Linux Compute Farm Engineer

Client

Ourclientisaglobaltechnologycompany

Role

OurclientislookingforanexperiencedLinuxInfrastructureEngineer(DevOps/HPC).

Responsibilities

• Provide Day to Day Farm support to Linux based Compute Farm (OnPrem & Cloud)
• Able to support the system upgrades and workload migrations, acceptance testing, and maintenance.
• Able to understand R&D specific requirements and current technology trends.
• Virtualization & Cloud knowledge would be an advantage.

Specific Ongoing Duties

• Provides system/farm, storage, and networking expertise for timely resolution of R&D user issues in Compute farms.
• Work closely with R&D user community to improve user productivity and farm resource utilization.
• Work with M&A team to bring workload to the Farm.
• Regular knowledge transfer to direct team and cross-functional peers in IT.
• Automate the repeated activities to create bandwidth.
• Work with global teams in different time zones to achieve common goals.

Requirements

• Four Year degree (Computer Science, Information Systems or relational functional field) and/or equivalent combination of education or work experience.
• 6-8 years of professional experience in the field of Information Technology and preferably in EDA industry.
• Experience with Linux system admin, performance fine tuning, compiler optimization, kernel, TCP/IP fine tuning. Knowledge of CPU/memory internals and processes would be an advantage.
• Operating system platform technology knowledge from major vendors and open source solutions, including Linux, LSF, Slurm, ElasticSearch, Jenkins, Source Code Control systems, etc.
• Should be able to learn Agentic AI and create Agent for all repeated and automation tasks.
• Experience with Cloud Computing architecture in a hybrid model will be a significant benefit.
• Should have good scripting knowledge and DevOps skills for automation tasks.
• Hands on experience and Good knowledge with troubleshooting various user job issues in a Compute farm.
• Should have good communication skills both verbal and written.
• Should be self driven and dynamic in a fast paced environment.

The Rewards

This is a contract role and comes with a competitive daily rate.

Contact

Please contact MichaelBrennan at Software Placement on (0) or email your CV in Word/pdf format to .