensure low latency, congestion-free data paths across compute and storage.

Monitoring & Automation

- Implement comprehensive cluster monitoring using tools like Grafana, Prometheus, Nagios or Opsramp.





- Develop automation and orchestration scripts (Bash, Python, Ansible) for provisioning, health checks, and performance tuning.

- Proactively identify performance bottlenecks and propose corrective actions.

Security & Compliance

- Maintain secure authentication, role-based access, and audit controls across nodes.

- Apply patches, enforce configuration management, and ensure compliance with organizational IT policies.

Qualifications

Essential:

- Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related technical field.

- Strong experience in Linux systems administration (RHEL/SLES/Ubuntu) in an HPC or data center environment.

- Minimum 5 years of experience in HPC administration is valuable.

- Hands-on expertise with Slurm, PBS Pro job schedulers.

- Familiarity with InfiniBand networking

- Proficiency in scripting (Bash, Python, or Ansible) and version control (Git).

- Good knowledge about the HPE Proliant Gen 10 or Gen11 servers is preferable.

Desirable:

- Experience with containerized HPC (Singularity/Apptainer/Docker) and Kubernetes integration.

- Basic understanding of VMware is valuable.

Familiarity with Lustre/GPFS filesystems

📌 HPC Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 Ifinsol Global
📍 Bengaluru