Linux System Engineer
- Vancouver, BC, Canada
$60 to $65 CAD / hour · Contract
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- Pay
- $60 to $65 CAD / hour
- Job type
- Contract
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- Experience
- 5+ years of experience in a DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Linux Systems Engineering role
- Posting language
- English
- Posted
Original job description
Job Title: Senior DevOps Engineer with Linux and HPC
Location: Vancouver, BC
Work Arrangement: Hybrid-3 days/ week
Employment Type: Contract
Pay Rate: CAD 60-65/hour
Application Deadline: Nov. 15th, 2026
Skills:
- 5+ years of experience in a DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Linux Systems Engineering role
- Hands-on HPC cluster administration experience, including SLURM or equivalent workload managers
- Demonstrated experience supporting EDA or scientific computing environments
- Strong Ansible automation skills with production-grade playbook and role development
- Experience with bare-metal provisioning tools (RackN, Cobbler, or equivalent)
- Proven ability to plan and execute datacenter or infrastructure migrations with minimal disruption
- Familiarity with enterprise Linux identity and authentication stacks (SSSD, LDAP, AD, NIS, Okta)
- Experience with NetApp or comparable enterprise storage platforms in HPC contexts
- Experience with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 12 and/or 15 in an enterprise environment
- Ability to author formal technical documentation (MOPs, runbooks, architecture diagrams)
- Strong written and verbal communication skills; capable of coordinating across multiple teams
EEOC Compliance:
We are an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment.
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Responsibilities
Administer HPC clusters and support EDA or scientific computing environments, using workload managers, enterprise storage, Linux identity systems, and automation tools. Plan and execute infrastructure migrations with minimal disruption, and produce technical documentation such as methods of procedure, runbooks, and architecture diagrams.
Requirements
Requires 5+ years of experience in DevOps, platform engineering, or Linux systems engineering, including hands-on HPC administration and strong production-grade Ansible development. Candidates should have experience with bare-metal provisioning, infrastructure migrations, enterprise Linux authentication and storage, and SLES 12 and/or 15, along with strong communication and documentation skills.
Skills
- Linux Systems Engineering
- DevOps
- HPC Cluster Administration
- SLURM
- EDA And Scientific Computing
- Ansible Automation
- Bare-Metal Provisioning
- Infrastructure Migration
- Linux Identity And Authentication
- SSSD
- LDAP
- Active Directory
- NetApp Storage
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
- Technical Documentation
- Cross-Team Communication
Visa sponsorship
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Categories
- Technology
- Engineering
- Software
Keywords
- Linux
- DevOps
- Platform Engineering
- HPC
- SLURM
- EDA
- Scientific Computing
- Ansible
- Bare-Metal Provisioning
- RackN
- Cobbler
- Datacenter Migration
- Infrastructure Migration
- SSSD
- LDAP
- Active Directory
- NIS
- Okta
- NetApp
- Enterprise Storage
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
- SLES 12
- SLES 15
- MOPs
- Runbooks
- Architecture Diagrams
- Workload Managers