HPC-Focused IT DevOps Engineer

Summary

Posted: Oct 8, 2024

Weekly Hours: 40

Role Number:200568652

As a DevOps engineer on Apple's Hardware Methodologies, Tool, & Solutions (HMTS) Platform team, you play a crucial role in bridging the gap in traditional Information Technology (IT) infrastructure development and operations. Your work is instrumental in providing the world's best design environment for Hardware Engineering, aligning with our mission to lead in hardware innovation.

Description

In this role, you will be responsible for designing, developing, testing, and deploying infrastructure products that are at the core of our operations. Your work helps us plan, code, build, test, deploy, operate, and monitor our Infrastructure-as-Code solutions for High-Performance Compute (HPC) server infrastructure.

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• Bachelor's or master's degree in CS or equivalent practical experience
• Linux administration - Skilled (5-10 years)
• The majority of our infrastructure, including all HPC and core infrastructure, is Linux OS-based.

• Bachelor's or master's degree in CS or equivalent practical experience
• We'd like to focus on someone who has experience in our skill areas, is willing to learn our environment, and can be developed into an architect-level contributor over several years.
• Linux administration
• The majority of our infrastructure, including all HPC and core infrastructure, is Linux OS-based.
• Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (Ansible, etc) - Skilled (3-5 years)
• The team has worked to deliver tremendous gains in HPC deployment automation. An HPC-focused engineer will need to maintain and improve upon this automation. Additionally, we will look for them to develop new automation, adding customer and partner value.
• Scheduler (SLURM, LSF, etc) - Familiar (1-3 years)
• SLURM will continue to be critical in HPC. While it may seem essential to hire someone more skilled, we feel that we can develop a new hire based on the team's knowledge.
• Virtualization - Familiar (1-3 years)
• Virtualizing compute nodes is our next opportunity for advancement in HPC. Virtualization offers benefits for FEA engineers and our cluster management.
• HPC - Familiar (5-8 years)
• Knowledge of developing scalable HPC solutions to support ongoing business growth and demand and experience maintaining and configuring high-performance compute environments that includes cloud-based systems, as well as local physical and virtual systems.
• About our ideal candidate:
• Experienced with schedulers such as SLURM
• Experience with parallel computing paradigms (MPI, etc.)
• Experience with automation and configuration management tools such as Ansible.
• Experience developing and securing containerized applications and HPC environments.
• Effective communication skills
• Customer-focused mindset
• Driven to automate repetitive tasks
• Interpersonal skills that enable you to influence others and negotiate positive outcomes for customers
• Time management and prioritization skills
• Willingness to learn
• Focused on continuous self-improvement, teamwork, innovation, and results
• Capable of maintaining a professional demeanor in any situation

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