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Peraton · 3 weeks ago

Senior HPC DevOps Engineer

US-MD-College Park

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$146K/yr - $234K/yr

12+ years exp

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe. They are seeking a Senior HPC DevOps Engineer to own the operations and automation lifecycle for an existing HPC/AI compute cluster, working closely with team members and a Maryland-based customer.

Information TechnologyRobotics

No H1B

Security Clearance Required

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Own and manage automation workflows, including job templates, inventories, credentials, RBAC configurations, execution environments, and promotion across environments

Enforce desired state across cluster services via code-driven configuration; implement drift detection and alert on deviations; reconcile runtime state vs configured state

Build and maintain an automated node bootstrap workflow that installs/configures the OS, applies security and performance baselines, enrolls nodes into the scheduler and shared storage ecosystem, validates hardware and service readiness (CPU, network, accelerator, storage mounts), and reports pass/fail results

Implement rolling maintenance and patch automation to meet defined vulnerability response SLAs. Maintain version-controlled container build definitions and integrate image scanning into the build/release lifecycle

Ensure automation and operational workflows emit auditable logs to centralized analytics and integrate with metrics/alerting to enable reliable incident response, proactive detection, and safe auto-remediation

Automate responses to common incidents (hung nodes, storage performance alarms, image vulnerabilities, hardware failures) leveraging out-of-band hardware management interfaces and standardized runbooks

Keep runbooks and operational documentation versioned alongside automation and publish operator guidance to the orgs documentation platform

Qualification

HPC operationsAnsible automationLinux systemsIncident responseContainer toolingGit workflowTechnical certificationBare-metal provisioningPerformance troubleshootingDocumentation practices

Required

12+ years of experience and a BS in computer science, IT, or related technical field, MS and 10 years of experience, or a Ph.D. with 8 years of experience. Four years of additional experience is required in lieu of a Bachelors' degree for a total of 16 years of experience

7+ years in Linux systems / SRE / DevOps, including production cluster operations in an HPC or large-scale compute environment

3+ years of experience building and operating Ansible automation at scale (roles/collections, idempotency, inventories, secrets)

Strong Linux hardening & compliance fundamentals (SELinux/AppArmor, SSH key automation, baseline config management)

Demonstrated experience operating or automating clustered compute environments (HPC, large Linux farms, or similar)

Hands-on experience with container tooling in Linux environments, including image lifecycle/versioning

Familiarity with incident response and runbook-driven operations; ability to automate common remediations

Strong Git workflow and documentation practices

Must hold at least one active/current technical certification from the following- Systems engineering (e.g., INCOSE), Information security (e.g., CISSP), Networking (e.g., CCNA), System Administration (e.g., RHCE, MCSE), Virtualization (e.g., VCP), IT systems management (e.g., ITIL), Project management (e.g., PMP, Agile)

This position requires an active/current TS/SCI w/ Polygraph